94 results about "Lot number" patented technology

The present invention provides an improved method of handling product recall activities through traceability. One embodiment of the present invention involves gathering data in a multi-layered database architecture containing supply, process, test, and customer layers. The data is supplied to a traceability module which contains a search engine to link and access the data. The search engine enables a search by part number, lot number, serial number, time stamp, and date/time frame. A traceability analysis is generated from the search, allowing failure analysis of the data. This analysis is performed through an event list over the entire supply, manufacturing, and customer data, facilitating backward and forward traceability of parts and components of the parts. This failure analysis further facilitates automatic response such as automatic warning and automatic recall to manufacturers and customers.

A surgical system and cassette, the cassette having an identification method that is specific to the cassette. Suitable methods include bar coding or Radio Frequency Identification (“RFID”). Cassette information that may be encoded include features such as lot number and performance characteristics, such as pressure sensor calibration data, flow and pressure data and any other performance characteristics of the cassette captured during testing of the cassette at manufacture.

An integrated dispensing and inventory tracking system is provided for use in conjunction with a medical practice. Data records of inventoried items, such as repackaged drugs or other medical supplies, can be maintained by the system and accessed by a user through a graphical user interface displayed by a browser. The data records can include information pertaining to user-defined inventory categories, minimum and maximum quantities associated with tracked inventory items, quantities on hand associated with tracked inventory items, lot numbers associated with tracked inventory items, and/or related information. Inventory data records can be updated in real time in response to dispensing transactions and/or deliveries of additional inventory items. Various alert status conditions can also be detected by the system, allowing users of the system to be notified of circumstances requiring immediate attention.

A product code includes an item code 30a, an individual article code 30b and a detail code 30c. The item code 30a is a code specifying an item to which the product belongs, such as a JAN code. The individual article code 30b is a code identifying the product uniquely, such as a bar code indicating a lot number or a serial number marked on the product at the time of manufacturing. The detail code 30c is a code indicating detail information of the product including information about the sources of the product, and component parts, raw materials or ingredients of the product. The detail code 30c is, for example, a two-dimensional code describing parts and raw materials, a production place and feed and chemicals used in the raising process if the product is livestock meat or cultivated fish, etc., and chemical fertilizers and pesticides used for the ingredients if the product is food, as the detail information of the product according to MRP.

A key assembly having an identification member secured to the key. In one embodiment, the identification member includes a programmable device that contains information indicative of one or more characteristics of the key that can be used to identify at least one of a) the type of key, b) the type of key blank, c) an origination address, d) a destination address, e) a manufacturer, f) a manufacturing date, and g) a lot number. Another embodiment may include a key, and an identification member secured to the key, wherein the identification member includes a programmable device that contains information indicative of a) the key type, b) the type of key blank, and c) cutting instructions for a key cutter to determine cut characteristics. Additional embodiments may include an automobile key and an identification member secured to the automobile key, where in the identification member includes memory for use as mobile data storage.

Systems and methods may be provided for supporting drug or product recalls. The systems and methods may include receiving a healthcare transaction request from a pharmacy computer associated with a pharmacy, wherein the healthcare transaction request includes an identification of a prescribed drug or product; determining, based upon the identification of the prescribed drug or product, that the prescribed drug or product is associated with a recall; providing, in response to the determination that the prescribed drug or product is associated with the recall, a response that includes information for accessing a web portal interface; receiving, over the web portal interface, lot numbers associated with pharmacy inventory of the prescribed drug or product; determining that one or more of the received lot numbers are affected by the recall; and generating a notification identifying the received lot numbers that are associated with the pharmacy inventory.

A system and method for implementing embedded electronics in environments where radiation or extreme temperatures are used is disclosed. Embedded electronics are affixed to various components of a pharmaceutical system, thereby enabling the customer to download pertinent information about the component, such as lot number, date of manufacturer, test parameters, etc. Additionally, these electronics allow an array of functions and features to be implemented, such as integrity tests and diagnostics. The electronics in the pharmaceutical components utilize a technology that is not as susceptible to radiation and extreme temperatures as traditional electronics.

A semiconductor device manufacturing system is provided in which chip position information is read without removing resin from a package so that the cause of a failure can be quickly identified and removed and the yield of chips can be rapidly improved. A replacement address reading device reads redundancy addresses from a semiconductor device which is determined as faulty in a test performed after the semiconductor device has been sealed into a package. A chip position analyzing device estimates, from the combination of these redundancy addresses, a lot number, a wafer number and a chip number of the faulty semiconductor device. A failure distribution mapping device maps the distribution of faulty chips in each wafer in the lot based on these numbers thus obtained. A failure cause determining device identifies which manufacturing device or processing step has caused the failures in the wafer process based on the above distribution.

The present invention provides a system and method for real-time batch dispatching in a manufacturing process. The system includes a bottleneck equipment, a real-time dispatching module for calculating a time point of forming a batch and deciding the lot numbers of a plurality of products which are included in the batch at the time point, and a manufacturing execution system electronically connected to the bottleneck equipment and the real-time dispatching module for receiving the batch transmitted from the real-time dispatching module so as to choose the plurality of products according to the lot numbers and controlling the plurality of products to be simultaneously processed by the bottleneck equipment at the same time point.

The invention provides a method for generating random data on line. The method comprises the steps as follows: a client-side session id accessing a server is recorded; bitwise binary operation is carried out on all client-side session ids to generate a parameter d; original data is input; and the parameter d is used as a random seed to generate the random data. The random data is generated by recording the client-side session id accessing the server on line, generating the parameter d on line and using the parameter d as the random seed, thereby improving the efficiency and increasing the fairness and the satisfaction degree of the user. The invention also discloses a random data online generator and a random data online generating system. In the actual application, the random data online generating system can be a building opening quotation lot number remote live broadcasting system.

A system, method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for capturing human-readable text displayed on a unit dose package. In particular, identification information associated with a unit dose package may be used to determine a location and/or a format in which human-readable text, such as an expiration date or lot number associated with the corresponding unit dose medication, is displayed on the unit dose package. Once the location and/or format of the human-readable text has been determined, this information can be used in order to scan the unit dose medication and translate the human-readable text into machine-readable text using, for example, optical character recognition.

A method for tracing individual dies within stacked chip scale packages includes the steps of recording unique die identifiers from layers of marked dies and associating the unique identifiers with a die bonding substrate and the resulting die or stacked chip scale packages. The unique die identifiers are also associated with wafer numbers, x-y positions on a wafer, wafer lot numbers or any combination thereof.