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Recently I ran across an excellent article* about Measurement Systems Analysis. The opening paragraph caught my attention: “Despite a persistent and incremental march toward automation, people [...]

The engineers have taken over. In order fulfillment, the current focus is on systems. They speak in acronyms. Here are just a few: WMS (Warehouse Management System) SCM (Supply Chain Management [...]

Decodability is one of the graded ISO parameters that determine barcode quality. Why test and grade a barcode for quality? This is done to predict with reasonable accuracy that the barcode scans [...]

When a barcode doesn’t scan it is almost always an emergency—a growing and unhappy checkout line, a patient lying in a hospital bed waiting for medication, or a chargeback notification from your [...]

“I’m Jeff. Not so much on writing but I got this invite to tell about being a quality guy, so here goes. I got a degree in QA management a few years back. So far it’s been good move for me [...]

Barcode verification tests for print quality and data structure. It predicts that the barcode can be scanned successfully by any scanner.  Barcode match—the third aspect of barcode quality, [...]

One of the mistakes often made in business is failing to ask the obvious question. Often the obvious question deserves a carefully considered answer: the answer to the obvious question is not [...]

The verifier is reporting low grades on your barcodes, consistently in the D and F range. Your scanner decodes them just fine. Which do you believe? What is the smart way to proceed? Verifier [...]

What do you really want in a barcode verifier? A simple question A simple question without a simple answer. At very least you want a grade, preferably an authoritative grade, one that will [...]

When barcodes scan incorrectly, or fail to scan altogether, it is always an unexpected event. It should not happen. There are five basic steps everyone can take to give a barcode every advantage [...]