2008-07-15 09:26:00
Company Honored at Awards Ceremony for Innovative Application of
Leading-Edge Technology in Pharmaceutical Industry
PALO ALTO, Calif.–(EMWNews)–Blue Vector, the leader in truly distributed edge processing for sensor
networks, today announced that it won a 2008 START-IT Technology
and Business (T&B) Enabler Award for demonstrated success in helping a
pharmaceutical company to overcome a challenge and solve a critical
business issue through the innovative use of leading-edge technology.
The company received the award at an awards dinner and ceremony at the
Westin Chicago North Shore Hotel in Wheeling, Illinois.
Blue Vector customer ASD Healthcare—a division
of AmerisourceBergen Specialty Group and the leading distributor of
specialty life-saving pharmaceuticals—was also
honored at the awards ceremony, taking top honors in the Pharmaceutical
category. Enabling a real-time view into the inventory and conditions of
life-saving pharmaceuticals in over 70 hospitals, Blue Vector worked
with ASD to develop one of the largest RFID-enabled remote inventory
management implementations in the world. Integrating with ASD’s
existing systems to allow ASD to automatically re-order inventory, Blue
Vector’s Edge Manager network appliances—embedded
inside each of ASD’s Cubixx™
refrigerated pharmaceutical consignment units—controls
the RFID equipment, collects temperature information, detects the
opening and closing of the refrigerator, and creates events and alerts
for any activities of interest that are securely transmitted back to ASD’s
customer service and fulfillment systems.
“The manufacturers being honored here tonight
truly define ‘excellence in manufacturing,’
and have learned the value of using innovative solutions from the
industry’s top-notch technology providers,”
said Peggy Smedley, editorial director of START-IT. “It
is important to recognize these success stories, and we want to
congratulate all of tonight’s winners on
their superior achievements.”
“It’s an honor to
be selected as a winner of START-IT’s
Technology and Business Enabler award and an even greater honor to
enable ASD Healthcare to realize their vision of applying leading-edge
technology to create an innovative Vendor Managed Inventory model,”
said Mike Gardner, Blue Vector president and CEO. “In
the pharmaceutical industry, tracking high-value assets is a complex and
costly challenge, particularly when you’re
dealing with temperature-sensitive drugs with a limited shelf-life in a
highly distributed supply chain environment. With Blue Vector, companies
like ASD Healthcare can meet these challenges with our unique ‘sense
and respond’ intelligent network technology,
enabling cost-effective, accurate, and efficient real-time monitoring
and management throughout all links of their supply chain.”
About Blue Vector Systems
Blue Vector is the trusted choice of industry leaders who are
revolutionizing their operations by extending the reach of their current
business processes to the edge of their operations. An offshoot of
groundbreaking research into highly distributed military sensor
networks, Blue Vector’s technology puts RFID,
barcode, temperature, GPS and motion sensors to work for leading
businesses who need to control remote inventory, improve their shipping
accuracy, monitor the movement of assets, or track the progress of
individual items throughout their supply chain. The company is
headquartered in Palo Alto, California. For more information, please
visit www.bluevector.com.
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