These transponders made it easy to pinpoint the location and destination of each plane. While there’s now greater diversity among RFID technologies, such as passive and active tags, it relies on a ...

Most notably, we documented significant time savings. A time-in-motion study was conducted to evaluate the process both before and 90 days after implementing the RFID tray-swap process.

The system is equipped to produce RFID labels among other other high-quality label applications. The new units can produce pre-printed material from any printing process, such as flexo or digital, and ...

While RFID made its first appearance in the automotive industry twenty years ago, its growth potential lies in automating the manufacturing process, according to ABI Research analyst Robert Foppiani.

Mandating RFID requirements through an illegal process doesn’t serve anyone in the livestock industry, least of all our cattle and bison producers,” said Hageman.

The privacy scare surrounding radio frequency identification (RFID) tags is greatly overblown. No company or government agency will be secretly scanning your house, as is feared, to find out what ...

Wal-Mart has begun rolling out the first applications and process changes based on radio frequency identification data at the original seven Wal-Mart stores in Texas that were outfitted with RFID ...

Another problem, Hardgrave said, is that companies sometimes overlay RFID on top of existing bar-code practices. That approach does not maximize the benefits that can be obtained from using RFID—and, ...

Before going too far into the research process, find out whether company managers are open to, and have the budget for, a new technology system like RFID. Once you have management's approval, you'll ...

WebMethods Inc., on the other hand, this month will announce Version 2.0 of its RFID Starter Kit, which provides direct connectivity to the EPCglobal network so that users can better access and ...

For its part, IBM, of Armonk, N.Y., participates in EPCglobals standardization process, as well as in workgroups dealing with middleware for gathering and filtering RFID information.

The overwhelming majority of organizations rated business process improvement as the primary driver behind RFID adoption. And nearly half of respondents expect their RFID budgets to increase in 2010.