The Senate’s version of the food safety bill introduced last year – S.510 – looks like it finally has enough bipartisan agreement on key issues and might have a chance of passing. Some of the provisions of the bill include: Hazard analysis and preventive controls: Facilities that manufacture, process, pack, or hold food must have in […]
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GS1 – The Value Chain
GS1 is the organisation responsible for many of the standards that make supply chains work. If you are here in the US, you probably still think of GS1 as the UCC – the group that set up the UPC barcode standard many years ago. To enable tracking and traceability, there are two important parts – […]
New Marathon Tablet from LXE
A few months ago I was shown some pictures of the beta version of what has become the LXE Marathon. At the time I thought it was rather interesting, but I wasn’t able to see how it would be something our customers would need. Well, the product has now been officially announced and here’s a […]
Can Cloud Computing Save You Money?
“Can cloud computing save you money? Probably, but what problems does it bring with it?” states Dr. Peter Green of BellHawk Systems Corporation. For most mid-sized manufacturing companies, cloud computing means moving from having their accounting, MRP, CRM and barcode tracking hosted on their own computers to using servers hosted in a secure data center […]
A Simple Printer Maintenance Tip
Sometimes an ounce of prevention really is worth a pound of cure. A simple step that you can do routinely will keep your thermal transfer printer working at peak performance for a long while. Cleaning the print heads on the printer is probably the most important thing you can do to keep your printers operating […]
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