Pharmaceutical counterfeiting is on the rise – and a growing health and safety issue with deep consequences for consumers and manufacturers alike. A number of factors contribute to counterfeiting, ...

The major markets for pharmaceuticals have been forever transformed with the arrival of mandated serialization. With both the United States Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA) and European Union ...

For some manufacturers, the goal was to be fully compliant with the DSCSA, including both serialization and aggregation, from day one. Enacted by Congress on Nov. 27, 2013, the US Drug Supply Chain ...

Serialization converts an object's state into a stream of bytes so that it can be persisted in a permanent or temporary storage medium When working with applications, you’ll often need to store data ...

During the 2017 ISA Food and Pharmaceuticals Industries Division (FPID) Symposium, I attended an informative presentation by John Woodburn on the implementation of serialization and lessons learned.

Serialization is the process of converting a Java object into a sequence of bytes so they can be written to disk, sent over a network, or stored outside of memory. Later, the Java virtual machine (JVM ...

Compliance is a serious issue for India’s pharmaceutical manufacturers, distributors, and retailers; due to the complicated nature of the pharmaceutical supply chain. Serialization requires ...

Now past the “wait-and-see” standoff, most pharmaceutical companies and their contract partners are considering long-term requirements, including distributors’ needs. Vendor-sponsored events in 2016 ...

Set up some shared memory (or use sockets if the instances are on different machines, whatever), use it to negotiate one 'master' instance which holds the file handle while all the other instances ...

Recently, on the "Ask The Architect" session from the Devoxx UK 2018 conference, Oracle's chief architect, Mark Reinhold, shared his thoughts about Java’s serialization mechanism which he called a ...