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  • Road to RFID Paved with Bar Codes
    tags. Supporting those rushing to embrace RFID is George Wright IV, vice president of Product Identification & Processing Systems, Inc. He asserts, "The road to RFID is paved with bar codes." PharmaManufacturing.com spoke with Wright to ascertain the view from his particular mountaintop
  • RFID for the Masses
    in applying RFID smart label technology While Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Auto-ID Laboratory continues to develop global standards for electronic product codes (EPC) and smart tags, vendors are developing standards for sensor RFID labels, materials, protocols, data structures and compliance
  • AIM RFID Experts Refute RFID Virus Claims
    Operational Excellence & Lean Six Sigma Most applications of RFID, including EPC Gen2, look for specific kinds of data. Poor reader design might allow the reading of a "rogue " tag, but a good system will verify the data against pre-defined parameters, as do current bar code systems, and any code
  • With RFID, the System is the System
    By Bert Moore, Director, Communications and Media Relations, AIM Global, and Consultant, IDAT Consulting It's all too easy to forget, in the midst of evaluating and implementing RFID technology, that it is only a tool to feed a data management system. Admittedly, RFID can often do this more
  • Road to RFID Paved with Bar Codes
    This quick, one-time registration gives you access to members-only site benefits. When it comes to printing bar codes, the correct data needs to be encoded in the right symbology and the symbol must be well printed. ANSI and/or ISO standards have been in place for more than 15 years detailing how
  • Jump Starting RFID in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
    This quick, one-time registration gives you access to members-only site benefits. The industry is already using RFID to track and trace Class 2 pharmaceuticals, which, in most cases, are narcotics that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) oversees. Earlier this year, H.D. Smith Wholesale Drug Co
  • FDA Report Supports Use of RFID
    for a group that will explore the use of RFID and electronic product code (EPC) in the pharmaceutical supply chain. Group members include Abbott Laboratories, Barr Pharmaceuticals, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson as well as distributors, retailers and trade groups. The group plans to test how RFID can
  • Inside GSK s New RFID Pilot
    faith in the data it collects from supply chain partners. "Right now they share data [with partners], but it 's assumed data, " Chang says. "RFID is actual physical data that you can trust. " GSK has chosen to use high frequency (HF) tags carrying electronic product code (EPC) data, which has
  • RFID Standards and Drug Security in the Year Ahead
    to be resolved by general use of either of two coding structures, HIBCC or GS1 (formerly EAN/UCC), as well as advances in bar code readers that can identify and read virtually any symbology automatically. Debate over which RFID frequency to use offers many parallels. While pallet- and carton-level
  • Europeans Test Drive Point-of-Use RFID
    Drugs in the Virtual Enterprise (DRIVE), a $4-million research project funded by the European Commission, is now studying the use of collaborative logistics and smart labels using radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. Partners for the project include the San Raffaele Research Institute
  • Road to RFID Paved with Bar Codes
    This quick, one-time registration gives you access to members-only site benefits. In the draft guidance they recently published in a Q &A format, they provided clarification and guidance on a few issues on which they had received comment. Although one of those areas was the meaning of ?compliance by
  • Simulating Performance of a Low Cost, Chipless RFID System in XFdtd
    represent a single bit in the RFID tag code. The system is validated using two cross-polarized log periodic dipole arrays as the send and receive devices.
  • Pfizer s Staver on RFID: Technology Isn t the Only Solution
    . As an extension of the program, the company recently initiated, utilizing SupplyScape s e-pedigree software, a new service that will allow supply chain partners to verify electronic product codes via the Internet. After reading a bottle s electronic product code (EPC), found on both the RFID tag and a 2-D
  • Purdue Pharma Blazes a Trail for Drug Security
    of individual bottles in the plant and of those bottles once packaged in 48-count cartons, says Graham. It is also successfully using RFID capabilities to monitor product flow throughout the supply chain. And it is associating the electronic product code (EPC) data with other business transaction data
  • EETimes.com | Electronics Industry News for EEs & Engineering Managers
    Philips readies RFID chip that meets global spec Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands said it is testing engineering samples of an RFID chip compliant with Electronic Product Code Class 1 Generation 2 standard. S2C teams with Zaiq to offer transaction-level verification capabilities S2C

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