Application of Bar Code in Furniture Packaging Design

However, we should realize that although China's furniture manufacturing industry is huge, it is not strong. China's furniture design level, manufacturing technology and management level are still relatively backward, with the industrialized countries in the furniture manufacturing industry standardization, finalization, standardization and specialization of parts and components, production methods of highly mechanized, automated and collaborative mature Compared with industrialization, China's furniture industry is still immature. Especially in the new century of economic globalization and informationization, with the change of business environment, the borders between countries and countries can no longer block overseas enterprises with high efficiency and should be agile. Enterprises in the information age must The best companies in the world are shorter. Companies that meet customer needs and use information technology to improve operational efficiency and flexibility will dominate 21st-century production.

Therefore, if we do not use high-tech and advanced and applicable technologies to transform and upgrade the traditional industry of furniture, if we do not carry out the informatization construction of China's furniture manufacturing industry, we will once again lose the opportunities for China's furniture manufacturing industry to flood into the international furniture manufacturing industry.

After recognizing the informationization and importance of the furniture manufacturing industry, if informationization cannot be accurately understood, there can be no correct informationization action.

We start with the basic connotation of informatization: “The so-called enterprise informatization is a system that uses computer, network, and communication technologies to support the product development, production, sales, and service of enterprises, and realizes information collection, processing, and management. , networking, integration, efficient and real-time information flow, and ultimately achieving comprehensive supply chain management and e-commerce.”

Through the recognition of informationization, the construction of enterprise informatization requires systematic and organized management of increasingly complex internal and external information. To achieve this goal, suppliers, customers, materials, and other information must be managed in a unified manner and established. Complete database system. The automatic identification technology represented by barcode technology, as an important method and means of information management system, can play a significant role in the construction of manufacturing information. The use of bar code technology to collect, track and manage relevant information of enterprises can meet the needs of enterprises in information management such as incoming materials, material preparation, manufacturing, quality control, storage and transportation, marketing, and after-sales service. In order to promote the application of bar code technology in the informationization construction of furniture manufacturing, a preliminary discussion was made.

1 Barcodes Overview

1.1 The Generation and Development of Barcode Technology

Bar code refers to a tool that is printed out by a dedicated bar code printer to store certain information. The bar code technology represents the digital and symbolic information through graphics, and is used to represent the relevant information of the marker itself. It is a new technology based on computer science and modern optics.

Barcode technology was originally developed to solve the problem of time-consuming and error-prone when manually typing in short strings using a keyboard. In the United States, JT Kermode applied for the world's first barcode patent in 1934 ( U.S. Patent No. 1,985,035). Since the 1960s, bar code technology has begun to enter the practical stage. In 1970, the U.S. Uni-Code Association first used the Universal Product Code (UPC) in the grocery industry. In 1977, based on the UPC-12 code, the European Community formulated the "European Article Numbering" (EAN) which is the more perfect coding system for European Article Numbering. In 1981, the EAN organization developed into an international organization, the EAN International, and the EAN code has become a worldwide standard for product symbols.

With the continuous popularization of computer applications, bar code technology is widely used in the world. It has features such as good confidentiality, low error rate (typically up to 1 part per million), fast input, and strong applicability. It can be widely used. It has been used in fields such as postal communications and social services that need to track or manage the production of products, especially in the manufacturing industries such as electronic appliances, machinery, and automobiles in developed countries. It can be said that it is more capable in manufacturing industries. The application of bar code technology introduces deeper levels.

In December 1988, China established the “China Article Numbering Center”, which is responsible for the management of the country’s goods. In April 1991, it officially joined the EAN organization on behalf of China. The EAN organization put the top three in the EAN standard of 690-692. The code is allocated for use in our country. After this, bar code technology has been widely used in China's post and telecommunications systems, library and information, production process control, medical and health, transportation, commodity circulation and other fields, and has gradually appeared in the bar code technology industry, which is the further application of bar code technology in China. Promotion has laid a solid foundation.

1.2 Principles of Bar Code Technology

The bar code is a graphic identifier of a set of numbers or letters and symbols, which is composed of bars and spaces with different widths and different reflectivity, and is coded according to a certain coding rule (code system). That is, the bar code is a set of different thicknesses. According to certain rules, arrange the parallel lines of pitch. The bar code is a combination of different widths of these bars and spaces to represent different numbers or letter information. A different width combination represents a different character, and these bars and spaces are consecutively arranged together. , it forms the bar code we usually see. The common bar code is composed of black bars (abbreviated bars) and white bars (abbreviated empty bars) whose reflectances differ greatly.

When these information are read, the bar code information is scanned and extracted using a certain technical means or optical device, and then decoded, and the result is stored or output.

1.3 Types of Bar Codes

After continuous development, the types of barcodes have been developed to dozens of types, resulting in different symbologies (barcode code systems). The symbology of bar codes is different from the general symbol system, not just the data types that they represent. It also has many restrictions such as symbol safety, reading efficiency, and so on.

The types, characteristics, and applications of commonly used barcodes are shown in Table 1. Currently, the most frequently used code systems are: EAN code, UPC code, Code39 code, Code128 code, and UCC/EAN-128 code. The UPC code is mainly used in North America; the EAN code is an international common symbol system and is a fixed-length, non-meaningful bar code. It is mainly used with product identifiers; the UCC/EAN-128 code is coded by the International Association of Article Numbering and the United States. A specific bar code symbol jointly developed by the committee and used jointly. It is a continuous, non-fixed, meaningful high-density code used to indicate the date of manufacture, batch number, quantity, specifications, shelf life, receiving location, etc. More product information. There are also some code systems for some specific occasions. For example, Kudiba codes are used for tracking management in blood banks, libraries, parcels, etc. 25 yards are used for packaging, transportation, and international aviation systems for ordering tickets.

While the one-dimensional bar code technology has been widely used, the two-dimensional bar code technology represented by PDF417 has also been developed. With the advantages of large capacity, high density, diversified storage information, and anti-counterfeiting, it has been widely used. In addition, the two-dimensional bar code also has the advantages of low cost, information can move with the carrier, does not depend on the database and computer networks, security anti-counterfeiting performance, and so on. The emergence of two-dimensional bar codes is a milestone in the history of bar code development. It has qualitatively improved the application level of bar code technology and broadened the application field of bar code technology.

1.4 System Composition of Barcode Technology

Barcode technology involves four aspects of labeling technology, coding technology, identification technology, and printing technology. Usually a bar code application system should include three major modules: bar code scanning, bar code information collection and processing, and information feedback back to the central database.

2 The important role of barcode technology - to meet the requirements of the accuracy and timeliness of data construction, and to strengthen the ERP system

Barcode technology has become the most effective means to quickly and accurately strengthen enterprise supply chain management by collecting and tracking data at all stages of an enterprise. Its application solves the "bottleneck" problem of data entry data collection, and provides enterprises with powerful supply chain management. Technical Support. Barcode technology can also be combined with other automatic identification technologies and POS systems, EDI and other modern technologies to enable companies to understand the specific location of products on the supply chain and effectively shorten the lead time for making correct decisions.

The application of bar code technology in manufacturing industry came into being with the development of enterprise informationization. With the advent of the era of e-commerce, information technology has undoubtedly become an important means for enterprises to increase production efficiency and enhance product market competitiveness. Therefore, companies have implemented various management information systems such as ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning System) for each link of production, supply, and sales to help companies improve their operational efficiency and management level so that they can easily respond to changing market changes. Maximize customer satisfaction.

The implementation of the ERP system puts higher requirements on the real-time and accuracy of information in the processes of sales, production, and logistics. In order to exert the strong effectiveness of ERP, an efficient execution system is needed to actually coordinate the planning and production operations. Management and timely tracking and feedback on the implementation of the plan. As the overall level of China's furniture industry is not high, the scale of investment is small, the quality of employees needs to be improved, and the information base is relatively weak. These have seriously hindered the implementation of enterprise ERP, and even led to the failure of ERP system implementation. Because in the ERP system, the soul of the data, if the basic data supporting the operation of the ERP system is incorrect or incomplete in collection and transmission, the decision system can only obtain incomplete and inaccurate results.

Barcode technology provides the best data collection method for enterprise's manufacturing, inventory management and other executive layers. It collects and processes related data through bar code technology, which replaces the manual recording of information and avoids the need for repeated and cumbersome manual labor. The information caused by the operation is mis-recorded, and at the same time, the work efficiency is improved, the accuracy of information collection is ensured, and the process information can be accurately and timely collected, thereby helping the enterprise to greatly improve the production operation efficiency and management level. Bar code technology has become the basic application tool for management modules such as material management, work maintenance, quality management, production planning and control in ERP.

3 Application of Bar Code Technology in Information Construction of Furniture Manufacturing Industry

3.1 Material and Inventory Management

Materials play a protagonist role in the enterprise information system. Planning, purchasing, manufacturing, inventory, costing, and sales all begin with "materials." The barcode is printed as a barcode to facilitate material tracking management, and it helps to make reasonable material inventory preparation, improve production efficiency, and shorten the time the company spends on funds.

Using bar code technology, in inventory management, after the receipt, the corresponding materials can be divided according to the type of bar code and placed differently. According to the actual situation, the data of the warehouse can be tracked, which will not cause the inaccurate inventory and the phenomenon that the inbound and outbound products cannot be tracked.

The use of bar code technology can also more accurately complete inventory operations. By collecting single piece of cargo information, processing collected data, establishing warehouse inventory, warehouse, warehouse, inventory data, make inventory operations more accurate.

In particular, after adopting a wireless barcode data terminal, a wireless login point, and a central data server to form a wireless operation warehouse management system, data can be transmitted more accurately in real time.