Production history management of packaged consumer products

摘要

A Packaging System comprising: €¢ a Packaging Line configured to produce and pack Primary Packages to form Secondary Packages, Secondary Packages being produced in a sequential order and formed with Primary Packages provided in a sequential order; and €¢ a Package Tracing System configured to allow Primary Packages to be traced; wherein the Package Tracing System is configured to: €¢ compute, for each Secondary Package, a Primary Package Sequence Number for the first Primary Package in the Secondary Package and a Primary Package Sequence Number for the last Primary Package in the Secondary Package; €¢ compute, for each Secondary Package, a Primary Package Production Time for the first Primary Package in the Secondary Package and a Primary Package Production Time for the last Primary Package in the Secondary Package, based on the corresponding Primary Package Sequence Numbers; and €¢ store in a repository Primary Package Production Times for the first and the last Primary Packages in the Secondary Packages, along with associated Secondary Package Identifiers.