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News For The Week Of Sept. 29
Linking RFID to Enterprise Apps
New RFID Supply Chain System
RFID Journal Launches Print Edition
OATSystems Gets Venture Funding
MPI Rolls Out Label Applicator
FEATURED STORY
Boeing Finds the Right Stuff
OPINION
Chief Evasion Officers
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TOP NEWS
Linking RFID to Enterprise Apps
Many middleware vendors have been developing products that filter data from RFID readers. Most of the products are based on Savants, distributed software created by the Auto-ID Center to provide smooth data and to find information related to Electronic Product Codes. ConnecTerra, based in Cambridge, Mass., has gone up the food chain and created what it calls the first platform to employ an application-level event-based Savant.
Full Story
New RFID Supply Chain System
Checkpoint Systems, a Thorofare, N.J.-based provider of product-identification and shrink-management systems, has demonstrated an end-to-end RFID system for retailers and consumer packaged goods suppliers. Checkpoint is positioning itself in the RFID market as a known partner with proven technology and a track record of installing and supporting RF systems.
Full Story
OATSystems Gets Venture Funding
Privately held RFID software developer OATSystems has landed $11.5 million in first-round funding. The company, which has been a key technology sponsor of the Auto-ID Center, says it will use the money to grow its management and marketing teams and to develop a new tracking application.
Full Story
MPI Rolls Out Label Applicator
Items tagged with the faulty RFID labels can’t be tracked. MPI Label Systems says it’s solved this problem with the first label applicator head to test and write to embedded RFID tags in labels that can then be printed on. The Sebring, Ohio-based company demonstrated the new machine—dubbed the 360 RW label applicator—at a recent trade show.
Full Story
FEATURED STORY
Boeing Finds the Right Stuff
Boeing's Terry Alderson explains how his company uses ultra-high frequency RFID tags to track parts as they move through its massive manufacturing facility in Wichita, Kan. It took three years from the time the company started exploring the potential of RFID to the time the system went live in June, but it is reducing costs and gives managers visibility into the parts pipeline.
Premium Content
OPINION
Chief Evasion Officers
Despite the fact that Wal-Mart and the U.S. Department of Defense have indicated that they will require suppliers to put RFID tags on shipments, a lot of CEOs seem to have put their heads in the sand and are refusing to acknowledge the importance of this technology. CEOs that do not support RFID projects do not deserve the support of their boards.
Full Story
Linking RFID to Enterprise Apps
Many middleware vendors have been developing products that filter data from RFID readers. Most of the products are based on Savants, distributed software created by the Auto-ID Center to provide smooth data and to find information related to Electronic Product Codes. ConnecTerra, based in Cambridge, Mass., has gone up the food chain and created what it calls the first platform to employ an application-level event-based Savant.
Full Story
New RFID Supply Chain System
Checkpoint Systems, a Thorofare, N.J.-based provider of product-identification and shrink-management systems, has demonstrated an end-to-end RFID system for retailers and consumer packaged goods suppliers. Checkpoint is positioning itself in the RFID market as a known partner with proven technology and a track record of installing and supporting RF systems.
Full Story
OATSystems Gets Venture Funding
Privately held RFID software developer OATSystems has landed $11.5 million in first-round funding. The company, which has been a key technology sponsor of the Auto-ID Center, says it will use the money to grow its management and marketing teams and to develop a new tracking application.
Full Story
MPI Rolls Out Label Applicator
Items tagged with the faulty RFID labels can’t be tracked. MPI Label Systems says it’s solved this problem with the first label applicator head to test and write to embedded RFID tags in labels that can then be printed on. The Sebring, Ohio-based company demonstrated the new machine—dubbed the 360 RW label applicator—at a recent trade show.
Full Story
FEATURED STORY
Boeing Finds the Right Stuff
Boeing's Terry Alderson explains how his company uses ultra-high frequency RFID tags to track parts as they move through its massive manufacturing facility in Wichita, Kan. It took three years from the time the company started exploring the potential of RFID to the time the system went live in June, but it is reducing costs and gives managers visibility into the parts pipeline.
Premium Content
OPINION
Chief Evasion Officers
Despite the fact that Wal-Mart and the U.S. Department of Defense have indicated that they will require suppliers to put RFID tags on shipments, a lot of CEOs seem to have put their heads in the sand and are refusing to acknowledge the importance of this technology. CEOs that do not support RFID projects do not deserve the support of their boards.
Full Story
