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Morrison Container Handling SolutionsCustomers can now place timing screw orders and obtain quotes for timing screws online at the company's site 24 hours/day. Staff is also available to answer questions and provide solutions for combining, dividing, metering, indexing, and orienting on new or existing applications. www.morrison-chs.com

April 3, 2007

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Are talking tags next?

Despite some bumps in the road to RFID implementation, vendors and others continue to leverage the technology and push it into new applications.

April 3, 2007

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Food Fight

Some in Congress want a new agency for food safety as well as new standards for safeguarding the nation’s food supply.

April 3, 2007

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SAP: Printer networking

Now available from Loftware is a new technology for connecting SAP® enterprise systems to the company’s Printer Server® to solve the “last mile” connectivity problem for SAP customers, who usually drive SAP-derived data to networks of printers.

March 9, 2007

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SAP: Printer networking

Now available from Loftware is a new technology for connecting SAP® enterprise systems to the company’s Printer Server® to solve the “last mile” connectivity problem for SAP customers, who usually drive SAP-derived data to networks of printers.

March 9, 2007

Secondary Packaging

Daisy Brand grows with RFID

The company automates its RFID processes using a print-and-apply applicator to tag all of its pallets with smart labels.

March 8, 2007

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Smart shelves...and cabinets

So-called smart packaging has been around for years, but what about “smart shelves”?

March 8, 2007

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Giving RFID a voice: How making tags talk could improve efficiencies

Voice-directed work technology is looking to leverage the data contained in RFID tags.

February 28, 2007

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RFID has game at Best Buy

IDTechEx has published a slick new 128-page RFID in action 2006/7 magazine that features case studies culled from its “RFID Knowledgebase” of more than 2,300 implementations in 85 countries. Of the approximately 25 articles is Best Buy’s implementation that includes smart shelves, electronically enabled shelving that  can read the tags of products. This permits the retailer to know whether or not a package is present on-shelf to help reduce out-of-stocks.

February 9, 2007

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Resilient RFID tag

Now available from Confidex, Ironside RFID transponders work on metallic objects and in the most demanding conditions.

January 11, 2007

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New Congress unwraps key packaging issues

Democratic-controlled House and Senate plan to examine track-and-trace packaging; tackling container security is also a lock.

January 10, 2007

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T&A's RFID Update Part 3

We’ve chronicled the RFID experiences of family-owned produce packer Tanimura & Antle through several articles since 2005 (see links at bottom) via Tom Casas, T&A’s vp information technology and T&A’s resident RFID champion.

January 10, 2007

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Checking up on healthcare packaging

Vital issues include validation, FDA regulations, counterfeiting, and the challenges of shipping pharmaceuticals and biologics through the cold chain.(Part I of II)

December 18, 2006