As 2023 nears its end, we’d like to share with you some of our most popular articles of the year. 

Taking just two minutes to read, these articles focus on a particular aspect of our products and their application.

Our top articles on time and temperature monitoring

Timesrip Time offers reliable time indicator solutions. Manufacturers and End Users can monitor shelf life, expiry dates, repeat services and maintenance routines of all time sensitive products.

Temperature monitoring helps ensure vaccine safety and efficacy. Making sure temperature sensitive vaccines have stayed in their specified range throughout the cold chain helps healthcare workers easily determine which vaccines to use.

Timestrip neo indicators offer a wide variety of time and temperature custom solutions. With the advanced electronic monitoring and small form, they make a big impact on single and multi use time temperature monitoring.

Home water filters and industrial air filters are just two of the many uses filtration replacement reminders. Having a time monitoring indicator helps home users and maintenance workers the time elapsed since the last filter has been placed.

Timestrip has been innovating time and temperature monitoring for nearly two decades. Offering diverse time and temperature solutions for companies around the globe with unique liquid and electronic indicators is the focus of Timestrip.

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1. Timestrip is a global company with 20 years’ experience of designing and manufacturing unique products. It services customers around the world, direct and through a network of specially trained distributors.
2. Timestrip’s innovative time and temperature indicators attach to products at unit level or outer packaging, providing a clear indication of any breach in acceptable storage or use conditions.
3. The disposable ‘smart’ indicators provide peace of mind, and alert operators to the need for intervention. If you need more than single use, Timestrip neo provides up to 5 uses for temperature monitoring.
4. Timestrip supplies both liquid-based and electronic indicators. The products are low cost, making them suitable for a wide range of monitoring applications in the food, pharmaceutical, healthcare and many other sectors.
5. Liquid-based indicators are based on predictable physical processes, while electronic products offer greater accuracy or logging of temperature data. Available indicators are capable of monitoring time from one hour to several years, and temperatures from -60ºC to 38ºC.
6. When applied to temperature or time sensitive products, customer benefits include reduced product scrappage, early warning of adverse conditions, audit trail / traceability and compliance with regulations.
7. Applied to replaceable products, benefits include predictable service intervals and end user satisfaction.
8. Supporting a large stock range, the company’s own research and development team develops new products for bespoke applications. It has an IQC-approved certified manufacturing facility that conforms to ISO13485:2003 and ISO 9001:2008.
9. Brand owners and retailers have a powerful tool to ensure effective supply chain operation while meeting growing legislation. Using Timestrip added value labels, they can be confident that they are presenting their brands in the best light, creating customer satisfaction and gaining customer loyalty.
10. Use example: Pharmaceutical and Healthcare. Timestrip blood bag labels – medical device BT10 FDA 510(k) approved indicator for blood transportation – provides a visual alert that a temperature breach has occurred, reducing unnecessary wastage of good product, encouraging a systematic quality monitoring procedure and ensuring peace of mind for clinician and patient
11. Use example: Food Transportation. Temperature and time monitoring of sensitive food such as seafood, meat or vegetables is achieved throughout the whole cold chain, from manufacturer through transport and logistics to retailer.
12. Use example: Filtration Service Reminders. A visual indicator of service life encourages timely replacement of filters and other consumables, leading to improved product performance and reliability.

The New Way of Reading Logged Temperature Data

Timestrip® has introduced its first temperature data logger – the TL520. This compact and economical ‘micro data logger’ provides alerts when temperatures breach set limits, and allows the logged data to be downloaded to an app for investigation and analysis.

Simpler and easier to use than conventional data loggers, the TL520 requires minimal training in use, and can be used at any point in the cold chain.

The TL520 is a single use device providing an immediate irreversible indication of over- and under-temperature conditions using built-in LED lights. Accuracy is quoted as ±0.5ºC over the normal operating range.

A novel feature of the TL520 is that stored data can be sent wirelessly to an accompanying app. for investigation and analysis using built-in NFC technology. No computer is required as the data downloads to any compatible mobile device, and both iOS and Android devices are supported.

The 2-8ºC default settings make the TL520 ideal for monitoring cold chain (refrigerated) temperatures in the storage and transport of sensitive products. Pharmaceuticals, blood, vaccines and food products are typical end use applications.

The new micro logger provides many of the benefits of bulky, traditional data loggers, yet is much simpler to use and is small enough to store with many products during transport and storage

Nora Murphy, Commercial Director of Timestrip

The TL520 is now available from Timestrip and its distributors.

Timestrip will be attending the 29th Regional Congress of the International Society of Blood Transfusion (ISBT) in Basel, Switzerland from 22nd - 26th June 2019

See our blood temp indicators

We will demonstrate our Timestrip® Blood Temp 10 and Timestrip® Blood Temp 6 at the exhibition. We will be at Booth U106, Hall 4.U, please drop by and get a sample of our Blood Temp indicators to take away with you.

Our Blood Temp irreversible blood bag temperature indicators monitor temperature compliance in blood bags. They are especially relevant for monitoring blood temperature during transit from the highly controlled environment of the blood bank to use or store in a different destination, such as a hospital.

ISBT is a society in the field of blood transfusion, transplants, science and medicine. It facilitates knowledge about transfusion medicine to serve the interests of donors and patients.

Time and Temperature Indicator maker Timestrip launches the Timestrip® Temperature app, a new tool that provides a visual audit trail of its temperature products.

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Using the App simply involves taking a photo of a Timestrip® label with a smartphone.

If the Timestrip® has a new style serial number, the App will recognise the serial number and allow you to register it on the system.

You can then take a follow on scan where you can enter its activation state (inert, activated or breached), storing this data with essential time and location information in the cloud.

If the Timestrip® has an old style serial number you can still use the app in the same way but you'll need to manually enter the serial number. The App is free to download from the Google Play store with an iOS version to follow shortly.

High tech low cost

The App is the latest innovation from Timestrip, which revolutionised the field of cold chain management with its unique Irreversible Time and Temperature Indicator labels (TTIs).

Recognised by the World Health Organisation and the US FDA as an essential tool for the cold chain management of blood and food products, TTIs provide data as to whether a blood or food product is safe to use. Timestrip’s irreversible TTIs make this crucial safety information unambiguous and instantly visible.

Like having a hundred permanent digital data loggers

The main benefit of Timestrip’s irreversible TTI labels is that they give essential cold chain management information on individual units of processed products. This deals with the main shortcoming of digital data loggers, which are mostly used for containers of transported and stored products.

Thanks to the new Timestrip® App, extra key information around cold chain management is added with the safe storage of status, time, journey and location data, which can be accessed at any time via the app or via a website. A digital data logger can be lost or damaged and all its data can be wiped clean. The Timestrip® App however safely stores this data in the Cloud.

Data logger functionality at a fraction of the price

Timestrip UK CEO Reuben Isbitsky says: "I am very excited about our first App, which brings Timestrip TTI labels very close to data logger functionality, at a fraction of the price.  While a key benefit of Timestrip products is that they do not need external infrastructure to read and interpret, using the optional Timestrip Temperature App to scan them, adds enhanced functionality, easy audit trail and provides the customer with a permanent record of the history of the product’s journey."