Graphene^®     Beverage Packaging Experts

HLAN Networking of the Electronic 

Inspectors

Graphene™ delivers also turnkey complete systems networking all existing electronic inspectors in a Packaging Company.    On the base of hardware by Cisco™, hp™, NETGEAR™ or any other choice, we can always integrate all inspection equipments into the Packaging factory own mainframe or let them be accessed by individual terminals.   

What is the most comfortable way to maximise Production and Quality levels of the Food and Beverage Packaging Lines ?    Three different answers exist, following the rationale of the different roles played in the Food and Beverage Packaging process:

1. Maintenance Staff rationale

An example of the rationale driving the Staff involved in Maintenance activities, can be recognized in their necessity to control constantly and parameterize all the inspection equipments in each Packaging Line.  As an example, all models of electronic inspectors based on cameras:

• Empty Bottle Inspectors (EBI) model InLine™ or InLine, 
• Final Inspection systems FinalView™, 
• VISION™ Full Bottle Inspectors,
• SX™ Bottle Sorting units,  

need frequent controls and readjustments of their sensitivity, of the position of the inspection masks and, due to the conveyor belt progressive extension, also of the synchronisation.

But, there are also other relevant reasons: to reject the minimum means to increase the Production efficiency much more than the mere increase due to the elimination of the False Rejects.   High reject ratios means fallen bottles, jams and Machines’ downtimes (examples: Filler, Labellers, Craters, Decraters, Palletisers,etc.).   Let frequent activities like the software and parametric maintenances or the typical control of the rejects become a comfortable routine.   

2. Production Staff rationale

An example of the rationale driving the Staff involved in Production activities, can be recognized in their necessity to constantly control, record, log, print and save data.   Data describing at constant intervals, as an example associated to the change of Staff Shift or a batch of production, what rejects, originated by what of the individual inspections, reduced with losses the Production efficiency.    What cause, when and along how many seconds, created losses after having introduced a Production downtime.  Only objective numbers and records related to amounts of stops, caps, closures, glass or PET bottles, cans, lids, crates or cases, let facts speak, caring the vital interests of the Production Professionals.

   NETGEAR™ is our standard hardware, aside of hp™ and Cisco™ (  Netgear/2014)

3. Staff Training Dept. rationale

An example of the rationale driving the Staff involved in Training activities, can be recognized in their necessity to pass from theory to practice.   Whioever has observed the preference of the Staff involved in Production (Operators and Supervisors) and Maintenance, for the practical activities and exercises, rather than hours of theory.    But, training Production and Maintenance Staff in the running Packaging Line, due to the extremely noisy environment, means that just a few attending the course shall really hear all what is being in the meantime explained.  

The best way to reach all these goals is just one: the safest Ethernet cable networking of all of the electronic inspection equipments to:

1. your own laptop (or, your Company desktop),
2. Maintenance Department's computer,
3. Production Manager's computer,
4. Packaging Line Manager's computer,

without any interference, no software nor hardware, into the Company own pre-existing Ethernet network.   The best way to cut losses and increase the Production efficiency, is the most comfortable one: from Your chair.  Supervisiong it all in the concentration only available in your Office, far from the difficult and noisy environment of the Packaging Lines.   To train Production and Maintenance Staff in the running Packaging Line, due to the extremely noisy environment, mean that just a few attending the course shall really hear all what is being in the meantime explained.  

Turnkey Networking Solutions

And, as a consequence, we master execution and turnkey delivery of the entire hardware and software system, including high-Quality Switches, Modem-routers, Category 6 Ethernet cable, etc.    Our hardware choice is NETGEAR™.   

Have Your Company’s IT Department any preference toward some different brands or standards, like Cisco™ or hp™ ?   

Do you favour VLAN-solutions, integrated in your Company pre-existing network ?       It’ll be for us a pleasure to tailor hardware and software components following your preferences.

Pricing

Systems with these potentialities are normally offered for (80,000-100,000)$.   So expensive to cost as much as an additional, non-existing, electronic inspector.   Rare Bottlers may afford such an investment.     Our viewpoint is that what the Electronic Inspectors in each Packaging Line really need is ...You.    They need your maximally concentrated attention and know-how, to let you see what performances they are immediately later capable to assure to your automated Quality Control.   Graphene™ makes available this important Company Upgrade as an hardware + software + installation + commissioning package whose all-inclusive pricing starts from $ 990.     

Provide us some basics, like the position in the Line or Lines’ Layout of the electronic inspection equipments, and from where you’d like to control them.   Graphene™ shall show you how to meet your specific requests.

Further informations here.

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• Support Ticket system, to track and respond to Customer Support requests;
• a knowledge base to answer common questions and help users find the information they need when they need it;
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In the following the contents of the subjects discussed in the meetings at IAFP 2014, betweeen August 3 and 6, 2014 at Indianapolis, USA.  

Food and Beverage Safety, are as usual the key subjects:  

• HACCP, 
• Food and Beverage Law, 
• Food and Beverage Packaging, 
• microbial, viral and chemical contaminations of the beverages.

Further details at http://www.foodprotection.org

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December 18, 2013

To assure our Visitors' right to a safe navigation thru this web site, Graphene® announces the partnership with 6Scan. Partnership signalled by the newly appeared security badge in the lower right angle of all of our pages. The robots of 6Scan attack our web site each 24 hours on a daily base, using a range of hacking strategies.  

In the case they'd encounter the way to break through our actual defenses, assured by CloudFlare® and A2 Hosting®, 6Scan:

• auto-fixes immediately the eventual causes for the risky condition;
• warns us.

In the following, 6Scan describe itself:

"The Story

Our story begins at Matzov, the Israeli military unit responsible for defending confidential communications from hackers - the Israeli counterpart of America's NSA.  After spending years designing security algorithms and testing products for vulnerabilities, we became the go-to people for help with securing, well, pretty much anything. We couldn't help but notice a question that kept popping up: "My website got hacked; what do I do now?" None of the solutions we knew of could fix that problem once and for all - they were either complicated, expensive, or did only half the job. Thus, we decided to see if we could think up a way to protect websites that is both affordable and easy enough to use so that websites of any size and budget could finally solve the hacker problem, once and for all - and 6Scan was born.

The Mission

Our mission is to reverse the rising trend of successful website hacks, making the Internet a safer place for website owners as well as for users. As more and more websites will use our one-click, always-updated protection, hackers will have less and less surface area to perform their attacks.

The Location

6Scan's R&D is headquartered on Rothschild Blvd., in the heart of Tel Aviv, Israel”

Features:

Dual Scan

6Scan's Dual Scan approach detects active malware infections and vulnerabilities that could make your site a target for future attacks. This proactive free service works seamlessly in the background to maintain website security.

Auto-Fix

When Dual Scan technology discovers an issue, our Auto-Fix solution acts immediately to resolve the problem. With 6Scan installed there is no need to worry about the time, effort or expense required to secure your website and protect your reputation.

Firewall

6Scan includes a Web Application Firewall (WAF) that uses pattern matching to block out even more security threats For the advanced user, our application firewall is completely configurable so you can choose the level of security you desire for your site.

Cutting Edge Research

The research team works around the clock to find undocumented vulnerabilities. The moment a vulnerability is discovered, our Dual Scan and Auto-Fix features update automatically to proactively protect 6Scan customers from emerging threats.

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6Scan monitors top blacklists to ensure your site maintains a clean reputation.

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Receive email or SMS messages with scan results. If an issue is found, 6Scan can send a message with details on how the problem was fixed.

February 23, 2014

This website devoted to the Quality Control automation and Machine Vision in Beverage Bottling Lines, started the introduction of content inherent to its subjects, 5 months ago.  In the following, a table showing from what countries Visitors opened these:

                    http://www.graphene-lda.com 

web pages. 

After the initial 5 months, and without Google-referrarls or other kind of paid advertisement:

• total 60 countries;
• 80 % of the visits originating by the USA: our North American Visitors alone, opened ~100000 pages of the total actual > 130000.

95 % of the humanity lives in these 60 countries.

October 3, 2013

Each one website has its own type of content.  90 % of the company's websites, purportedly introduce nearly only promotional content being needed by the company when, on the opposite, content should be wanted by the Visitors.   Content that’s massively useful and provided for free, no forms to fill, no email address, no 'first born child' required.   

Following this 'open gates' logic, Graphene is actively working to provide Visitors with:

• free-of-charge technical documentation, infographics and guides, rather than advertisement brochures;
• massively useful and operative methods for Bottling Quality Control, rather than semi-hidden suggestions sounding like a continuous invitation to "buy this or that".

As a consequence, we announce they are being introduced modifications to Terms of Use and Rights & Permissions site policies, corresponding to the open gates address.

August 27, 2013     

Clicking the light blue Vimeo badge visible above, will link you to Graphene's profile in the Vimeo network, allowing further download of videos in the subjects of Food & Beverage Quality Assurance, Quality Control methods and Electronic Inspection.  To offer its Visitors and Customers the best vision conditions front of tens of gigabytes of high definition multimedia content, Graphene adhered to Vimeo network.  Vimeo, based in New York City, offers to this Graphene network the value added represented by:

• 50 GB of video storage
• No bandwidth caps or time limits
• High Definition video, up to HD 1080, meaning the same as a Blu-ray Disc 
• Compatibility with Mobile, tablet and connected TV
• HTML5 support
• Adobe® Flash® support

Vimeo's hosting video High Definition capability, are added to CloudFlare® cloud based fast content delivery (24 Data Centres in 16 Countries), to assure you the best conditions when visiting this network of web sites.  Further detailed information about the complete list of Mobile devices, Streaming Players & TV’s and Softwares already including Vimeo, or for which there exist and are freely downloadable applications, is available at: https://vimeo.com/everywhere

Coming to the professional reviews and comparisons with other video hosting and streaming platforms, e.g. YouTube, in the following we’ll quote the words of Dan Sung at Pocket Lint (http://www.pocket-lint.com), interviewing the Vimeo CEO, Dae Mellencamp, at her hotel during one of the latest and famous Barcelona’s Mobile World Congress: 

“…..If you haven’t heard of Vimeo before, then, you’re wrong. You have. If YouTube is the household name in online video, then Vimeo (an anagram of movie), along with DailyMotion, is the next most likely you’ll come across when sent a link of the latest must-see. A little different from the other big players, Vimeo prides itself on a more discerning user base made up of indie filmmakers or those with a passion for movies of all lengths and genres who call themselves Vimeans. Home to 10 million of them, the site was the first to support HD videos in October 2007 and one of the few to shun preroll adverts from the start of their clips.

“We work very hard to create the best online video experience possible,” says Mellencamp, describing Apple’s validation of the company. “That’s our goal and the fact that they support that is evidence that we’re doing a good job.”

Indeed, it was news to the Vimeo CEO and all her staff when the Mountain Lion announcement hit. As it turns out, they were on a team outing at the time and were as shocked as anyone else.

“They didn’t tell us at all. It’s really quiet when you work with them. Apple keeps us in the dark as much as anyone else. We work with them and they’re a great partner,” she adds, understandably quick to not break any invisible rules, “but you don’t always know the details or when.”

One reason that makes Vimeo the likely choice for a company like Apple - aside from the obvious conspiracy theories on the Google/Apple conflict - is inherent in an ethos that very closely matches that of the computer giant. Part of creating the best online video platform is putting the user experience first. While Apple’s iOS and OS X are well known for their simplicity, Vimeo too has plenty of gongs on the UX front and pages in books on the subject devoted to its platform.   In January, the company unveiled a huge redesign of the sort that might just have caught Cupertino’s attention in the first place. Features, like a larger player, a stripped-back look with fewer links per screen and hidden browser, aim to put a greater focus on the videos themselves while adding more keyboard shortcuts, greater social support and multiple file uploading are just a few of the additions to make Vimeo easier to use and a richer experience for those for whom it’s already familiar. But if some of those ideas feel obvious, then it might be because they’ve been in the pipeline for quite a while….."

Mountain Valley, California, USA  -   July 26, 2013     

To assure continuity of  operation and the due secrecy of the communication with Visitors, Graphene adopts a tetrad of security measures .

A Bottler can face damages due to forced recalls, emergency situations, low quality of product, etc. The statistics of this it is possible to follow in the website of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and its webpage: Recalls, market Withdrawals, & Safety Alerts.  

We provide sensitive information how to avoid huge losses in production and shares in the market.

And because of these reasons, to protect our communications with Visitors & Customers, we choose Symantec, the greatest provider of Internet Security of the World. Recently Symantec, already owning Verisign® Certification Authority, acquired GeoTrust® Certification Authority, a 'CA' whose corporate headquarters are based in Mountain View, California, USA.

GeoTrust CA 'TrueBusinessID' encrypted connection, now provides to this website:

• Security                        Company identification
• Encryption                    256-bit,  4096-bit root   
• Assurance                    250000 USD warranty 
• Dynamic Seal               GeoTrust trust mark (see the one accessible on right side)
• Universality                   support > 99% of browsers

The first step toward Security is the authentication of the identity of the Company asking to be certified.  As a condition to receive a certificate by this Certificate Authority, we were asked to confirm our business identity by mean of original registration documents.   Documents, which had to be provided to GeoTrust, were delivered in the unique way. To prevent any possible pre-existing Man-in-The-Middle attacks, they didn't pass through web communications at all.  

Later these documents were cross-checked with the Company documents deposited in the Registry Office of the Ministry of Justice of the country where Graphene is incorporated.   This way, GeoTrust verified that the Company has the right to use the domain name submitted in its application by checking with the domain name Registrar.   

Later there arrived a control phone-call to Graphene's office by the phone number they encountered with the help of an Internet search.

Then, and only then, after a 4-days long procedure, they processed the 4096 bit key Graphene® provided them, to obtain a new and final certificate allowing the SSL encryption of the traffic passing through the address:

                https://www.graphene-lda.com/.….

Internet’s one million most-visited domains rely on GeoTrust SSL more than any other Certificate Authority: now we know why.

July 17, 2013     

The "Industrial  Property  Bulletin" # 134/2013 of July 17, 2013, publication of the authority managing all request of patents and signs, namely the Portuguese Institute of Industrial Property, on its page 83 endorsed the worldwide registration of Graphene® company logo visible down.  The official communication to Graphene is available here.

Graphene is a bidimensional material (similar to the reticular structure visible above in the lower half of Graphene Lda. logo) consisting of a single layer of Carbonium atoms.  It was first time obtained a few decades ago by mean of nanotechnologies from slices of the more common graphite, a well known main component of pencils.   Layers  of graphene are arranged in a honeycomb structure.   It is the thinnest known material and, also, already one of the strongest.  At the ambient temperature, it conducts electricity as efficiently as copper, but outperforms other materials as a conductor of heat. 

During tests at extremely low temperatures, in 2010, graphene's junctions outperformed approximately 100 000 times faster the switching speed of today universally admitted Silicium's junctions.  These last are what since 40 years let all of our Electronics' technological applications function, including the device used to read these notes.  This result made graphene the best candidate to replace Silicium-based transistors & junctions, wherever speed is critical.    Laboratory instrumentation, computation, scientific research, aerospace, military & cryptologic applications are already on course. Graphene, being almost completely transparent, is so dense that even the smallest atom, Helium, cannot pass through it. Because of this feature, recently (2013)  there have  been built prototypal displays extremely thin.    Readers interested to deeper insights on graphene, are suggested to link here directly Andre Geim - Nobel Lecture: Random Walk to Graphene in Nobelprize.org. Nobel Media AB 2013. Web. 19 Jul 2013.