The May 2009 edition of the RFID Monthly newsletter is now available. In this edition of the newsletter, we cover several new industry developments, including the following.
We remain optimistic given observations. Despite the meaningful economic weakness, which is resulting in project delays, we believe the RFID industry is showing some positive signs of strengthening. We attended [...]
Several news sources reported Nokia development manager Jarkko Jaervilehto as indicating that Nokia see several benefits from using RFID in their handset manufacturing process, including better visibility of sales stock and better business intelligence on demand changes. We have heard these same comments from other players in the electronics space for goods ranging from chipsets [...]
Alliance is offering a retail display solution that leverages RFID and improves inventory management and merchandising. Alliance, a RockTenn company, provides marketing solutions to retailers, which includes the development of promotional and permanent displays. Alliance has added Seeonic’s SmartWatch RFID solution to its next generation of its MAXRPM DVD promotional display offering. In the solution, [...]
Partnership Has Developed a Package Validation Solution. Impinj, UPM and Zebra have collaborated to create a package validation solution for consumer products. The solution leverages RFID by tagging individual items going into a larger package or box and allowing producers to confirm package contents before shipment, to ensure the correct shipment, or to enable faster [...]
Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) continues to expand is use of Gen 2 RFID for bag tagging with a 70M unit order over a three year timeframe. Last April, we reported the Airport had provided an initial order of 15M tags for departing passengers, but could expand to 40M units annually if departing, arriving and [...]
Alien closure. Alien has announced the closure of its Fargo, Manufacturing facility, which will be completed by June. The company will be switching to a flip-chip based assembly process, from its High-speed Strap Attach Manufacturing (HiSAM) process. The company indicated converter partners are in the process of sampling squiggle inlays. Six employees were let go [...]
The European Commission published its RFID privacy recommendation, which has several noteworthy components. First, the recommendation acknowledges the potential “economic and societal benefits” of RFID, such as driving business growth and reducing costs as well as help in combating counterfeiting and managing environmental processes with respect to recycling and hazardous substances. Second, that because it [...]
The Information Technology Research Institute (ITRI) at the University of Arkansas has published an overview of a live test at Dillard’s department stores on how RFID at item level apparel improved inventory accuracy and out of stocks. They also evaluated how RFID may improve loss prevention. The ITRI study provided data from one Dillard’s store [...]
Healthcare Asset Tracking. Greenville Hospital System University Center has implemented a Gen 2 based system to track key surgical and hospital assets. In surgery, many surgical instruments tend to be low profile, and are often lost in bedding and scrubs, which leads to unintentional disposal. Given many of these instruments carry a high value, this [...]
IBM announced its WebSphere software products increased revenue 5% year-over-year for the first quarter. This compares to overall software down 6% and down 10% for services. Hardware revenue was down 23%.
RFID Global Solution announced Visi-Trac a real-time software platform that integrates and deploys visibility solutions from Ultra Wide Band, GPS, barcode, and temperature sensors. The [...]