Fixing, automating & scaling a fragmented operation — without compromise.
A facility grading over one million eggs per day replaced a patchwork of legacy integrations, manual processes, and disconnected devices with a single EggLink system — covering supply, production, and dispatch across two grading lines and 30+ connected devices.
Full production volume managed end-to-end, from farm supply through production into dispatch.
A 120,000 egg/hr existing grader and a new 130,000 egg/hr grader — one system, separate histories.
Pack printers, case printers, scanners, and palletising robot lanes — all orchestrated by Gateway Devices.
Every pack linked to its farm of origin, supply batch, grading record, and dispatch destination.
Traceability queries that once took hours now resolved in seconds through instant lookup.
Automated labelling, scanning, and reporting workflows across both grading lines.
Fragmented systems, at a breaking point.
Supply receiving relied on an outdated WMS bolted to ERP through a workaround — incompatible systems with no reliable sync, no consistent traceability chain, and reporting built by manual consolidation from spreadsheets.
Pack printers were configured by hand for every run; pallet labels were created manually with no traceability links; dispatch documents were prepared individually. These were daily operations, not edge cases.
The grader was connected by writing directly to its internal database, bypassing the manufacturer interface entirely — one-way, fragile, tightly coupled, and impossible to extend to more graders.
A second grader at 130,000 eggs/hr, new pack printers incompatible with it, and a four-lane palletising robot needing unique 2D case codes all arrived at once. The existing architecture could not support any of it.
One system, from supply to dispatch.
EggLink's supply module replaced the legacy detached WMS with a structured, audited receiving workflow — operating independently within EggLink while maintaining real-time two-way sync with the existing ERP. Handheld data collectors eliminated manual receiving steps, and full audit trails and inventory documents generate automatically.
The grader was re-integrated using the manufacturer's official two-way communication interface, replacing the old approach that wrote directly to its database. Live grading data, weight-class counts, and line performance now flow into EggLink in real time — through a maintainable, hardware-independent architecture built for multi-machine operation.
EggLink Gateway Devices connect the grader directly to all inkjet pack printers. Print orchestration is fully automated — unique 2D traceability codes and best-before dates print on every pack with no manual configuration, and layouts are configurable per product and per customer.
Palletising is driven from live production data with enforced quantity constraints and full traceability from supply batch to finished pallet. Dispatch labels and all logistics documents generate and print automatically, configurable per product and customer — with no manual intervention.
With a structured foundation in place, the expansion was implemented without redesign. The second grader, its pack printers, a case printer, and a pack-code scanner connected the same way — case labels with unique 2D codes for the four-lane robot, optional lane scanners capturing case-to-pallet traceability. Both lines run in one system: shared control, separate histories.
Integrated, controlled & automated — from day one.
The operation moved from fragmented, manual workflows to a single controlled system spanning both grading lines.