Industrial Machinery News

A barcode (also bar code) is a means of optically reading a graphic representation of data.  The original barcodes represented data in the widths and spacing of parallel lines.  The graphic ‘pictures’ were originally vertical lines with varying widths and spaces.  Now you can find barcodes using patterns of dots, squares, hexagons and other geographic patterns.  All these patterns are categorized as barcodes.

 

Barcodes were first used in the railroad transportation industry for identifying rail cars.  Success came when barcodes were widely used in the food grocery stores and markets.  They have almost become universal throughout the world and used every day.  Coding solutions are now found in almost every industry.  Marking and coding equipment use special marking and coding software to scan and identify packages for use in inventory control systems.  The integration of barcode scanners has allowed for higher accuracy and lower inventory throughout industry.  Barcode readers and scanners are now common place in many stores and shops.  The ease and simplicity of there design coupled with the automatic cost control functions has made them a must have for many businesses.  Industrial coders and coding machines follow the same principles.  They can be found in a wide range of applications similar to that found in today’s supermarkets.  This versatile device can be integrated in to a modern manufacturing process to include industrial print control, package labeling equipment and other marking and coding equipment.

 

Today’s fast paced ‘just in time’ scheduling owe a lot to the now common barcode (bar code) device.