Track & Trace

GFI Software is hoping to capitalise on New Zealand's massive small and medium business market as the company launches a cloud-based hardware-independent wireless management service.

The Global Pharmaceutical Serialisation and Track & Trace Open House enables pharmaceutical and biotech professionals to prevent counterfeit products in their supply chain and implement serialisation compliance on a regional and global scale from the comfort of their desks!

This online event is your opportunity to showcase how your solution stacks up in the real world via our interactive webinar platform!

The deadline for medical device manufacturers to comply with new U.S. Food and Drug Administration identification rules is coming, but a lot remains up in the air. FDA’s Unique Device Identification system is a two-pronged approach, requiring both a bar code for machine scanning and text that can be read by the eye on most medical devices. It’s an effort to manage materials better and improve the quality and safety of medical devices coming to and already on the market.

Cogiscan, a leading track, trace and control solutions provider for the electronics manufacturing industry, has received a major order from ACD, a leading supplier to the electronics industry.

There was a time—perhaps in the 2005-2007 period, when radio-frequency (RFID) tags for item-level serialization were running hot and heavy—that the US bio/pharma industry and its trading partners could have coalesced around an acceptable standard for identifying product packages uniquely, and tracking their pedigree through supply chains. For many reasons (notably reservations about RFID itself, which has mostly been superseded by 2D barcode as the serialization technology of choice), that didn’t happen. Industry as well as FDA are still struggling with how to manage the e-pedigree process, as evidenced by FDA’s recent workshop on the subject.

Pharmaceutical executives are hustling to finalize plans to implement the Drug Quality and Security Act, which became law last November. Although that law was seen as allowing extra time to serialize packaging lines, it actually moves up some deadlines and adds additional requirements that are causing pharmaceutical companies to adjust their serialization strategies and implementation timelines.

Serialized Track and Trace with SAP, by Kevin Wilson: updated automatically with a curated selection of articles, blog posts, videos and photos.

Despite recent legislation to establish a more secure pharmaceutical supply chain to deliver high quality, approved medicines to American patients, efforts to block the import of  substandard, fraudulent and counterfeit drugs remains an uphill fight.

Counterfeit drugs are a danger to consumers. Safemedicines.org is the homepage of the Partnership for Safe Medicines, a coalition of patient, physician, pharmacist, academic, and industry groups that work together to educated the public about counterfeit drugs, pharmaceutical, biologics, vaccines, and all other types of fakes and counterfeits. The site holds information on related issues like internet or online pharmacies which might sell counterfeit medication, drug diversion, gray market drugs, foreign online sellers, and legal ways to purchase cheap medicines and avoid getting counterfeit drugs.

Lissieu, France – SIC Marking has launched the XL-Box laser workstation. XL Box operates through a laptop (connected via USB port), with SIC LASER PC software that runs in a Windows environment. The software, which is included with the package, offers multiple solutions to configure marking, while maintaining ergonomics and an easy-to-use interface.

On November 27, 2013, President Obama signed into law the Drug Quality and Security Act, which amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. Title II of this law, also known as the Drug Supply Chain Security Act (Act), establishes a timeline for entities involved in the pharmaceutical distribution chain to implement a national track and trace system.

This report provides an insight into the Opportunity in the Indian Tubular Glass current market scenario, structure and practices.

London Underground uses RFID technology to support their escalator maintenance operations and worked with CoreRFID, specialists in RFID applications and technology, to develop a solution for London Underground. Guest Blog by CoreRFID Ltd.

Counterfeit medicines are an enormous problem in many parts of the world. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates the problem accounts for between seven and 15% of all medicines circulated in developed countries. It is far worse in developing countries, where up to 25% of all medicines are likely to be falsified (1).