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News For The Week Of August 11
IP Unveils RFID Enabled Warehouse
U.S. Body Adopts RTLS Standard
WOZ Claims Tracking Breakthrough
RFID Solution for Food Safety
TI Unveils RFID Textile Tag
FEATURED STORY
Perfecting Just-In-Time Production
OPINION
VCs Are Writing Checks Again
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TOP NEWS
IP Unveils RFID Enabled Warehouse
A lot of companies are talking about putting RFID in their warehouse. International Paper has done it. The world’s largest paper and forest products company announced that it has gone live with a fully automated RFID Warehouse Tracking System (WTS), which manages inventory at its Texarkana mill and warehouse.
Full Story
U.S. Body Adopts RTLS Standard
Real-time locating systems use active (battery-powered) RFID tags, readers and triangulation software to identify assets in large areas, such as a factory or distribution yard. Companies that wanted the benefits of using an RTLS system, such as Ford Motor Co. and Associated Foods, had to invest in proprietary systems that locked them into one vendor and left them vulnerable if the company went under. Now that's changing.
Full Story
WOZ Claims Tracking Breakthrough
Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple Computer, announced that he has invented a new kind of wireless network—dubbed wOzNet—that can be used with tags to track pets, children and assets from up to two miles away. The low-power, long-range technology could also benefit businesses.
Full Story
RFID Solution for Food Safety
Syscan International of Montreal has developed an RFID-based tracking system called Tempasure that provides a permanent record of a product’s temperature history during and after shipment. Syscan has traditionally offered RFID-based tracking and tracing for meat products through processing plants. The new system, which will be available commercially in October, can be deployed throughout the supply chain to the retail market.
Full Story
TI Unveils RFID Textile Tag
Texas Instruments plans to offer an RFID tagging system to the rental clothing and dry cleaning industries. The tags, which can be sewn into or attached to textile items, are expected to provide more accurate identification and improve the handling of individual items, from the start of the cleaning process through delivery to the customer.
Full Story
FEATURED STORY
Perfecting Just-In-Time Production
Johnson Controls' business is all about delivering what big automakers like DaimlerChrysler, Ford Motor Co. and General Motors want, when they want it and in the order they want. That's one reason the $20 billion Milwaukee, Wisc.-based suppler of car and truck interiors decided to deploy an RFID system in its Livermore, Calif. production facility. The 13.56 MHz RFID system has proven to be 99.9 percent accurate.
Paid Content
OPINION
VCs Are Writing Checks Again
Hidden among all the bad news about the continued bloodshed in Iraq, the terrorist bombing in Jakarta and the supposed end of privacy at the hands of RFID, there was some bright news for the RFID industry and end users last week. In the second quarter, venture capital funding in the United States grew quarter-on-quarter for the first time in more than three years. Venture capitalists are starting to discover RFID companies.
Full Story
SPECIAL SPONSORED SECTION
Visibility, Efficiency and Logistics
RFID, combined with telematics, can provide supply chain visibility, boost operational efficiency and give companies the flexibility to react on the fly to changes in demand. The only question is whether logistics companies will invest in the technology.
Full Story
IP Unveils RFID Enabled Warehouse
A lot of companies are talking about putting RFID in their warehouse. International Paper has done it. The world’s largest paper and forest products company announced that it has gone live with a fully automated RFID Warehouse Tracking System (WTS), which manages inventory at its Texarkana mill and warehouse.
Full Story
U.S. Body Adopts RTLS Standard
Real-time locating systems use active (battery-powered) RFID tags, readers and triangulation software to identify assets in large areas, such as a factory or distribution yard. Companies that wanted the benefits of using an RTLS system, such as Ford Motor Co. and Associated Foods, had to invest in proprietary systems that locked them into one vendor and left them vulnerable if the company went under. Now that's changing.
Full Story
WOZ Claims Tracking Breakthrough
Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple Computer, announced that he has invented a new kind of wireless network—dubbed wOzNet—that can be used with tags to track pets, children and assets from up to two miles away. The low-power, long-range technology could also benefit businesses.
Full Story
RFID Solution for Food Safety
Syscan International of Montreal has developed an RFID-based tracking system called Tempasure that provides a permanent record of a product’s temperature history during and after shipment. Syscan has traditionally offered RFID-based tracking and tracing for meat products through processing plants. The new system, which will be available commercially in October, can be deployed throughout the supply chain to the retail market.
Full Story
TI Unveils RFID Textile Tag
Texas Instruments plans to offer an RFID tagging system to the rental clothing and dry cleaning industries. The tags, which can be sewn into or attached to textile items, are expected to provide more accurate identification and improve the handling of individual items, from the start of the cleaning process through delivery to the customer.
Full Story
FEATURED STORY
Perfecting Just-In-Time Production
Johnson Controls' business is all about delivering what big automakers like DaimlerChrysler, Ford Motor Co. and General Motors want, when they want it and in the order they want. That's one reason the $20 billion Milwaukee, Wisc.-based suppler of car and truck interiors decided to deploy an RFID system in its Livermore, Calif. production facility. The 13.56 MHz RFID system has proven to be 99.9 percent accurate.
Paid Content
OPINION
VCs Are Writing Checks Again
Hidden among all the bad news about the continued bloodshed in Iraq, the terrorist bombing in Jakarta and the supposed end of privacy at the hands of RFID, there was some bright news for the RFID industry and end users last week. In the second quarter, venture capital funding in the United States grew quarter-on-quarter for the first time in more than three years. Venture capitalists are starting to discover RFID companies.
Full Story
SPECIAL SPONSORED SECTION
Visibility, Efficiency and Logistics
RFID, combined with telematics, can provide supply chain visibility, boost operational efficiency and give companies the flexibility to react on the fly to changes in demand. The only question is whether logistics companies will invest in the technology.
Full Story
