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Cardinal's Rx pilot results

The results of Cardinal Health’s RFID pilot were presented at the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Integrity conference, which was held in May and was sponsored by The Institute for International Research (www.iirusa.com). We had reported on the pilot last September before the findings were finalized (see www.packworld.com/view-21867).

Cardinal’s Pharmaceutical Technologies and Services (PTS) operations were recently divested and acquired by The Blackstone Group (www.blackstone.com). This information was shared by Renard Jackson, formerly VP/GM Global Packaging Services of Cardinal Health, Dublin, OH, and now with PTS. Key aspects:

 Single infrastructure ultra-high frequency technology for traceability at the item, case, and pallet level.

 Encoding done at production speeds using Gen 2 Class 1 tags including a new antenna form factor for pharmaceuticals.

 Used SNDC-96-bit data encoding at the item and case level. The overall system showed the capability to capture and store it as well as SSCC (Serial Shipper Container Code) format used for pallets.

Conclusions:

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