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Work Detail | Antares Vision, the world’s leading provider of serialization-based track and trace solutions for the pharmaceutical industry, has announced that Adriano Fusco, the company’s Strategy and Development Director, has been appointed Marketing Director of the Open Serialization Communication Standard (Open-SCS) Group. The group is charged with standardizing packaging line serialization and aggregation data exchanges, including supply chain packaging track & trace activities. Founded just last year, Open-SCS is an initiative driven by leading serialization solution vendors to address the healthcare industry’s wave of serialization regulations spanning the next decade. In addition to Antares Vision, vendor companies that comprise the group already include Advanco, OCS, Systech, Omron, Optel Vision, Tracelink and Werum IT Solutions. The group also includes global pharmaceutical manufacturers such as Abbott, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer and Teva. Antares Vision was chosen for its current leadership role within the Open-SCS Group based largely on the company’s position in the worldwide serialization marketplace. Antares Vision currently has more serialization systems installed worldwide than all major competitors combined. By the start of 2016, Antares Vision had installed solutions on over 750 production lines in 140 plants around the world. In partnership with the OPC Foundation, the Open-SCS group’s mission is to develop an open source standard in the Packaging Serialization Global Name Registry, and an associated set of subscription-based work products. The open standard and work products are focused on the standardization of data exchanges for healthcare packaging serialization and the aggregations between a healthcare provider’s enterprise serialization management function and its product packaging lines. This includes interfaces between Levels 2-to-3 and 3-to-4 for Level 2 plant (line and equipment) and supply chain packaging serialization activities (distribution centers and warehouses) and Level 3 functions (plant and warehouse operations management). As Marketing Director, Fusco is charged with spearheading the Open-SCS Group’s effort to grow its membership on both the vendor and user sides. Vendors are encouraged to contribute to the definition of use cases, while customers gain free access to a number of deliverables, including advanced packaging serialization User Requirement Specification (URS) for the proposed use cases. The standard, once published, will be free for anyone to utilize. Antares, a founding member of the Open-SCS, has actively contributed to the initiative from its earliest days, both financially and organizationally. Emidio Zorzella, CEO of Antares Vision and member of the steering committee, said, “As a high tech company, we recognized the importance of standardization and saw the need to get our top clients involved with this initiative early on.” In the current phase of the Open-SCS initiative, Antares is supporting the group with the creation of specifications for the communication between the Levels 3 and 4 layers (plant versus enterprise repositories), leveraging its vast experience deploying serialization platforms and interfacing with all common repositories and ERP solutions. Fusco says his goal is to convince more small- and medium-sized companies that they can realize tremendous benefits for a modest investment of time and money. “I want more companies to share in the pride Antares Vision feels from its active involvement in this initiative, which helps to both enhance the security of the pharma industry’s supply chain and save lives all over the world,” said Fusco. The next Open-SCS Group workshop is scheduled for September 2016 in Germany. |
Country | Italy , Southern Europe |
Industry | Appointments |
Entry Date | 15 Oct 2016 |
Source | http://www.packagingeurope.com/Packaging-Europe-News/69146/Antares-Visions-Adriano-Fusco-Appointed-Marketing-Director-of-OpenSCS-Group.html |