Coding, Printing & Labeling

RFID tagging

Part of Accu-Sort's suite of Flexible Automation Solution Tools, FAST Tag is a turnkey automated solution for placing, tracking, and verifying RFID tags on cartons and pallets.

July 31, 2005

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

Hosted middleware management

Seeburger Inc. has released IDnet, the first hosted solution for RFID “slap and ship” compliance that targets smaller companies.

July 31, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Labelers upgradeable to RFID

Weber Marking Systems’ new RFID Ready program makes it possible for companies to obtain Weber label printers and printer-applicators that can be upgraded in the future to include the RFID technology.

July 31, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

RFID Center opens at U of Arkansas

The University of Arkansas at Fayetteville opened its RFID Research Center in June.

July 31, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

RFID impact on corrugated

The Fibre Box Association studies environmental and product impacts of RFID on corrugated containers.

July 31, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

The truly nickel tag

Why silicon is too pricy and why printed electronics make sense for the nickel RFID tag solution.

July 31, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

MIT's RFID implementation guidelines

MIT researchers offer basic guidelines to help end users to improve the performance of RFID systems.

July 31, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Tagged beer kegs

Sokymat is supplying RFID tags to TrenStar Inc. to track beer kegs for clients in the United Kingdom including Coors.

July 31, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

SIDEBAR: Deluxe testing and training

In anticipation of a move into RFID, Deluxe Media Services reviewed its processes even before it brought Manhattan Associates into the project.

July 31, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

New RFID consortium misses the mark

The recent announcement of the formation of a new intellectual property (IP) licensing consortium sounds like the same group that lost out in seeking free/open intellectual property is trying another approach.

July 31, 2005

Cartoning

The road to Las Vegas: PFM does M2P, IMA intros BFB CP18, ARC on ELAU

This week’s PACK EXPO Preview explains an alphabet soup of acronyms: PFM announces a Make2Pack machine, IMA intros side-loading case packer, ARC automation analyst reviews ELAU acquisition

July 31, 2005

Conveying & accumulation

Deluxe RFID solution is scalable

Deluxe Media Service’s RFID for boxed DVDs implemented at three distribution centers to meet a retailer mandate is flexible and scalable.

July 31, 2005

Closures

Colgate-Palmolive Nepal...

...might have to close Kathmandu plant due to Maoist insurgent guerrillas destabalizing the area. Local ancillary suppliers of tubes and closures, etc., expected to be hurt as well...

July 31, 2005