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Pharmaceutical Manufacturing and Packing Sourcer
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With the ever-present risk of industrial sabotage and the constant concern that a large lawsuit may find its way to the corporate desk as the result of an untraceable error, an increasing number of organisations, and in particular pharmaceutical companies, are looking for ways to make their production processes more secure and robust, backed up by ever more accurate traceability records. Data matrix is increasingly used to protect brands by the use of sequential but encrypted data. This article looks at how this technology has developed and how it is helping organisations to achieve these goals.
For over 30 years all sorts of products and items have been automatically identified using bar codes. This linear or one-dimensional array of lines of different thickness has become such a part of our daily lives that most people cannot remember when supermarkets checkouts depended upon the reading of an individual price label manually attached to every item. Just occasionally we are reminded of how slow this early process was when a bar code reader becomes intermittent and a queue quickly builds up.
For all their benefits, 1D bar codes do have some limitations; they are physically large, which limits their application on small items, they require good print quality to accurately render the different line widths that encode the data and high contrast between the bars and their background for reliable reading. For these reasons, the conventional 1D bar codes are limited in the amount of data they can contain, and are usually printed on high contrast labels which, in turn, are applied to the product or item to be identified.
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