Unique Device Identifier (UDI)
Every medical device has a
unique marking for
identification. It is attached on
the mainframe base cover.
Note that this is only an
example of a UDI marking.
The characters used in the UDI
marking represent specific
identifiers.
Device identifier:
⚫ (01)= GS1 global trade item
number (GTIN) of the
device.
⚫ 00001234567895 = Global
trade item number.
Production identifiers:
⚫ (11) = GS1 application
identifier for the
manufacturing date of the
device.
⚫ 150700= Manufacturing
date: year-month-day
(YYMMDD) with DD always
equal to 00.
⚫ (21) = GS1 application
identifier for the serial
number of the device.
AAAAAYY00001AA = Serial
number.