Industrial Barcode Reader Blog

Regardless of your level of knowledge or expertise a closer look at 1-D barcode technology, there are always new things to learn.

• Managing Barcode Quality: Do You Need a Verifier?

  04-04-2018 - Naomi Brown

  From brand owners and manufacturers to packagers and retailers, people across industries use barcodes to track their products from production to the point of sale. A fail...read more

  

• Do More With Your Mobile Device: Mobile Barcode Reading Solutions

  02-23-2018 - Bryan Boatner

  Logistics and manufacturing operations rely on barcode reading to track, trace, and sort items to improve workflow processes at every stage. But fixed-mount and handheld ...read more

  

• A Guide to the Humble Barcode

  01-31-2018 - Caroline Smart

  Decades after the first scan, barcodes continue to grow in necessity and expand their application It might be hard to remember a time before barcodes, but it wasn’t until ...read more

  

• A closer look at 1-D barcodes

  05-17-2016 - Bryan Boatner

  1-D barcodes are linear codes that contain up to 25 characters of numeric-only or alphanumeric data. Each character in the code represents something different about the pr...read more

  

• What are barcodes and how are they read?

  04-12-2016 - Bryan Boatner

  Barcodes are everywhere. They are on the side of your soda bottle, on soup can labels, printed in advertisements and engraved almost every engine part in your car. But, wh...read more

  

• What happens in Vegas inspires innovation for factory automation

  10-09-2015 - Bryan Boatner

  My colleagues and I just returned from PACK EXPO Las Vegas, the world’s premier packaging and processing tradeshow. We welcomed a record number of visitors at our food saf...read more

  

• There's even an app for that

  09-30-2015 - Kasey Tipping

  Your phone wakes you up at 6am and you roll out of bed. While you make your coffee, you check your emails and browse your Facebook feed. You consult the weather app to d...read more

  

• 3 simple ways to increase throughput and cut costs in your distribution center

  08-03-2015 - Matt Engle

  Did you know increasing your read rates from 99% to 99.8% could save you $1 million each year? Did you know that by minimizing package gaps from 6.6” to 3.5” you could sav...read more

  

• Cognex revs up 2D barcode reading 2D matrix and challenging DPM codes even without perimeters

  12-15-2014 - Bryan Boatner

  Cognex Corporation (NASDAQ: CGNX), the world's leader in machine vision, today announced its PowerGrid™ technology, a texture-based location algorithm that takes a unique,...read more

  

• Cognex saved the holidays

  12-12-2014 - Matt Engle

  Did you hear? Cognex saved the holidays!  “Santa’s distribution centers” reported record high read rates with DataMan barcode readers....read more