Marking an article with an expiration date.

摘要

An apparatus (100) to mark items (104) in a production line, the apparatus (100) comprising: a marker (112) marking an article (104); a support data storage (106) having stored thereon expiration information indicating an expiration date corresponding to a date range of manufacturing and a processor (110) in data communication with the marker (112) and supported data storage (106), the processor (110) configured to receive information production dates associated with an article (104) to identify a range of dates corresponding to the date information making manufacture; to recover support data storage (106) information expiration dates corresponding to the date range of manufacturing and to make the counter (112) mark the article (104) with a mark (105) representing the information expiration dates, manufacturing and characterized in that: the date range produced includes a plurality of production dates or date retrieve information expiration dates comprises accessing a calendar (108) containing, for each of a plurality of intervals manufacturing date corresponding to the date range of manufacturing and the apparatus comprises a conveyor (102) for conveying articles (104) to the counter (112) expiration.