Track & Trace with networked marking and code verification

Latest video from the "REA Marking Professionals" shows reliable systems for consumer and counterfeit protection

Mühltal, September 15, 2021 - Track & Trace systems serve supply chain transparency and consumer protection. In their latest video, which went online today, the "Marking Professionals" from REA Elektronik show which systems ideally work together to achieve this. Daniel Wege (Business Development Manager) and Frank Debusmann (Sales Director national coding and marking systems) visited the company WIPOTEC-OCS in Kaiserslautern, which specializes in food and pharmaceutical applications.

A food or medical product is only safe if its origin can be fully traced. For real counterfeit protection, it has to be possible to determine the location of a product within the supply chain at all times. To ensure this, many companies develop "tinkering solutions" consisting of code printers and verification cameras that they connect to production, reports Volker Ditscher, Director Global Sales Track & Trace at WIPOTEC-OCS. "There are often three different subsystems involved - each one has to be trained, trained, operated and maintained individually," he explains. "In addition, the printer doesn't talk to the camera and the camera doesn't talk to the printer - this produces enormous complexity in connection with the machine." As an alternative, WIPOTEC-OCS has developed a user-friendly turnkey system in which the machine, printing system and camera communicate with each other for reliable marking and code verification.

The company opted for systems from REA for code creation and verification because REA was "the only supplier that could provide a suitable interface," says Ditscher, referring to the REA TITAN Platform single operating concept for all printing systems. What else spoke in favor of Marking Professionals from REA Elektronik and which REA printers and code verification systems are integrated into the overall solution from WIPOTEC-OCS - all this can be seen in the latest video from the marking professionals.

The REA Marking Professionals continue their search for exemplary solutions - and on October 15, they will put the next episode of their video series "REA Marking Professionals on Site" online on the REA website. It will be interesting to see where the journey takes us next.