Recently, a number of physician associations, group purchasing organizations, and other groups in the healthcare industry have petitioned Senate and House committees to set defined guidelines to implement a unique device identifier system. The Advancing Patient Safety Coalition (APS) petitioned a pair of Congressional committees to include in the latest FDA user fee agreements specific […]
Labeling Ideas
Browse through these labeling ideas to learn more about how you can utilize labeling machinery for you specific product requirements. Labeling machinery is versatile to accommodate diverse applications. View these articles to learn about labelers and labeling machinery along with labeling solutions.
Video: How Barcode Scanners Work
Did you ever wonder how a scanner reads a barcode? There’s a lot of science and engineering behind that red beam of light. The basic principle of a scanner is to analyze an image and process it in some way. Image and text capture (optical character recognition or OCR) allow you to save information to […]
Barcodes and Baseball – 2012
If you’ve been to one of our Winco ID events, you’ll know that we try hard to make them both educational and fun. Our new one promises to be the best yet! We are hosting “Barcodes and Productivity – A Home Run” on June 20th at the home of New Hampshire Fisher Cats Stadium, in the Bank […]
Beefing Up FDA Authority over Drug Supply
Yet another drug has been found to be a counterfeit; the U.S. Food and Drug Administration posted a warning recently about a counterfeit version of Adderall, the medication taken for ADHD disorder. Since about 80% of the active ingredients in many medications are produced overseas, there’s plenty of opportunity for counterfeiting along the convoluted and […]
Winner of WincoID Survey Drawing Is…
Congratulations to Kevin Slicer of New England Industries! Kevin was lucky number “501” which was drawn from the list of responders to our survey using Random.org. WincoID posted this survey to learn more about how people were using labels and barcodes, how they were keeping track of raw materials, WIP, finished product, or meeting traceability […]
NEW: Fade Resistant, Hi-Performance Label – No Outgassing
A manufacturer of Nickel Metal Hydride (NiMH) for today’s hybrid electric vehicles was required to label the energy storage systems with important warnings for the end consumer. The label they used was fading relatively quickly when exposed to the outdoor elements of sunlight and heat. The added heat of heavy-duty vehicle operations would cause the label to […]
GAO Report on UID Progress
The GAO (General Accounting Office) recently released a report on the IUID Program and has made suggestions of areas in need of improvement. Check out the full report here. One item that will be of interest to our Defense Contractor customers is that the GAO asks the DoD to do a better job of putting […]
Have You Taken Our Survey Yet?
Our iPad giveaway is almost over. If you haven’t yet participated in our survey, you still have time though. We will enter you into our drawing for a brand new iPad just for answering a brief set of online questions about your labeling. Our partners at Datamax-O’Neil are sponsoring our survey, which ends midnight on Wednesday, […]
More Changes to Food Labels?
According to a recent survey conducted by the International Food Information Council (IFIC), more Americans want additional information on food labels. The IFIC is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that communicates science-based information about food safety and nutrition to health professionals, government officials, and consumers. The “Consumer Perceptions of Food Technology” survey shows that 24% percent […]
Boston Show Review
This week, the Winco ID team was exhibiting at the Design & Manufacturing New England Show at the Boston Convention Center. Actually the whole concept of this show is very confusing, with three different exhibitions thrown together somewhat randomly in one room. Back in the heyday of electronics manufacturing in New England, this show was […]
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