Sustainable use of rfid tags in the pharmaceutical industry

Sustainable Use of RFID Tags in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Matthieu-P. Schapranow

Hasso Plattner Institute

European Workshop on Smart Objects:Systems, Technologies and Applications

15-16 June, 2010 – Ciudad Real, Spain

RFIDSystech10, Sustainable Use of RFID Tags in the Pharma Industry, Schapranow, June 15-16, 2010

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Agenda

■ Key Facts about the Hasso Plattner Institute

■ European Pharmaceutical Supply Chain

■ Waste Handling

■ Tag Product Compounds


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Key Facts about the Hasso Plattner InstituteInternals

■ Founded as a public-private partnershipin 1998 in Potsdam near Berlin, Germany

■ Institute belongs to theUniversity of Potsdam

■ Ranked 1st in CHE 2009

■ 500 B.Sc. and M.Sc. students

■ 10 professors, 92 PhD students

■ Course of study: IT Systems Engineering


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Key Facts about the Hasso Plattner Institute Research Group Hasso Plattner / Alexander Zeier

■ Research focus: real customer data for enterprisesoftware and design of complex applications

□ In-Memory Data Management for Enterprise Applications

□ Human-Centered Software Design and Engineering

□ Maintenance and Evolution of SOA Systems

□ Integration of RFID Technology in Enterprise Platforms

■ Cooperations

□ Academic: Stanford, MIT, etc.

□ Industry: SAP, Siemens, Audi, etc.


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Key Facts about the Hasso Plattner InstituteWhat can we do for you?

■ Network between Industry and Academic,e.g. European section of the

■ Curriculum

□ RFID seminars for graduate / undergraduate students

□ Trends & concepts lecture (Prof. Hasso Plattner)

■ Enterprise Application Architecture Laboratory

□ Enterprise software, e.g. SAP, Microsoft, etc.

□ Equipped RFID Lab, e.g. deister electronic, noFilis, etc.

■ Concrete sizing and simulation of customer supply chains


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European Pharma Supply ChainAnti-Counterfeiting


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European Pharma Supply ChainAnti-Counterfeiting (cont’d)


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European Pharma Supply ChainData Sizing Assumptions

■ 14,9 billion pharmaceuticals on prescription per year

■ ~9 read events per supply chain

□ 1 x producer(create + out)

□ 2 x distributors(in + out)

□ 1 x pharmacy(in + sell)

□ 1 x customer (check)

■ Assuming 220 working days with 14 hours per day production results in ~12k events/second

Source: Interview with Stefan Führing(Pharmaceuticals, Enterprise and Industry Directorate-General European Commission)


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Waste HandlingRegulations for Electronic Waste

■ European Parliament and the Council of the EU

□ 2002/95/EC□ Restricts hazardous components in electronic devices

□ 2002/96/EC□ Regulations for recycling□ Defines amounts of reusable components per device

■ Germany

□ Electrical and Electronic Equipment Act (ElektroG), spec. 2005

□ “Stiftung Elektro-Altgeräte Registrierung”□ Manufacturers have to register monthly output quantity□ Monetary transfers to guarantee product recycling

□ Handling of RFID components is not defined!


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Waste Handling Pharmaceutical Waste in Germany

■ Toxic Waste

□ 7,000 tons

■ Non-Toxic Waste

□ 198,000 tons, incl. human and veterinary waste

□ Recycled via domestic waste

□ Contains tagged packaging material of pharmaceuticals


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Tag Product Compounds

■ Pallets

■ Paper

■ Tinplates and Steel

■ Glass

■ Plastics


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Tag Product CompoundsPallets

■ Old or damaged pallets are shredded

■ Data matrix: unadequate: dirt, damage, not reuseable, …

■ Tag: Replace existing tag to reuse it on new pallet, band saw equipped with short range reader identifies tag

www.packaging.net.au

www.detroitbandsaw.com


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Tag Product CompoundsPaper

■ 60 million tons recycledper year in the EU

■ Data matrix: Deinking by chemicals

■ Tag: Using readers to locate tag, then punching out

Der Grüne Punkt – Duales System Deutschland GmbH


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Tag Product CompoundsTinplates and Steel

■ Max. 3 permille copper in recycled material (steel scrap definition)

■ Data matrix: printed on a label, removal during cleanup

■ Tag: Synthetic layer enclosing tag, attached by glue

■ No adaption of the recycling process required

mehartrading.com mehartrading.com


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Tag Product CompoundsGlass

■ Used for pills or pharmaceutical mixtures

■ Data matrix: printed on a label, removal during cleanup

■ Tag: Attaching tag to cap, caps can be identified reliably

■ No adaption of the recycling process required www.lotfi.net


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Tag Product CompoundsPlastics

■ Blister packages

■ Recycling material has to be shredded, i.e. tags are damaged

■ Data matrix: Is destroyed/separated chemically

■ Tag: Checking for radio emissions, postpone for separate processing

www.ecreden.com


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■ Issue: Contamination of recycling materials by RFID tag artifacts

■ Solution: Preventing shreddering of electronic components

■ Chances: Decision-driven recycling

□ Deriving producers by EPC

□ Special handling forpharmaceutical packages canbe applied automatically

□ Costs-by-cause principle

□ Statistics

What to take home?Improving Recycling by RFID Tags


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Thank you for your interest!Keep in contact with us.

Hasso Plattner InstituteEnterprise Platform & Integration Concepts

Matthieu-P. SchapranowAugust-Bebel-Str. 88

14482 Potsdam, Germany

Matthieu-P. Schapranow, [email protected]

Responsible: Deputy Prof. of Prof. Hasso PlattnerDr. Alexander [email protected]

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