The state of New York embarked on a project
to renew license plates for all motor
vehicles registered in the State. Corcraft faced the task
of manufacturing over ten million pairs of plates during
a two-year period while coordinating the effort to distribute
each plate to the appropriate vehicle owner. Key to the
distribution process was the matching of an address to a
corresponding license plate.
The task of manually matching each plate pair with a corresponding
address label was daunting. Labor costs, slow speed, fatigue,
transposition and inattention errors were just a few of
the factors that Corcraft had endured some ten years earlier
during a similar reissue and personnel knew they did not
want to repeat that situation. Corcraft turned to the John
R. Wald Company for help. The request, can we come up with
a solution to automate the process. 
The answer, the License Plate Reader/Labeling System (LPRL)
designed and manufactured by the John R. Wald Company.
JOHN
R. WALD MAKES IT WORK
The John R. Wald Company integrated state-of-the-art
vision and computer technology
with automation components to create an accurate, fast, and
reliable process. The LPRL captures an image of a license
plate passing under a camera, digitizes this image to the
correct plate alpha-numeric while maintaining read accuracy
better than 99%, and finds a unique match in the database.
The corresponding address information is then output to an
envelope printer. The system is timed such that as a given
envelope comes off the printer,
the matching license plate pair comes off the conveyor, making
the matching process quite simple, all while achieving production
levels.
The LPRL provides operator messages indicating
duplicate plate situations, plates made but not found in the
database, etc. Reports indicate plates that should have been
made but not processed, batch status, individual plate status,
etc. The export feature creates a data loop from source to
manufacturing back to source, all completed accurately, timely,
and reliably.
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