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The Healthcare Distribution Management Association (HDMA) has just updated their guide for formatting, encoding, and placing bar codes on pharmaceuticals. The HDMA is the USA’s association representing primary healthcare distributors, and their aim is the safe and efficient distribution of healthcare products and services. As part of their mission, the HDMA creates and exchanges industry [...]

If you use flexible materials to package your products, then you know there are some special challenges to your labeling. The right package creates the appealing image the consumer will notice. But if your labeling is not right, you could lose more than a sale. For example, over the holidays I received a fine gourmet [...]

Social media and mobile sales have changed the way we relate, communicate, and conduct business. Eric Qualman, the author of the bestselling book, Socialnomics, said it best, “We don’t have a choice whether we do social media; the question is how well we do it.” Let’s look at the facts: Only 14% of people trust advertising; 93% of marketers [...]

Paul Greenberg defines social business as “the company’s response to the customer’s ownership of the conversation.” After taking the audience’s pulse at the Sales & Marketing 2.0 Conference, I realize that Greenberg’s definition is already a traffic light behind Main Street. The rapid rate at which companies integrate social media into their business operation is [...]

Do you need your labels to be in compliance with MIL-STD-130 or MIL-STD-129, but aren’t sure where to start? We have some options that might help. One option is to have us print them for you. You can take advantage of our label printing service and get 100% compliant RFID and UID preprinted labels. When you [...]

Labels are a big part of many manufacturing processes. Each step through the process can require different labels for different purposes. Some labels need to be removed at some point during manufacturing, while other must remain affixed for the life of the product. Finding the most cost-effective and efficient way to label products in multiple [...]

ISSUE: A custom metal fabrication shop/vehicle assembly facility had an arduous process for each unique vehicle they produced. Engineering would send the drawings down to the metal fabrication shop for the unique cut pieces from plate (including diamond pattern), and the structural angles for construction of the vehicle frames. The metal fabrication shop used a [...]

Success in warehouse, shipping and receiving, and distribution areas all comes down to efficiency, accuracy and maximum worker productivity. One way to increase productivity is having the ability to print and apply labels right at the point of activity-whether that be labeling a shelf when boxes are moved, a pallet being shipped, an order being [...]

  Today, passive passenger safety systems as airbags and belt pretensioners are standard in every car. To provide a fluent documentation of all steps of production, their manufacture needs to remain traceable at any time. This is where robust, maintenance-free fiber lasers are starting to play an important role. The lasers mark the parts non-stop [...]

Motorola Solutions is expanding its current services offering, which will include acting as a systems integrator for some larger deployments of radio frequency identification, particularly for Motorola’s customers that are retailers. To date, Motorola has sold its handheld, mobile and fixed RFID readers through resellers and systems integrators. The firm also installs and maintains equipment [...]