Guest Column – By Bert Moore, AIM, Inc.
Historically, articles looking at RFID in the coming year have focused on supply chain or asset tracking or access control or smart phones or any of a dozen other key applications where RFID could offer significant advantages. It’s true that market growth is important. But the roll-out of [...]
We completed our December survey of 65 bar code resellers and observed encouraging trends, similar to those reflected during our September survey for both broader bar coding and RFID. While the environment remains generally soft, we were encouraged to hear of stability/improvement in several important verticals, including Transportation & Logistics, Healthcare and Government. Mobility products [...]
RFID can be a powerful tool in helping lean management initiatives, which can lead to important competitive advantages. Guest authors Chris Hanebeck and Pat Boutier explore this unique use of RFID, and provide real-world examples.
Guest Column – By Chris Hanebeck and Pat Boutier
Over the past few months, we have repeatedly argued that RFID is mainly a technology [...]
We see several dynamics in the airline industry that suggest continued interest in RFID, although we expect the progress will be slow. As we reported in the April 2008 and September 2008 editions of RFID Monthly, there is clearly value in providing more luggage visibility in terms of reduced losses and increased efficiency. This has [...]
We wanted to provide a few thoughts on what might be noteworthy events in the RFID industry during 2010. Our discussion is framed with a brief historical perspective as well as our key expectations for 2010 that include a short-term market focus, key projects, new product capabilities and privacy. We hope our thoughts will provide [...]
Asset management for returnable containers continues to be an area where RFID can add value by increasing visibility. In many cases, returnables, which often require meaningful capital spending, are lost in the supply chain. In this guest article, Chris Hanebeck discusses that RFID is in a position to provide meaningful improvements in visibility and thus improve efficiency while [...]
IBM has released Returnable Container Management, which is part of the company’s InfoSphere Traceability Server platform. The product, which leverages business intelligence from Cognos and was developed initially in the automotive industry, leverages RFID tags attached to reusable assets to improve visibility. This visibility can be accessed through a webportal and exceptions, including mis-shipments or [...]
Container Centralen continues to embrace RFID as an asset management tool. Recall, we highlighted in the August 2009 edition of RFID Monthly, the company’s plan to use Gen 2 tags to authenticate its pool of 3.5M containers in Europe. This implementation date was recently pushed back to November 1, 2010 from February 1, 2010 to [...]
Fresh food represents a strong potential RFID market, but the adoption will come from true business value, not FDA regulation or congressional action. We expect RFIDs benefit will be generated from improving retailer and distributor revenue, while also lowering cost. Key components to adoption will be the development of a uniform set of data standards, [...]
According to the Philippine Information Agency, The Philippines Land Transportation Office (LTO) is requiring that all vehicles carry an RFID- based sticker for registration purposes. The process is scheduled to begin for vehicle renewals beginning in October and the cost per sticker is P350 (roughly $7.50). Despite the plan from the LTO, there seems to [...]