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Leap of Faith High costs and questionable reliability have meant that RFID tagging has not taken off as expected. Neil Falconer from Pira Consulting tells PCI why he believes intelligent packaging can...
Intelligent Barcodes Imagine a world where every item is tagged so that you always know exactly where it is in the supply chain. You could automatically know when shelves were empty. If Philip Clarke, Tesco's...
Shelf Life According to IGD, shelf-ready packaging is an increasingly popular means of addressing supply chain challenges. However, it is not necessarily the solution for all products and all...
Chipless RFID: the End Game Chipless RFID tags offer the tantalising prospect of being printed directly on products and packaging for just 0.1¢, and could one day replace 10 trillion barcodes a year. Raghu Das,...
An Evolution in Unit Identification PCI looks at the past, present and very bright future for the migration from bar codes to RFID/EPC in the supply...
Counterfeiting: A Global Problem As counterfeit drugs continue to permeate markets on both sides of the Atlantic, pharmaceutical packaging and distribution systems are being developed to get to grips with the issue. PCI looks...
Latin America looking up With much of Latin America showing signs of recovery from a period of uncertainty, Peta Conn, head of consumer packaging research at Euromonitor International, runs through the findings of...
Is RFID a danger? As RFID is slowly becoming an accepted norm for companies fighting counterfeit and improving logistics, Lukas Grunwald, Boris Wolf and Nicholas Walker of DN Systems, warn that maybe not...
Smartly Wrapped Smart packaging can dramatically improve security and logistical issues. John Hayward, manager of packaging engineering, describes how smart packaging has been adopted at Hewlett...
Intelligent Design The possibilities that smart packaging offers are vast and unpredictable. Dr Peter Harrop of IDTechEx runs through some of the exciting and impressive technologies available to the packaging...
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