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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, [...]

The Perfect Universal Verifier First let’s define terms:  a “universal” verifier is one that tests both 1D or linear barcodes and 2D or matrix symbols. UPC, Code 128 and ITF14 are examples of 1D [...]

Most people understand why a smart phone or a scanner is not the same thing as a verifier for testing a 2D symbol. Smart phones and scanners can only decode a Data Matrix or QR Code. A verifier [...]

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 [...]

What does the verifier grade mean regarding scanning? Does an A grade guarantee scanning success? Does an F grade guarantee scanning failure? We wrote on this topic a while ago, and although the [...]

So far so good with the Drug Quality and Security Act (DQSA) and the supply chain safety initiatives it includes. Now begins the formidable task of actually making it effective—and there is much [...]

For those of us familiar with verifying 1D barcodes like UPC and Code 128, migrating into 2D symbols like QR Code or Data Matrix seems very complicated. Why is that? With 1D barcodes it was a [...]

My mother always admonished my siblings and me that people would listen and learn more from a positive message than from a negative one. I hope she will forgive me for taking several years before [...]

May the barcode industry rest in peace. Last week at the National Retail Federation trade show in New York City, a bunch of us “first generation” (AKA old) barcode industry types ran into each [...]

In 2009 the global consulting and technology organization Accenture recognized risk management as moving beyond compliance. In 2011 they saw risk management as a source of competitive advantage. [...]