Using Bar Code Technology for Horticultural Research and Plant Inventory Activities
Helen‐Jean Talbott, Bruce J. Parliman · HortScience · 1987
Abstract The development and use of bar codes for automatic identification and systematic data collection is one of the most significant technological changes in American business and industry today. Most people become familiar with bar codes at the grocery store. The bar code symbol (Fig. 1) is that portion of the merchandise label with black bars and white spaces that is scanned by machines at the check-out counter. Bar codes are achieving widespread popularity because they can be incorporated into the primary-source marking of products from production to consumption (23). Bar codes are having tremendous impact on manufacturing, warehousing, and distribution activities. Bar code symbols are used for automatic identification of items as varied as hospital supplies, library books, and marathon runners; and are used to keep track of the manufacture of items as diverse as automobiles, hot steel ingots, and integrated circuits.