Track & Trace

According to the companies, product digitisation allows brands to maximise the value of every package and to deliver on consumer demands for authenticity, sustainability, and personalised experiences. The companies add that product digitisation can drive operational improvements by providing more visibility and traceability along a product’s supply chain journey.

Sealed Air, which has rebranded as SEE, is integrating digital technologies with physical packaging — including flexible packaging used for food — through its new prismiq digital packaging brand. The prismiq portfolio combines the best of digital printing, smart packaging, and package design services that support those technologies.

AI is expanding in every industry, especially in retail, where experts estimate that spending on AI will be $12 billion by 2023. They projected the retail industry to grow from 23.6 trillion U.S. dollars in 2018 to around 26.7 trillion U.S. dollars by 2022. The enormous growth has led to major competition in the industry. To sustain the competition retailers, need to gear up for better customer engagement and satisfaction. Customers expect personalization and with millennials being an enormous chunk of consumers spending nearly $600 billion every year on retail alone, the industry needs to innovate.

Liquid pharmaceutical manufacturers operate under great scrutiny and must set high standards of product quality. In this first column of a three-part series on product packaging quality, Jürgen Kress, general manager for checkweighing and vision inspection,

In the future, when you order a shot of whiskey, you might ask the bartender to hold an edible fluorescent silk tag that could be found floating inside – even though it is safe to consume. This little silk tag with a QR code is a security measure that could reveal if the whiskey you’re wanting to buy is fake. Simply using a smartphone to scan the tag could confirm the drink’s authenticity. The tech was developed by biomedical engineers from Purdue University and the National Institute of Agricultural Sciences in South Korea.

As industry experts welcome and also raise concerns about the implementation of QR codes in pharma, it needs an amicable and practical solution as they roll out including costs, implementation of technology and proper guidelines by the government to counter the problem of counterfeit drugs.

Counterfeit products are a significant and growing problem which impact supply chain security, consumer safety, and your brand’s profitability. INX International and VerifyMe formed a strategic partnership in 2021. Together, we are dedicated to providing smart packaging solutions and cutting-edge technologies – such as security inks – to support brand protection programs that protect your brand’s reputation, its bottom-line, and its customers.

In the “Consumer Beware” era, most people want to know about their food source. The desire to eat healthy and the increased technology adoption have resulted in the transformation of agri-input supply chains.

QR codes or quick response codes are the advanced version of the barcode to store information in a white and black small box (pixels). QR codes are capable of storing up to 7089 digits or 4296 characters. Today these are used in product tracking, marketing, and ad campaigns. Recently it plays an important role and has been used by the health healthcare providers to trace exposure and in corona vaccine registration.

The industry has welcomed the steps of introducing QR codes on widely used medicines which will help in preventing the drug counterfeit which has emerged as a threat in recent years and also will help the common citizens to gather the accurate information about the medicines they are using.

Track and Trace (T&T) systems allow manufacturers to track their products throughout the supply chain, providing valuable information about where they have been, who had handled them, when and how long they were stored, etc. It also enables manufacturers to identify any issues that may arise during transport or storage, such as product damage or contamination.

Founded in 2001, tesa scribos® is a full subsidiary of tesa SE within the Beiersdorf group.tesa scribos® helps brands connect their products with the digital world by creating unique markings and digital tools.

Valuable goods come in many forms. From collectible trading cards, to vaccines, establishing ownership and managing chain of custody is increasingly important as assets change hands. Openscreen’s blockchain enabled asset registry securely generates unique QR codes and manages assets and ownership. Our powerful workflows also enable secure transfer of goods as ownership changes occur.

As the first link in the manufacturing chain, the company applies unique codes to its primary packaging and medical devices. Thanks to the digital infrastructure for traceability, all downstream parties can link, analyse, and share any data with the individual product unit.

One example is a traceability solution installed at German firm, A. Nattermann and Cie, a subsidiary of Sanofi Aventis Group, by Cognex integrator K+P Qualitäts-Kontrollsysteme. Joshua Deats, global account manager, pharmaceuticals at Cognex, said the system effectively put a stop to drug counterfeiting. The solution is based on a Cognex In-Sight camera used alongside a DataMan fixed-mount barcode reader to read and inspect data matrix codes and printed text labels using optical character recognition (OCR).

Computer vision has become a most-prominent and a modern approach for accelerating smart manufacturing operations. It is playing a key role in every aspect of the manufacturing sector. Computer Vision has become the most popular technology over the past decade, especially in the manufacturing industry. It is making a significant impact at every stage of the manufacturing process, from using computer vision in warehouses to modern robotics in R&D labs.

With falsified and counterfeit drugs on the rise, there is a need to secure products and protect consumer safety. The UAE’s governmental department for healthcare - the Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) is in the process of publishing a legislation that defines the track and trace requirements. The system, Tatmeen, is a fully automated, paperless drug and medical supplies management system for the UAE Healthcare sector.

Many are embracing the green economy with digitalization. Specifically, right-the-first-time drug manufacturing is helping pharma and biopharma organizations be more operationally efficient. This practice can also help make progress toward the dual challenge of meeting the increasing demand for resources while achieving sustainability and profitability.

Pharmaceutical security labels are an important part of the pharmaceutical industry. They help to protect products from potential counterfeit and ensure that patients are getting the correct medication. In this blog post, we will discuss everything you need to know about pharmaceutical security labels!

Dispositif anti-effraction visant à lutter contre la contrefaçon de médicaments, la sérialisation découle d’une directive européenne. Depuis le 9 février 2019, chaque boîte de médicaments vendue en France doit être scannée pour s’assurer qu’il ne s’agît pas de contrefaçon.

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