In a significant stride towards enhancing its supply chain and ensuring the integrity of 3D printer powder supply, A prominent global technology leader has adopted Timestrip neo indicators as a temperature monitor for shipping.
Global Tech Leader Adopts Timestrip neo for Critical Temperature Monitoring
These cutting-edge indicators have emerged as the preferred choice for real-time temperature monitoring during the shipping process, , safeguarding the consumable's quality throughout its journey..
At the heart of this breakthrough solution are Timestrip's bespoke Timestrip neo TT525 indicators, meticulously designed to offer continuous temperature tracking capabilities. This seamless monitoring mechanism acts as a robust shield, upholding the consumable's optimal quality from the point of origin to its final destination.
What sets this innovative temperature monitoring solution apart is its utilization of irreversible electronic indicators. By employing these indicators, the technology leader underscores its unwavering dedication to delivering products of unparalleled quality.
The integration of Timestrip's neo indicators into the shipping process has resulted in a comprehensive quality assurance framework.
As the 3D printer powder embarks on its expedition to various destinations, the Timestrip neo indicators stand as proof of temperature controlled shipping at every step of the way.
Throughout the journey, these indicators dutifully monitor for deviations in temperature, ensuring transparency and accountability in handling and storage conditions. Timestrip neo indicators will show, via flashing LED lights, when 3D printer powder has been exposed to extreme temperatures in transit.
This invaluable information empowers the end user with confidence, knowing that their 3D printer powder has traversed its voyage under the most favorable conditions.
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Company Profile & Environment
Marathon Distributors is a pharmaceutical and healthcare logistics services provider on the island of Cyprus. With an annual turnover of over $40m, it has a 35-38% market share for its range of activities and employs a workforce of just over 40 people.
Its services include warehousing, transportation and distribution and it boasts a state-of-the-art warehouse strategically located on the outskirts of Nicosia (Latsia Industrial Area), just-off the Nicosia-Limassol-Larnaca highway. The warehouse area has a floor space of 2,500m2 and a modern cold storage area with a capacity of 70m3.
For transportation, it operates its own fleet of 18 vehicles — all temperature controlled and GPS monitored — and they cover 100% of the island. The vehicles deliver to pharmacies, pharmacy depots, physicians, hospitals, clinics and clinical laboratories across the island.
Cold chain issues fall under the remit of MD Simone Kapakiotis. Her work covers all aspects for the warehousing and transportation of cold chain products, which are mainly vaccines.
The main regulations that the company needs to comply with are the Law on Human Pharmaceuticals 70(I) 2001 and EU guidelines on Good Distribution & Manufacturing Practices.
The company faces numerous challenges in the sectors it operates in. Firstly, the Cyprus market is of a relatively small size, which stifles its potential for growth. Also, it is a highly regulated environment, subject to numerous stringent EU guidelines. Lastly, the business itself must manage quite high operating costs and low profit margins.
On the plus side however, due to relatively short transportation distances on the island (delivery times are 6 hours at most) and the company’s use of validated cooling containers for the transportation of cold chain products, it never generates any product waste.
Use of Timestrip Indicators
Because of its environment, Marathon uses Timestrip Plus 8°C 8 Hrs (TP065), which monitor temperature breaches above 8°C for periods of up to eight hours. Cold chain issues are of concern during the transportation process.
The procedure followed for using Timestrips is that they are placed in all orders containing cold chain products. These indicate to drivers and customers whether a temperature deviation has occurred during transportation. If no deviation occurs, customers receive orders and sign all the relevant documentation. If however a deviation has taken place, these orders are returned to the warehouse and the company sets in motion a deviation procedure that needs to be followed.
The Timestrip Solution
The main reasons the company uses Timestrip TTIs above other approved TTIs are a competitive price, the reliability of the product, an easy order system and speed of delivery.
Significant improvement has been noted in these areas since the company began to use Timestrips. The product itself is 50% cheaper than other similar products. Also, delivery times are one day faster and delivery costs are 50% lower than before.
Other Benefits
Feedback from Marathon’s customers has been very positive and have enhanced its standing with them. They particularly like that Timestrips are easy to use, easy to read and reliable.
Simone Kapakiotis says: “The use of Timestrips adds to our company’s reputation of being professional and reliable.”
The Timestrip team regularly gets feedback from clients across the world about the value that its range of Irreversible Time and Temperature Indicators brings to making production processes safer and more secure.
So in a world which normally deals with the critical issues of health and food safety, the mood in the office has been lightened with news from south-east Asia of a novel use of its 7 Days Time Indicator.
On a building site in Japan, new recruits on a construction site undergo a seven-day training programme and have a Timestrip 7 Days Time Indicator on their security helmets. Thus, when the window on the tag is completely filled with colour, site managers know that the beginners have completed their induction programme.
This strategy is particularly useful when starters begin their seven-day training programme on different days, because access to specific parts of the construction site or the handling of a particular piece of machinery can only occur once the required training linked to a related day has taken place.
Until now the benefits of Timestrips have been closely aligned with the needs of food safety and securing various cold management processes for blood products as well as the Pharmaceutical, Healthcare & Life Sciences industries.
This ingenious use of Timestrip 7 Days Time Indicator points to a new benefit: Health & Safety related to required training.
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