Well-designed barcode and labeling systems in areas such as the warehouse and distribution centers have proven effective ways to save costs by increasing worker productivity and accuracy. Managers in these areas who have looked at their operations, analyzed the workflow for duplication and waste, studied how equipment was being used – or not used and […]
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Portable Power From Newcastle
No, this lady isn’t moving a microwave oven. This is the new PowerPack system from our good friends at Newcastle Systems. We have been fans of the Mobile Workstation that Newcastle builds for ages, being able to move your workstation to right where it is needed, even if no power is available at that point is something […]
Hospital Visitor Control
How do you control who visits your hospital? We get to visit a lot of healthcare organizations and it is interesting to see the different ways that access to the building is controlled. The main methods seem to be: Do nothing. At a lot of healthcare facilities, most of the buildings have no control at all and anyone […]
Check Your Answers to our Quiz!
A couple of weeks ago we presented a fun quiz to test your knowledge of commonly used barcodes. If you haven’t taken our quiz yet, we present it again. See if you can identify all the barcode formats without looking at the answers! A – Code 39 The first alpha-numeric symbology developed and […]
Seafood Traceability
If you are involved in the seafood supply chain, you are probably aware that seafood traceability was included in the Bioterrorism Act of 2002 and confirmed by the more recent (but very slow moving) Food Safety Modernization Act of 2010. One of the goals of these acts is to be able track food items in […]
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