...Laurence Marsh; Edward Finch This paper presents the findings of a one‐year study concerned with the development and testing of an information storage tool designed to empower maintenance operatives on location by means of low cost 2D barcodes. A recurring problem for maintenance engineers...

.... Barcoding, often thought of as a rather static technology, is in fact undergoing quite radical changes which enable the codes to store massive amounts of information. This low cost information storage system is one of a number of auto‐ID solutions which require further development, particularly in the area...