Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Package security demands linking of strategy, technology

Tactics such as DNA taggants and color-shifting inks have to be married with strategies that include tight supply-chain security.

August 31, 2004

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Cartoning

Passing data horizontally from processing to packaging

Treating processing and packaging as disjointed tasks hurts efficiency and retards speed to market. New views of controls and integration could bring the two closer together.

August 31, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

RFID tags becoming easier to read

On the other hand, return on investment for packagers will remain invisible for the near term. Now Wal-Mart softens stance on deadlines.

August 31, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

RFID tags becoming easier to read

On the other hand, return on investment for packagers will remain invisible for the near term. Now Wal-Mart softens stance on deadlines.

August 31, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Companies

Rockwell Automation opened a new radio-frequency identification (RFID) test lab at its global headquarters in Milwaukee. The lab is designed to help manufacturers facing production and inventory mandates from retailers understand how they can make RFID part of their distribution operations.

July 31, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Drug companies test RFID on pharma bottles

A group of pharmaceutical manufacturers has revealed that it began shipping bottles of prescription medications with radio-frequency identification tags July 12.

July 31, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Wal-Mart VP to address RFIDfresh seminar

Michigan State University will present “RFIDfresh, Meeting Retailer Requirements and Challenges in the Perishables Packaging Supply Chain,” Sept. 21-22 at the Monterey, CA, Marriott Hotel.

July 31, 2004

Conveying & accumulation

RFID Provides Supply Chain Management Solutions

Radio frequency identification (RFID) has emerged in response to the increasing demand for accuracy and efficiency in supply chain management. Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation has dedicated their resources to researching and developing RFID solutions.

July 31, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

University of Florida: UF's RFID test portal

The University of Florida's new Research Center for Food Distribution and Retailing now includes five radio-frequency identification portals.

June 30, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Survey: What's the value of RFID/EPC?

A number of manufacturing executives in the United States and Europe who weighed in on this survey remain unconvinced of the benefits of RFID/EPC.

June 30, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

"Go deeper" on RFID

“Get your toe in the water, get used to it, and then go deeper.” Those words of advice about radio-frequency identification are from J. Michael Wallace, director, process and package development, Ross Products Div. of Abbott Laboratories, makers of nutritional products including Ensure and Similac.

June 30, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

RFID enabled label printers

Tharo Systems offers the Easylabel® labeling software equipped with an RFID Wizard. Printers currently supported include the RFID-enabled Zebra and Printronix thermal-transfer label printers.

June 30, 2004

Conveying & accumulation

UF juiced for R&D

The University of Florida’s packaging department kicks off with a full slate of applied research projects including these for food and RFID.

June 30, 2004