Getting those DoD contracts can be really important for your business, but often there are clauses that are somewhat unclear. One of these relates to the UID marking clause – DFARS 252.211-7003, which covers Item Identification and Valuation. If this clause appears in your contract, there is a very good chance that you will need […]
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Outsource Service or DIY For Bar Code Equipment?
When looking at how you maintain and service your bar code and labeling printing equipment, you have choices to do-it-yourself, pay as you go, or outsource it. The most common questions companies look at when deciding are “how can we reduce costs and increase productivity?” and “Can we afford to handle maintenance and repairs our self?” It […]
PTI Seeks Volunteers to Help With Traceability Practices
The Produce Traceability Initiative (PTI) is seeking volunteers from the fresh produce industry to guide future traceback procedures and help standardize industry-wide traceability practices. PTI wants to establish groups to address issues in four key areas: 1) guide and promote industry-wide adoption of GS1 standards, including developing best-practices for implementing tracking solutions. 2) identify product attributes […]
UID Labeling – avoiding simple mistakes
We’ve been helping DoD contractors (and their sub-contractors) get into MIL-STD-130 compliance for a few years now and have 100’s of customers for whom we’ve either provided printing systems or verified labels. When you consider that the UID mandate was launched in 1996, you might be surprised to learn that a lot of companies – […]
Symbol’s new ES400 – first thoughts
New Symbol ES400 When Motorola bought Symbol, I thought it would be a good opportunity to see some of Moto’s experience in cool handset design migrate to the Symbol line – a kind of “best of both worlds” thing. The new ES400 fits right into this with a stylish formfactor that still has a lot […]
Need to add weights to your labels?
Seagull Scientific’s BarTender label software has always been pushing the limits when it comes to including useful new features. The latest release, version 9.3 includes a lot of new ideas – one of my favorites is weigh scale integration. Quite often, labels need to include weight fields and the new BarTender interfaces directly with many of […]
Zebra HC100 – Hands-on Review
Patient Identification – the new standard There has been a lot of attention given to patient safety of late and being able to quickly and accurately identify patients is the starting point of any patient safety (and billing) system. Using wristbands as a form of patient identification has been around for a long time – […]
E-Pedigree Model for Pharmaceuticals in the Works
The GS1 Healthcare group has put into place a supply chain model for the pharmaceutical industry as part of its 2015 Readiness program. The model uses a standard serialized track-and-trace system, known as an electronic pedigree (e-pedigree). The e-pedigree tracks movements of pharmaceutical products throughout the supply chain. In 2006, the U.S. Food and Drug […]
Empower Your Anti-Counterfeiting Strategy
Today’s manufacturers are faced with many challenges to survive and thrive in a global economy. One rising crisis affecting their success is counterfeiting. “There have been several definitive studies that have suggested strongly or shown that something between 7% – 10% of everything produced in the world today is fake.” states Dr. Jim of Polyonics. […]
Face to Face at Boston’s Electronics and Medical Device Tradeshow
The Electronics New England and BIOMEDevice tradeshow held in Boston was reasonably well-attended, especially the first day. Those who took advantage of the Spring weather and got out of the office for the day seemed to enjoy the broad array of vendors, new products, and innovative technologies. Some may feel “tradeshows are a dying art.” Those […]