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Everyone knows about end-use barcodes, when the finished product is scanned at point-of-sale: the visible, public, most familiar and most-talked-about use of barcode technology. One level [...]

We test lots barcodes and see a host of barcode problems. As a test lab, our vantage point shows us the range of things that can go wrong with barcodes. Even more interesting is insight into the [...]

Name the top supply chain buzzwords for 2018…. Omnichannel is a current trend according to Forbes. Advanced Analytics and Big Data abide as popular topics Blockchain still remains near the top of [...]

A chargeback is a fee or penalty imposed by a retailer for poorly performing barcodes on shipments received from vendors. Walmart is most often blamed (or credited) with inventing the chargeback, [...]

Barcode quality is increasingly important: barcodes are used in more critical applications than ever before. Matching a wristband barcode to the medications at bedside dosing in a hospital or [...]

The FDA Final Rule is enacted. UDI implementation will: Standardize the identification of medical devices in a globally harmonized way Improve public health initiatives to optimize automated [...]

So much technology is involved with barcodes, from designing and printing to scanning and decoding. It is often overlooked that this is as much art as science. It can be difficult to understand [...]

The 2014 Automatic Identification Teacher’s Institute convened at the University of Memphis. This great AIDC industry event recent relocated from its previous home at Ohio University in Athens, [...]

Another anniversary of the barcode and once again its future is in question. The demise has been predicted from the beginning. From the start, successful technology is threatened. But change [...]

Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analysis was initiated by the Gartner Group a few years ago. I believe I am the first to apply TCO thinking to barcode verifiers, and it is a very important and [...]