Pharmaceutical and healthcare company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) will roll out two-dimensional (2D) barcodes on the inner containers as well as outer boxes for most of its US vaccines. According to the company, a 2D barcode is a small square ...
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Multivac Marking & Inspection is set to exhibit a new labeler for pharmaceutical packs at Fachpack 2013, which takes place from 24 to 26 September in Nuremberg, Germany. The new folding carton labeler seals the tuck-in flaps of folding ...
Tags: Multivac, Labeler, Pharmaceutical Packs
Bizerba, a German company has developed the new Plug-in Label function, which is an interaction between price labeller and thermo label. The function allows food producers to raise production efficiency. Set for launch in autumn 2013, the ...
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NATO's ability to bring together the military forces of its 28 member countries to achieve a common goal is extremely powerful. There are, of course, a number of challenges when it comes to joining many disparate organizations to work ...
Tags: IUID, Processing Machinery
Finnish paper and pulp company Mets Board has made improvements to its folding boxboards, Avanta Prima, Simcote and Carta Elega. The latest enhancements follow technical improvements that are made at the company's mills during the ...
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The paperboard and paper supplier said the product enhancements improve the suitability of each cartonboard in the range for a particular packaging end-use such as food; beauty care; healthcare; or luxury packaging and graphics ...
Machine vision systems supplier Cognex has unveiled a new version of the In-Sight Track & Trace identification and data verification solution for healthcare serialization. The latest version is a follow-up to deployments of In-Sight Track ...
The 2-D Data Matrix barcode has numerous advantages over its one-dimensional counterpart, the linear barcode. Generally speaking, Data Matrix can hold substantially more data than a linear barcode -- as much as 100 times the information. ...
Tags: Iuid Verification, Data Matrix barcode, Data Matrix code
The Item Unique Identification (IUID) program used by the Department of Defense allows the department to track many of its physical assets throughout their lifetime. This is key to the department's financial management as well as its combat ...
The 2-dimensional barcode, or Data Matrix code, is at the heart of the Item Unique Identification system (IUID) used by the Department of Defense for tracking equipment throughout its life cycle. Contractors supplying equipment to the DoD ...
Tags: Manufacturing, Processing Machinery, Scanner
SEMI's HB-LED Standards Committee has approved its first standard, specifying sapphire wafers used in making high-brightness light-emitting diode (HB-LED) devices. Sapphire wafers are used in producing HB-LED devices for multiple ...
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With the increased demand for personalised medicine, the growth in the cryopreservation of biological samples has increased dramatically in recent years and continues today. This increase has created the need for secure, reliable and ...
Tags: Small Volume Cryogenic Samples, vials, cryopreservation
The HB-LED Standards Committee of industry association Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI) has approved its first standard ‘SEMI HB1: Specifications for Sapphire Wafers Intended for Use for Manufacturing High ...
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Indian company Goose has launched the new Goose ‘Tracker’, a new generation 2D serialization bar code for the drug industry. The tool integrates with existing applications to securely meet data management and printing needs for ...
Tags: Goose, 2D serialization bar code, drug industry, data management
The Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) has developed a standard for handling 2D barcodes that it hopes will direct mobile phone users to websites more easily. By standardizing the specification for encoding, decoding and resolution of 2D barcodes, ...