Cerm concludes successful Loupe

Cerm concluded a successful presence at Loupe Americas 2026, where customers, prospects and industry partners gathered to discover the company’s latest developments in MIS software, automation, artificial intelligence, scheduling, business intelligence, quality management and traceability.

Cerm showcased updates and new functionality for Cerm 7, its flagship product, including advanced quality management and traceability, production scheduling, business intelligence through Smart BI and AI-powered order processing with Lexis, Cerm’s latest AI agent.

The company also introduced O2, Cerm’s new cloud-based MIS. Introduced publicly for the first time at Loupe Americas, O2 generated interest among visitors looking for a modern, browser-based MIS designed around ease of use, automation, connectivity and the evolving needs of converters.

O2 has been developed as a new cloud-based platform alongside Cerm 7. With an intuitive user experience, API-first architecture, automation capabilities and built-in industry knowledge, O2 represents an important next step in Cerm’s product portfolio.

Cerm’s AI agent Lexis was a key topic of discussion at Loupe Americas. Lexis was presented on the event’s Spotlight Stage, giving attendees a closer look at how artificial intelligence can address one of the most persistent manual processes in label, flexible packaging and folding carton businesses: converting customer emails and attachments into sales orders.

Lexis reads incoming emails and attachments, extracts relevant order information, validates the data against live Cerm information and prepares sales orders for review. Users remain in control of the final validation while significantly reducing the amount of manual data entry required.

Lexis also received industry recognition through its nomination for an Innovation Award at the Labels & Labeling Global Awards 2026. The nomination reflects Cerm’s approach to AI: applying the technology to practical industry challenges where it can create measurable improvements in productivity rather than introducing AI simply for the sake of it.

Visitors to the Cerm booth also showed interest in the latest developments in Cerm 7, the company’s flagship MIS/ERP.

Cerm Tempo, a browser-based tool for production scheduling, demonstrated how rule-based automation and scoring can help optimize production schedules, improve machine utilization and respond more quickly to changing production priorities.

The company also presented Smart BI Enterprise, giving customers more flexibility to combine Cerm MIS data with external information and gain a broader view of their operations.

Enhanced quality management and production traceability capabilities were also highlighted throughout the event, including digital quality checklists and expanded production history reporting designed to help converters improve consistency, simplify audits and meet increasingly demanding customer and regulatory requirements.

Loupe Americas also provided Cerm with an opportunity to bring customers and industry professionals together through the Cerm Studio, where customers shared their experiences with MIS implementation, automation, productivity, growth and data-driven decision-making.

These conversations reflected many of the challenges currently facing converters: increasing production complexity, shorter runs, pressure on skilled personnel, more advanced traceability requirements and the need to connect more systems across the production workflow.

'Loupe was an important moment for us because it allowed us to show not only where Cerm is today, but where we are going,' said Jan Heyse, CEO of Cerm. 'The reaction to O2, Lexis and Cerm Tempo confirmed that converters are actively looking for more automation, better connectivity and software that makes complex processes easier to manage. That is exactly where we are focusing our product development.'