Ronald Schneider, B.S.Pharm., M.H.A.; Jonathan Bagby, R.N., M.B.A., M.S.N.; Russ Carlson, R.N., B.S.N., M.H.A. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2008;65(23):2216-2219. In 1994 ...

Bar code printer/applicators streamline DCs (distribution centers), so why not consider the same strategy for RFID (radio frequency identification)? Integrated Solutions, December 2006 Written by: ...

The demise of Shelfie, a tool that allowed customers to link their print books to e-books, got me thinking about bar codes. Obviously, one method of linking print to its digital metadata is through ...

Forty years ago Thursday, the purchase of a 67-cent (U.S.) package of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit gum at a supermarket in Troy, Ohio, received what may have seemed like an undue amount of attention. With ...

The obituaries lauding the accomplishments of Norman Joseph Woodland, co-inventor of the bar code, also offer a cold rebuke of the man who claimed the same thing about himself: Jerome Lemelson. By ...

Bar coding is an automatic identification technology that allows data to be collected rapidly and accurately from all aspects of a company’s operations, including manufacturing, inspection, ...

George Laurer had no idea his design would reach well beyond retail outlets when he created the black line and number sets known as the modern bar code while working for IBM as an engineer. Forty ...

Every few years, the small town of Troy in Miami County, Ohio celebrates an historic occasion that for a few giddy weeks puts it on the world map of the grocery trade. At the time, National Cash ...

Every purchase evokes his design of the rectangular Universal Product Code. But although it became ubiquitous, he received no royalties. By Sam Roberts George J. Laurer, whose design of the vertically ...