REA Elektronik - TOP Pharma Tech Solutions Provider in Europe 2022

Over 60 percent of drug and medical device recalls in the pharmaceutical market are due to labeling issues raised to avoid life-threatening errors each year.

An inconsistent process is often the reason for such errors. Marking, labeling and code verification are usually carried out at different workstations, resulting in missing production lot numbers, label mix-ups and incorrect packaging.

REA Elektronik is changing this status quo by offering "print-apply-verify" from a single source.

Our various practical products have proven themselves in a wide range of industries worldwide

REA is active in three international business areas: industrial coding and marking, labeling and code verification. The REA JET TITAN Platform is the universal operating concept for all REA coding and marking technologies across all devices and industries.

"Our platform offers industry-independent solutions along the entire production chain, be it for a state-of-the-art interface architecture, designs for all languages, fonts and symbols or full integration into machines as an OEM solution for machine builders and integrators," says W. Pauly, Managing Director at REA Elektronik.

REA Elektronik also helps to maintain overall equipment effectiveness (OEE). This is an important key figure for packaging operations and productivity. In simple terms, it indicates what percentage of production time is actually productive. An OEE value of 100 percent means that a company produces only good parts, as fast as possible and without downtime. The integration of coding, marking and labeling systems sometimes comes into conflict with the OEE of the entire system. But REA Elektronik's high-quality and customized solutions ensure that the OEE always remains high and that customers benefit from higher profitability and lower production costs.

"Our various practice-oriented products have proven themselves in a wide range of industries worldwide. For example, our REA JET High Resolution Inkjet Printer, REA JET HR pro OEM, is the first choice for fast serialization applications and is designed to be fully integrated into machines and systems. Its controller has the smallest dimensions in its class and fits into any machine or control cabinet. In addition, up to four print heads can be connected and its extremely powerful processor makes it powerful enough to meet future marking requirements," says Michael Neuschäfer, Managing Director at REA Elektronik.

The contact-free small character inkjet printer REA JET (SC) 2.0 prints 1 to 8 lines of text, data, barcodes and logos in high resolution with a print height of up to 12 mm.

The REA JET CL laser system and the REA LABEL ES labeling system are other high-quality, user-friendly products that guarantee customers efficiency and flexibility. The REA VERIFIER Code verification systems for 1D Barcodes and 2D Matrix Codes verify the optimal readability and structure of stacked or combined optical codes, according to international standard specifications or requirements.

These products have helped a large contract manufacturing organization (CMO) to serve their pharmaceutical customers worldwide. The customer uses REA JET HR pro OEM, REA JET SC 2.0 and REA JET CL, while controlling their processes with the TITAN Platform and verifying the codes with the REA VERIFIER. The process offers a high level of process-reliability and a double maximum of flexibility for production planning and meeting the different coding and marking requirements of customers, including many international customers with strict requirements and conditions due to their market needs.

Today, REA Elektronik has a 400-strong workforce made up of coding and marking, labeling and code verification departments. Continuous research and development in all product lines makes REA products the first choice for almost all industrial coding and marking applications, from demanding pharmaceutical applications to the rough industrial environments in steel processing plants.