Secrets to Coding, Marking and Inspection Operations

Tips, tricks, and advice for maximizing your return on investment in coding, marking, and inspection equipment.

Dec 19, 2019

Packaging World consulted nearly 100 packaging professionals and asked them the tips and tricks they use to maximize their ROI in coding, marking, and inspection equipment.

Fill out the form below to download Secrets to Coding, Marking and Inspection Operations and to learn how deploying a handful of these actionable tactics in your operations can make a meaningful contribution to efficient and effective operations that impact your bottom line.

Machinery Basics

How Products are Loaded and Sealed into Pre-Made Bags and Pouches

Coding And Marking Equipment Package This Video

Coding & Marking Equipment: Why It’s So Important in Packaging

Learn About 4 Different Types of Wrapping Machines for Your Product

Learn About 10 Different Types of Labeling Machines for Your Product

Coca-Cola’s Topo Chico Sabores Passionfruit can serves as a real-world example of a dual-function 2D barcode: embedded with GS1 Digital Link standards for retail scanning and SmartLabel access, and positioned 50 mm from the 1D UPC to avoid double scans.

Live at GS1: Coca-Cola’s Topo Chico Shows Packaging’s Frontline Role in 2D Barcode Ascendency

At GS1 Connect, Coca-Cola’s Ryan Vann and Schnucks’ Mike Wait shared lessons from piloting 2D barcodes on Topo Chico, revealing why the shift from 1D to 2D is a careful evolution—not a quick flip—for even the biggest brands.

(from left, speaking) Prakash Christopher, Kenvue; Maryann Moschides, ScanBuy; Scott Jackson, Datalogic; Paul Wawrzyniak, Wegmans; and Steven Keddie, GS1.

Live at GS1: Wegmans On Board with 2D Barcodes; Kenvue Will be Ready

Lilián Robayo, Media Director for Latin America PMMI and Editor-in-Chief, Mundo EXPO PACK, interviews Miguel Arvélo, Head of Packaging and Sustainability at Google.

Video: Google's Open Packaging Revolution, Plastic-Free and Secret-Free

Live at GS1: Walmart, Brands Leverage Variable Label Data for FSMA 204

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Pharmaceutical Innovations Report

Discover the latest breakthrough packaging technologies shaping the pharmaceutical sector. This report dives into cutting-edge innovations, from smart containers that enhance patient safety to eco-friendly materials poised to transform the industry’s sustainability practices. All from PACK EXPO. Learn how forward-thinking strategies are driving efficiency and redefining what’s possible in pharma packaging.

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Conveying Innovations Report

Editors report on distinguishing characteristics that define each new product and collected video demonstrating the equipment or materials as displayed at the show. This topical report, winnowed from nearly 300 PACK EXPO collective booth visits, represents a categorized, organized account of individual items that were selected based on whether they were deemed to be both new, and truly innovative, based on decades of combined editorial experience in experiencing and evaluating PACK EXPO products.

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Products

Secrets to Coding, Marking and Inspection Operations

How Products are Loaded and Sealed into Pre-Made Bags and Pouches

Coding & Marking Equipment: Why It’s So Important in Packaging

Learn About 4 Different Types of Wrapping Machines for Your Product

Learn About 10 Different Types of Labeling Machines for Your Product

Live at GS1: Coca-Cola’s Topo Chico Shows Packaging’s Frontline Role in 2D Barcode Ascendency

Live at GS1: Wegmans On Board with 2D Barcodes; Kenvue Will be Ready

Video: Google's Open Packaging Revolution, Plastic-Free and Secret-Free

Live at GS1: Walmart, Brands Leverage Variable Label Data for FSMA 204

Need a custom belt for a unique packaging challenge?

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