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What does the MTBF or MTTF specification given by manufacturers mean?
Mean time between failures (MTBF) is the mean (average) time between failures of a system, and is often considered the "useful life" of the device i.e. not including 'infant mortality' or 'end of life' if the device is not repairable. Calculations of MTBF assume that a system is "renewed", i.e. fixed, after each failure, and then returned to serv… Continue
Posted by David Chee on June 25, 2009 at 11:21am
PRINTING COMPLIANT BAR CODES ON SECONDARY PACKAGES
This article is taken from PMT
http://www.pmtdirect.com/website/article.asp?id=3811
PRINTING COMPLIANT BAR CODES ON SECONDARY PACKAGES
THE GLOBAL TRADE ITEM NUMBER IS USELESS IF IT DOESN'T CONFORM TO INTERNATIONAL PRINTING STANDARDS
BY RICK FOX
If the U.S. Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) industry is ever going to benefit from sharing supply chain information between trading partners, the current status of the quality of GS1 Global Trade Item Number (G… Continue
Posted by David Don on June 2, 2009 at 8:40am — 5 Comments
Capital Equipment Justification: Key Tax Issues
Posted by Tom Meutsch on June 1, 2009 at 11:29am — 1 Comment
The importance of using the right scanner when comparing label barcodes vs. inkjet barcodes
Direct bar code printing on corrugated boxes has been an accepted standard for 15 ye… Continue
Posted by Jim Constantine on May 27, 2009 at 8:00pm — 1 Comment
ITF (I 2 of 5) barcode magnifications
Base on my research the following are the various magnifications for ITF barcode. This will be helpful when we want to compare a standard ink usage across different competitive products printing for example a standard 62.5% ITF barcode.
70%
Overall Height 1.260"
Overall Length 4.314"
62.5%
Overall Height 0.880"
Overall Length 3.627"
100%
Overall Height 1.25" ,
Overall Length 6"
Posted by David Chee on May 21, 2009 at 10:08am — 1 Comment
History of Walmart and RFID
June 2003: Wal-Mart’s then CIO Linda Dillman announces the start of the retailer’s EPC compliance program at a meeting of the VICS organization, saying Wal-Mart would ask its top 100 suppliers to begin tagging pallets and cases starting in January 2005.
August 2003: Wal-Mart says it will require all of its suppliers to put RFID tags carrying Electronic Product Codes on pallets and cases by the end of 2006… Continue
Posted by David Don on May 20, 2009 at 10:00am
Technical Problems with RFID
The retailer plans to use a 96-bit EPC with a Global Trade Identification Number, an international standard. It is only interested in tags that operate in the UHF spectrum, which was defined as 868 MHz to 956 MHz. Class 1, Class 0 and Class 0 Plus (a read-write version of Class 0) tags are acceptable, but Dillman said Wal-Mart would like to see suppliers to move to Class 1 version 2 as soon as the specific… Continue
Posted by David Don on May 20, 2009 at 10:00am
GTIN implementation in the Produce Industry
The produce industry handles an estimated 6 billion cases of produce in the United States each year. Most produce can be tracked from company to company through the supply chain, provided companies comply with the one step forward and one step back requirements of the U.S. Bioterrorism Act of 2002. In addition, since 1930 U.S. produce companies have been required to retain records under the U.S. Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act to prov… Continue
Posted by David Chee on May 10, 2009 at 12:30pm — 2 Comments
Windows XP Embedded Advantages
1. Strips out all the unnecessary windows components leaving a smaller foot print for the operating system, around 500mb. This allows us to utilize the more industrial flash drives which provide better durability in industrial environments.
2. XP Embedded comes with write protect. On the main drive where the operating is stored, we write protect this drive. Any changes… Continue
Posted by David Don on April 10, 2009 at 5:55am
Calibrate the Printer
encoder-ticks-per inch and pen positions relative to the product
sensor. This document describes the procedure installation technicians
should follow to determine these settings and enter them into the
application software.
These settings not only affect "pen-crossing-alignment" but also actual
print quality (i.e. image and character edge sharpness). If they are not
set properly then optimum print quality will be never be achie… Continue
Posted by David Don on April 9, 2009 at 8:19am
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