L'oreal

Luc Deguire

Richard A Besen

Florent Valceschini

Christopher Hipple

Jeffrey Townsend

Joel Falardeau

A system is provided for dispensing a hair dye formulation into container, comprising: a conveyer belt configured to transport the customer container along a fill line; a plurality of dispensing mechanisms, each connected to a respective bulk containers having a different bulk hair dye color, the plurality of dispensing mechanisms being disposed over a conveyer belt along the fill line; and circuitry configured to receive a plurality of formulas for filling a respective plurality of receiving containers with one or more bulk hair dye colors from among the plurality of bulk containers having the different bulk hair dye color, and control each of the plurality of dispensing mechanisms to perform a dispensing operation to dispense an amount of bulk hair dye color or to not perform a dispensing operation at a time when each of the receiving containers are transported to each of the plurality of dispensing mechanisms along the fill line, wherein the circuitry is configured to adjust a sequence of the receiving containers to be filled in the fill line based on the formulas and a sequence which results in a minimum time to complete filling the receiving containers in the fill line.

IT organization for custom hair dye dispensing system

A system is provided for dispensing a hair dye formulation into a customer container. The system includes a conveyer belt configured to transport the customer container along a fill line; a plurality of dispensing mechanisms, each connected to a respective container having a different bulk hair dye color, the plurality of dispensing mechanisms being disposed over a conveyer belt along the fill line. The system is configured to receive a formula for filling the customer container with one or more bulk hair dye colors from among the plurality of containers having the different bulk hair dye color, and control each of the plurality of dispensing mechanisms to perform a dispensing operation to dispense an amount of bulk hair dye color or to not perform a dispensing operation at a time when the customer container is transported to each of the plurality of dispensing mechanisms along the fill line.

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Montreal, Canada

Luc Deguire