The updates to quality management include digital checklists and expanded traceability capabilities. CERM also releases other products and features for label, flexible packaging, and folding carton converters to improve efficiency, compliance, and visibility. As quality requirements continue to rise across the industry, converters face growing pressure to demonstrate consistent quality, complete traceability, and documented compliance while maintaining operational efficiency.
CERM is introducing enhanced quality management functionality at LOUPE Americas 2026. This enables to replace paper-based quality documentation with digital checklists directly connected to every production job, creating a centralized quality record throughout the manufacturing process. By digitizing and standardizing quality procedures, converters can improve process consistency, simplify audits, reduce manual administration, and strengthen compliance with customer and regulatory requirements.
Quality directly impacts profitability and products that do not meet specifications can result in costly recalls, production downtime at customer sites, wasted materials, expedited reprints, and damaged customer relationships. The quality management features help to reduce these risks by ensuring that quality checks become an integrated part of the production workflow, instead of disconnected paper records.
End-to-End production traceability
Alongside improved quality management, CERM introduces significant enhancements to traceability capabilities. While CERM already captures production data such as operator and machine clocking, material consumption, and SKU creation: the latest updates extend visibility throughout the manufacturing process. The system now creates a digital record of machine activity whenever a new production input is scanned or started, when an operator change occurs, or when a semi-finished good is completed. It includes details such as timestamp, duration, unit, image, product list, and pallet. The activity collected is gathered in a comprehensive report to easily visualize the entire production history and trace back all relevant information for each production job. The access to this report enables to simplify investigations, improve accountability, and support customer and regulatory traceability requirements.
Visitors to CERM’s booth will also discover Lexis, the AI agent that automatically transforms incoming customer emails and attachments into validated CERM sales orders, dramatically reducing manual order entry while keeping users in control through a final review before processing. CERM will also demonstrate the latest generation of CERM Tempo, the CERM rule-based scheduler, which is helping create more efficient production schedules, improve machine utilization, and respond faster to changing production priorities.
Smart BI Enterprise, the new version of CERM’s BI tool, will also be presented. With its new architecture, customers will now be able to combine the Smart BI data model with external data sources. The company will also provide an exclusive preview of O2, CERM’s cloud-based MIS platform that will be released during the event.
