Track & Trace

As a food manufacturer/packager/distributor, it is your responsibility to give consumers, retailers, certification boards, and government agencies a view of the journey, all the way back to its origins. While traceability information is crucial in the event of a food-related recall or outbreak, it’s becoming more important in our customer-centric world for consumers to have confidence that both food-safety prevention and response do not get overlooked. In today’s high-speed and connected business environment, consumers and manufacturers across the supply chain can agree upon these things: the need for stronger brand protection, more awareness, and better control.

The term IoT or Internet of Things refers to a network of physical objects or "things" embedded with electronics, software, sensors and connectivity that enable it to achieve greater value and service by exchanging data with the manufacturer, operator and/or other connected devices. Each thing is uniquely identifiable through its embedded computing system but is able to interoperate within the existing Internet infrastructure.

Consumers with smartphones and other portable devices can interact with products that use intelligent packaging for that all-important engagement with the brand. Peter Kallai, president & ceo of the Canadian Printable Electronics Industry Association (CPEIA), responds to intelligent packaging market trends and developments in this exclusive Q&A. Above photo: TUKU

The industrial inkjet printer has been more and more widely used in the pharmaceutical industry. The package types of medicine are also diversified, like boxes, aluminum foil packaging, bottles, capsules, films, etc. Nowadays, automatic production is basic producing mode for a factory, so the industrial inkjet printer also needs to work with other equipments of the automatic production line, like refilling machine, labelling machine, etc. No matter what kind of package material, the portable inkjet printer can provide you satisfying marking solutions of products anti-faking, market management and products tracking.

As you pack the individual bottles into cartons, you need to be able to automatically scan the serialization barcode on the label in order to associate with the next level of packaging. With non-round packages, this is easy since the products can be oriented facing in the same direction for scanning.

Manufacturing is a place where intelligence meets technology. Amazing ideas come from various people and combine with high technology to make it becomes reality. Manufacturing process also a part where details required to strengthen the product result. Many manufacturing companies implement high quality technology to manage their asset and the production process.

The Industrial Revolution marked a major shift in how products were manufactured. This period marked an era of unprecedented growth, contributing to better living standards.
Most manufacturing was done at home by hand or with simple tools. But the development of more sophisticated machines and improvements in efficiency meant that goods could be manufactured on a much larger scale.

Although 3D printers have been hogging the bulk of the “printing” limelight within the past few years, 2D printing technologies have been quietly seeing their fair share of technological breakthroughs, too. That said, you’d likely have to be involved in the print industry to catch wind of them.

BlueCrux and QBD are partnering in organizing a knowledge sharing and networking Seminar around Serialization within Pharmaceutical Industry
You will hear J&J and Alcon’s testimonials around Serialization implementation challenges

Barcoding is certainly one of the best procedures that we have ever implemented here at Premier, it has allowed us to be confident that we know where each item of equipment is, at any time. We began adding assets to our equipment back in 2014 when we introduced our new rental management system, Current RMS. This system allows us to create and then input the individual asset numbers so that we can easily track and manage the thousands of items we now stock.

Although RFID Technology is over 50 years old, its reintroduction into the supply chain of consumer packaged goods has increased the awareness of the public to this technology. And, let it be made clear that there is a lot of hype on what it can and can't do. RFID can provide valuable insight into a supply chain and improve the store and distribution center operations.

Total cost of ownership (TCO) is a financial estimate of the direct and indirect costs to help companies calculate their total investment over the life of a product or system. If you are in the midst of solution selection now, it’s important to ask questions to avoid the risk of having your long-term serialization costs soar. As you conduct your research, ask each third-party vendor that you are considering to prepare a TCO for you. Devise your own checklist of questions, or take along the one provided for you by clicking the Download TCO Checklist button.

PCI Pharma Services, a service provider to global healthcare companies, is first to use the just-introduced the Print & Check Flex Machine, a flexible high-capacity serialization unit from Antares Vision, a provider of serialization-based track-and-trace solutions for the pharmaceutical industry.

Anti-counterfeiting is prevalent with more and more companies realizing that they need to cover their assets. Crown Holdings Inc. (crowncork.com) has come out with CrownSmart™, a scannable code on the pull tab of aluminum cans. Working with Zappar, Crown will deliver augmented reality (AR) to brands and consumers with the tab.

In order to learn more about the process, the regulatory changes, specific considerations and issues, and how companies can make sure they are compliant, Outsourcing-Pharma.com talked with Adriano Fusco, Antares Vision’s Strategy and Development Director.

Having previously explained the basics of PEPPOL (Pan European Public Procurement On Line), it’s important to understand its relationship with GS1 coding standards. If you are a medical or in-vitro device supplier, to be compliant with the NHS’ e-procurement strategy, you will need to have made a commitment to PEPPOL and associated GS1 requirements by September 2016.

Adents, the serialization and traceability software specialist, recently finalized a round of funding of 12 million euros, bringing to 20 million euros the total amount invested in the company over the last 18 months. This increase in capital was signed by Adents’ long time investors NAXICAP Partners, Omnes Capital and CapHorn Invest. The new funding will primarily support the further development of a global network of « solution partners » and gaining footholds in new international markets.

The partnership – financial terms of which were not disclosed – will meld Adents’ serialization and aggregation software with Sequence’s quality and compliance knowhow, with the idea being to help drug companies comply with evolving track & trace requirements in important markets.