Sustainable use of RFID Tags in the Pharmaceutical industry

Sustainable Use of RFID Tags in the
Pharmaceutical Industry

European Workshop on Smart Objects:
Systems, Technologies and Applications
15-16 June, 2010 – Ciudad Real, Spain

Matthieu-P. Schapranow
Hasso Plattner Institute

Agenda
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■  Key Facts about the Hasso Plattner Institute
■  European Pharmaceutical Supply Chain
■  Waste Handling
■  Tag Product Compounds

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

Key Facts about the Hasso Plattner Institute
Internals

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■  Founded as a public-private partnership
in 1998 in Potsdam near Berlin, Germany
■  Institute belongs to the
University 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


Research Group Hasso Plattner / Alexander Zeier

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■  Research focus: real customer data for enterprise
software 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.


What can we do for you?

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■  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


European Pharma Supply Chain
Anti-Counterfeiting

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Anti-Counterfeiting (cont’d)

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Data Sizing Assumptions

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■  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)


Waste Handling
Regulations for Electronic Waste
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■  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!


Waste Handling
Pharmaceutical Waste in Germany
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■  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


Tag Product Compounds
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■  Pallets
■  Paper
■  Tinplates and Steel
■  Glass
■  Plastics


Pallets
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■  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


Paper
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■  60 million tons recycled
per 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


Tinplates and Steel
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■  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


Glass
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■  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
www.lotfi.net
process required


Plastics
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■  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


What to take home?
Improving Recycling by RFID Tags
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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 for
pharmaceutical packages can
be applied automatically
□  Costs-by-cause principle
□  Statistics


Thank you for your interest!
Keep in contact with us.
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Responsible: Deputy Prof. of Prof. Hasso Plattner
Dr. Alexander Zeier Matthieu-P. Schapranow, M.Sc.
zeier@hpi.uni-potsdam.de matthieu.schapranow@hpi.uni-potsdam.de

Hasso Plattner Institute
Enterprise Platform & Integration Concepts
Matthieu-P. Schapranow
August-Bebel-Str. 88
14482 Potsdam, Germany


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