Videos of Omega's Track and Trace Serialization Solution:
What is Pharma Track-n-Trace
The primary goal of FDA standards and ePedigree laws is to protect consumers from contaminated medicine and counterfeit drugs. To do this, companies must keep track of their products along the supply chain down to the unit (container) level.
Although compliance dates and final standards are constantly changing and vary per state, the pharmaceutical industry widely accepts that the definitive requirement will involve serialization.
Omega Design, with its experience and leadership in container unscrambling and shrinkbundling technologies, is uniquely positioned to incorporate 2D dot matrix serialization within new and existing packaging lines without compromising machine speeds or accuracy. Omega’s Track and Trace Serialization is a cost effective, easy-to-implement solution that will seamlessly fit within your overall ePedigree strategy.
Omega's Track-n-Trace Solution
Bottom Coding
Omega Unscramblers can quickly print and verify a unique ID (data matrix or other marking) on the bottom of every empty container. This unique ID contains enough information to keep track of the container temporarily on the packaging line.
Omega Design is the only manufacturer able to offer the packaging industry a complete printing solution within a single unscrambling frame. Using a patented rotary pocket system, Omega Design’s Container Unscrambler can maintain full control over your containers as they pass through the printing, verification and rejection stations.
Thus, you can be sure with high reliability that every container leaving the machine will have a readable container ID or marking that can help you track your products throughout production.
Labeling and Syncing
Downstream, containers will receive a larger, permanent and fully serialized label, which will be recognizable to an end-user along the supply chain.
As soon as this label gets applied to the container's body, a camera and serialized software management system will sync the label code with the container's ID.
Aggregate Scanning
When it’s time for final packaging, an Omega Shrinkbundler can quickly group and wrap the containers into a bundle.
Upon exiting the heat tunnel, each bundle will pass over a camera system, which reads the container IDs (on the bottom of the containers) and identifies the containers in the bundle. A new label can now be placed on the bundle to establish the parent-child relationship.
For More Information:
Do you find yourself confused with data matrix serialization? If so, then check out Omega's tip sheet
, which explains frequently cited terms and concepts.