(AIAG: Southfield, MI) -- The Automotive Industry Action Group’s (AIAG) B-8 Quality Assurance Guide for Shipping Labels and Other Bar Code and 2D Symbology Applications is available for companies looking for help evaluating and testing label quality.

When the original Guide for Quality Assurance for Shipping Labels was published in February 1988 and updated in April 1999, it represented the culmination of years of effort by the Applications Work Group of the AIAG’s Automatic Identification Project Team.

AIAG has a policy that all documents are reviewed and updated every five years. Therefore, at the beginning of 2004, Marsha Harmon of QED Systems and Bill Hoffman, at the time with Intermec Technologies, developed Revision 3 to the guide. However, that revision was never published, and the oversight wasn’t discovered until 2010. At that time, Hoffman says, a poll of core AIAG members revealed that it was still relevant and in use. For example, the document was included in the General Motors (GM) New Vendor Toolkit.

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