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News for the Week of Nov. 4, 2002
AMR: RFID Cuts Costs By 3 to 5 Percent
AeroAstro Launches Low-Cost Satellite Tracking
Lockheed to Use RFID on Shop Floor
Auto-ID Center Adds Six New Sponsors
SAMSys Signs Up Four RFID Partners
Exclusive: U.S. Central Command Expands RFID Asset Visibility Program
OP-ED: The March of Folly
RFID Cuts Costs by 3 to 5 Percent
AMR Research has released a report on the benefits of using radio frequency identification. It says early implementations have shown a 3 to 5 percent reduction in supply chain costs and a 2 to 7 percent increase in revenue from improvements in inventory visibility.
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Low-Cost Satellite Tracking Offered
AeroAstro, a supplier of micro-satellite and communications technologies, has launched a new satellite tracking device that costs just $349, compared to upwards of $2,000 for Qualcomm's OmniTracs system.
Full Story
Lockheed to Use RFID on Shop Floor
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company has awarded a $5.15 million contract to Epic Data International of Vancouver to install a shop floor data collection system that uses RFID to track work in progress.
Full Story
Auto-ID Center Adds Six Sponsors
The Auto-ID Center has added six new sponsors, including Mitsui & Co. Ltd., a major Japanese trading company. The new technology sponsors are Canon, Catalina Marketing Corp., ConnecTerra, KSW Microtec and Vizional Technologies.
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SAMSys Signs Four Resellers
SAMSys Technologies has signed partnership agreements with four value-added resellers. The Toronto company, which makes RFID readers, hopes the VARs will help it penetrate new vertical markets. Full Story
FEATURE
Military Orders RFID Tracking
RFID Journal has learned that General Tommy Franks has decreed that all supplies bound for Afghanistan must be tracked with RFID tags. Even as private companies hold back, the Department of Defense is dramatically expanding its use of RFID technology because the benefits are proven. And commercial industry can now use the infrastructure that the military has built.
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OP-ED: The March of Folly
It’s natural for RFID vendors to resist not just the concept of a patent pool, but the entire direction the Auto-ID Center has taken. But no matter how much you’ve invested in IP, it is the march of folly to continue selling proprietary systems when the broad market has embraced open standards.
Full Story
AMR Research has released a report on the benefits of using radio frequency identification. It says early implementations have shown a 3 to 5 percent reduction in supply chain costs and a 2 to 7 percent increase in revenue from improvements in inventory visibility.
Full Story
Low-Cost Satellite Tracking Offered
AeroAstro, a supplier of micro-satellite and communications technologies, has launched a new satellite tracking device that costs just $349, compared to upwards of $2,000 for Qualcomm's OmniTracs system.
Full Story
Lockheed to Use RFID on Shop Floor
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company has awarded a $5.15 million contract to Epic Data International of Vancouver to install a shop floor data collection system that uses RFID to track work in progress.
Full Story
Auto-ID Center Adds Six Sponsors
The Auto-ID Center has added six new sponsors, including Mitsui & Co. Ltd., a major Japanese trading company. The new technology sponsors are Canon, Catalina Marketing Corp., ConnecTerra, KSW Microtec and Vizional Technologies.
Full Story
SAMSys Signs Four Resellers
SAMSys Technologies has signed partnership agreements with four value-added resellers. The Toronto company, which makes RFID readers, hopes the VARs will help it penetrate new vertical markets. Full Story
FEATURE
Military Orders RFID Tracking
RFID Journal has learned that General Tommy Franks has decreed that all supplies bound for Afghanistan must be tracked with RFID tags. Even as private companies hold back, the Department of Defense is dramatically expanding its use of RFID technology because the benefits are proven. And commercial industry can now use the infrastructure that the military has built.
Subscribers Only
OP-ED: The March of Folly
It’s natural for RFID vendors to resist not just the concept of a patent pool, but the entire direction the Auto-ID Center has taken. But no matter how much you’ve invested in IP, it is the march of folly to continue selling proprietary systems when the broad market has embraced open standards.
Full Story
