RFID |
Faced with intense emphasis on profitability, companies are recognizing the critical need for real-time, effective asset management solutions to help them run leaner and smarter.
White paper from ID Technology answers frequently asked questions that arise when considering RFID technology.
Short, quality video from NJM/CLI Packaging Systems International demonstrates the precision and versatility of the Model 400 Print & Apply Final Touch as it applies RFID labels to cases.
Norway’s largest brewery uses RFID to reduce bottlenecks for tracking large shipping containers and finds several unexpected benefits.
It’s challenging enough for a consumer packaged goods company to commit to RFID at the bare-bones tag-and-ship level.
GS1 celebrates the 35th anniversary of the Universal Product Code bar code on June 3.
Kraft, Lance, Nestle, Pfizer, robot packaging OEM Edson, and others
shared practical tips for making packaging operations more efficient at
this year’s Packaging Automation Forum
It’s been long known due to the physics involved that the use of RFID around liquids or metal products or packages results in poor read performance.
The HIDE-Pack Smart Box embeds an RFID within the box structure,
providing companies with increased efficiency in the supply chain,
reduced inventory costs, increased order accuracy, reduced loss due to
theft and piracy, and simplified product recall, according to its
maker, Krupack Packaging.
More bits from EPC Connection, including a CPG panel discussion.
RFID offers the promise to help curb shrink.
Lack of data constrains investment and deployment.
The idea of an RFID-enabled “smart box” has
been tested by several vendors of corrugated
materials, including Domino Integrated Solutions Group (DISG, www.domino-isg.com)
with its award-winning HIDE-Pack™ smart box.
Mike Marcinkowski, senior engineer of Gillette, a Boston-based P&G business unit, talks about the role packaging materials and machinery play in the company’s sustainability efforts.
Contract packager Tjoapack installs a tablet line with coding, scanning, and software capabilities that deliver traceability from pallet all the way back to the unit dose.

Edson, specialists in case packing of hard-to-handle flexible packages, introduces an all-new, ELAU-enabled delta robot packer, the RPd 270, at PACK EXPO booth N-4345
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