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Barcode technology allows to: 
 
•  Monitor commercial transactions,  
•  survey stored reserves  
•  supervise warehouse transactions collecting, decomposing, 
palletization etc.  
•  shorten time of loading and unloading goods 
•  monitor production in real time  
• monitor reserves 
 
 
21.5 The usage of EAN-128 barcode in scales. 
 
The EAN-128 barcode standard has been created to provide a worldwide 
standard for exchanging simple data between enter prices. Other codes include 
data without marking what they include. EAN-128 includes data with all 
information about them. 
 
For example, when coding 17,21 kg as 1721 an application does not know if it 
is a price, time or mass. Even if the application can identify this field as weight 
it has no information about unit and point (1721 kg or 17.21 g). 
 
It is important that everybody can decode the information without any additional 
modifications. EAN-128 standard solves this problem. It includes a list of 
"Application Identifiers". Every identifier carries a message to inform a system 
about the data type and format. E.g. 310 identifier indicates for the net mass in 
kg. The next digit in this identifier outlines the point position, then the following 
6 digits outline a weight. 
 
Application Identifiers. 
 
Description IZ Format 
Serial Shipping Container Code 
00  exactly 18 characters 
Shipping Contained Code 
01  exactly 14 characters 
Number of containers contained 
in another unit (used with AI 37)
 
02  exactly 14 characters 
Batch Numbers 
10  Up to 20 characters  
Production Date (YYMMDD) 
11  exactly 6 characters 
Packaging Date (YYMMDD) 
13  exactly 6 characters 
Sell By Date (Quality Control) 
(YYMMDD) 
15  exactly 6 characters 
Expiration Date (Safety Control) 
(YYMMDD) 
17  exactly 6 characters