A Survey of Optical Bar Code Technology Applicable to Air Force Activities.

Abstract

In recent years a new technology has been developing that has the potential for widespread application in the Air Force and other Department of Defense agencies. This thesis reports on the investigation of bar code technology amenable to Air Force applications. The study indicates that the military services and the Defense Logistics Agency have been directed by the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Installations and Logistics) to study Logistics Applications of Automated Marking and Reading Symbols (LOGMARS). This research effort was not directly related to the LOGMARS effort, but was an independent investigation of civilian applications of bar coding in order to determine if similar systems could be applied in an Air Force environment. Numerous civilian applications are presented along with a review of the types of bar coding equipment and symbologies available. The major findings was that there appears to be many areas where significant benefits could be gained by applying bar code technology. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1978
Accession Number
ADA060771

Entities

People

  • Michael B. Wilderman
  • Thomas D. Windham

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Assembly
  • Bar Codes
  • Blood Transfusions
  • Coding
  • Control Systems
  • Data Processing
  • Department Of Defense
  • Host Computers
  • Information Systems
  • Inventory Control
  • Light Sources
  • Logistics
  • Logistics Management
  • Money
  • Students
  • United States

Readers

  • Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).
  • Logistics and Supply Chain Management.
  • Systems Analysis and Design