Traceability… just a legal question?

If traceability fundamentally found its development thanks to international regulations, first in food and next in non-food security, it's commonly admitted that these were a fantastic accelerator for the awareness by companies of its numerous advantages. Economical imperatives establish that efficient and performing logistics and productions only can be ensured by products and transaction's complete traceability. It also has to be the first reason for tools adaptation.

GS1 international studies clearly show that traceability allows a half-stock reduction in logistic chains, upstream as well as downstream; that traceability tools, automatic identification and EDI allow a significant decrease of operations costs, and at least, that traceability extended to the sales front increases sales by a better sale-to-ask-adequation.

Traceability is also a wonderful marketing tool: as everyone knows, "years are necessary to build a brand's reputation, but only a few days can destroy it", or at least strongly damage it with the consequences everyone imagines.

So traceability, just a moral and security imperative?
With nowadays economical conditions, expertise can't be separated from a deep ROI study. On the basis of the advantages and lacks of a production line considered in its globality, UP trace makes a complete synthesis to advise and set up the most adapted solutions, adequate to the company's economical and reglementary imperatives.

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Power and High Resolution for UBS Aplink UV

Designed to print texts, images and high quality barcodes fulfilling GS1 international standards, the High Resolution Inkjet printing systems of APLINK UV series from UBS provide a perfect codification upon any type of secondary packing - corrugated carton boxes, glossy boxes and even plastics - and this, thanks to their UV-ink polymerisation technology, fully integrated in the printhead.

With their 180 or 360 dpi resolution, at more than 30 m/min, and to a maximal print lenght of 3 m, they easily integrate on any production line, allowing a printing in both senses. The powerful interface and the 5,7'' touch screen contribute to an optimal accessibility to saved informations (formats, messages), even while equipment keeps running.

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Sensitive intelligence of Sick industrial readers

With its particularly high scanning speed (up to 500 scans/second), the Sick IDM140 BT scanner today offers excellent reading performances and an increased productivity: even barcodes partially or strongly damaged are rapidly and correctly read.

With the BlueTooth version, working at a 30 m distance from the base is not a constraint anymore, thanks to its integrated buffer.

The tested robustness of the housing and its ergonomic design make this reader a perfectly adapted tool for an industrial use while keeping an extremely attractive price.

The Lector 620 makes it possible the identification of unaligned goods thanks to a reliable omnidirectional reading of 1D and 2D codes, even with poor contrasts.

Through its numerous versions, it's a highly adaptable solution for diverse applications in terms of resolution and reading distance.

Forward-looking, it will evolve with the code changes.

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Siemens SIMATIC RF670:
data's maximal transparency for an extreme efficiency

In the RF600 radiofrequency systems range, the brand new Simatic RF670 and its set of UHF write and read devices offer a lot of new possibilities of "Tracking & Tracing" along the complete process chain, from the inbound logistics via production to outbound logistics.

With integral processing logic for up to four remote RFID antennas, it answers all your imperatives in terms of efficiency, competivity and also adaptability to your customer's requests.

Case Study in the agro-alimentary sector

• Goal: ensuring food containing wooden boxes traceability for a better stock management and a precise follow-up at the MES level
• Used technology: Siemens RFID UHF all included reader (antenna and reader) Simatic RF620
• Customer's benefits: process time reduction, complete traceability of the wooden boxes (and thus of their content), correspondance to legal norms in terms of traceability

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With SATO, discover your sector's ideal print solution

With its experience on different markets and in various applications, UP trace proposes a large range of SATO direct thermal or thermal transfer printing solutions to answer to low price and low or medium print quantity needs in industrial hard environments.

Thanks to the high printing speed and robustness of these advanced printers, SATO is able to offer the perfect solution allowing to optimize your activity, by reducing costs and increasing productivity.

Feel free to consult us, we'll share our experience with you!

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Successful Packaging Fair
« Salon de l'Emballage » in Paris

We largely announced it in these columns, the Packaging Fair « Salon de l'Emballage » in Paris from November 22nd-25th was the opportunity for UP trace to expose its perfect complementarity with some of its partners.

The packaging and traceability complete functional solution exposed in partnership with the companies Imatec, EPC and ACSLux was really successful and attracted many people on our luxembourg colored booth.

You came in large numbers and we really thank you there for!

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