Jointown uses RFID technology to keep the cold chain of medicines from “broken chain”
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The whole cold chain is an important guarantee for the quality and safety of refrigerated medicines such as vaccines. Cold chain guarantees are required for production, delivery, transportation, storage, and terminals. It is the most basic principle of cold chain logistics not to “break the chain”, otherwise it may cause the vaccine to fail and affect the safety of people’s lives.
It is very difficult to trace the origin of drugs that have quality problems in the field of circulation. Liu Weizhan, secretary general of the Cold Chain Logistics Sub-Technical Committee of the National Logistics Standardization Technical Committee, is deeply concerned about the loopholes in the current pharmaceutical cold chain logistics. Due to the lack of a unified pharmaceutical cold chain implementation standard in my country, the level of cold chain process control in various pharmaceutical companies is uneven. At this stage, not all companies engaged in cold chain logistics can provide temperature monitoring and control records, and there are still problems such as insufficient temperature control in the process of cold chain transportation. Because there is no temperature control record, once a logistics link is “broken”, it is difficult to investigate which link has the problem.
At present, the whole process of cold chain and real-time temperature control is an urgent problem that needs to be solved in front of pharmaceutical companies, cold chain logistics companies and regulatory authorities. The development of the cold chain logistics industry also urgently needs to establish unified logistics norms and operating standards as support.
Enterprises use informatization to carry out real-time temperature control throughout the whole process
Due to technical limitations, some logistics companies currently use manual temperature confirmation for temperature management, but this method is limited to measurement during shipment and purchase, and there is a lack of continuous temperature control data in the transportation link. How to achieve real-time temperature monitoring and control in the whole process is one of the key points and difficulties in the cold chain management of pharmaceutical companies.
At the end of last year, Jiuzhoutong Pharmaceutical Group invested 300 million yuan to establish Shanghai Jiuzhoutong Modern Pharmaceutical Logistics Center. This new logistics center has introduced a number of modern logistics information management technologies, including the application of NEC’sRFID(commonly known as electronic label) technology to manage the temperature of the whole cold chain management system.
Li Hua, deputy general manager of the Manufacturing and Device Solutions Division of NEC China IT Service Division, told reporters that in the cold chain logistics process, RFID technology is mostly used in the management of high value-added logistics systems such as food and medicine.By placing an RFID tag with a temperature sensor in the refrigerator when the medicine leaves the warehouse, the cargo information, including the temperature of the medicine, is stored in real time.RFIDin the chip. After the goods arrive, the goods and temperature information can be read in batches through the handheld reader, which can realize the instantaneous acquisition of the temperature information in the whole process, and reduce labor costs and error rates.
Jointown has achieved reliable temperature management through continuous temperature tracking throughout the whole process. Next, Jointown will gradually promote the RFID temperature tracking system to the whole company, and will continue to expand the demand according to the actual application.
In addition to pharmaceutical companies, some third-party logistics companies are also applyingFRIDTechnology to achieve professional management of cold chain logistics.
The traditional temperature recorder is connected to the relevant equipment by wire and reads the corresponding temperature data, while the application of RFID temperature tag does not need to open the cold chain turnover box, the outside reader can automatically read the cold chain box through radio frequency. The temperature of the goods is recorded, the cold chain will not be broken, and the temperature of the product in transit can be known at any time.
postedRFIDThe labelled cold chain box is like having an electronic “ID card”.
The “ID card” can record all the information of the goods, including the real-time temperature information of the goods. When a batch of cold chain turnover boxes leaves the warehouse, the reader can read the information of all RFID temperature tags in each cold chain incubator of the batch at one time. This automates the information entry of the cold chain turnover box in and out of the warehouse, shortens the time and ensures the accuracy of the in and out information. When the amount of goods is large, the automatic reading of information in and out of the warehouse can solve the bottleneck problem in the logistics operation.
At present, Songleng and NEC are still jointly exploring the integration of multiple technologies.RFIDThe temperature label technology is integrated with GPS technology and cold chain information system. After reading the temperature record data of goods during transportation, it will be automatically uploaded to the temperature control data information platform. Customers can download the corresponding record data from the Internet at any time, so as to realize the realization of goods. In-transit information query, real-time temperature monitoring and geographic location tracking will fill the gap in temperature control in cold chain transportation.
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