Good companies cruise through recessions, great ones learn from them. If there’s one area that seems to be analyzed and optimized whenever markets slow, it’s the supply chain management and logistics, and it’s easy to see why. On a rainy Monday morning, a purchasing manager entered his large office and took a seat at his [...]
Microsoft announced its Microsoft Tag alternative to QR codes, and life goes on as it did before. By this I mean that there was no massive shakedown of the industry just yet, and while products pushed by giants such as MS should never be ignored, let’s take a brief look at the future of QR [...]
This morning, I came across a support forum post that struck me as very typical: We are using NiceLabel Pro with asp.net to print on some standard 8.5 x 11 sheet of labels, we have multiple size we want to use. So we are putting each one in different tray in the printer. These labels need to [...]
Are your first-read bar code rates substandard? You might be getting fined by your retailers. Before you do, read up on how to avoid the problem with proper testing.
With RFID falling under scrutiny for proven EMI effects, how long can we afford to believe the disproven myth of mobile phone EMI? Time will tell, but it does seem that the mobile phone will inevitably become a powerful tool both in terms of communication, as well as AIDC in the hospital environment of tomorrow.
Databar (formerly known as RSS code) offers drastically increased data capacity in a smaller and more condensed bar code format than was provided by UPC/EAN. GS1 has said what it thinks, and so have the retailers. You’ll have to print it by 2010.
