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News For The Week Of Oct. 20
Meeting Wal-Mart's RFID Mandate
U.K. Trial Addresses Privacy Issue
New Way to Print Ink Antennas
Smaller, Cheaper Readers on Order
RFID Tags for Harsh Environments
FEATURED STORY
Logistics Gets Cheaper by the Yard
OPINION
Identity Crisis
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Meeting Wal-Mart's RFID Mandate
Three of Wal-Mart's top 100 suppliers reveal how they are moving forward to meet the retailer's requirement that they tag pallets and cases beginning in January 2005. Key executives from Kraft Foods, Proctor & Gamble and Pfizer spoke at a meeting of the Warehousing Education and Research Council held in Cleveland, Ohio, last week. The event was organized and broadcast over the Internet by Material Handling Management magazine.
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U.K. Trial Addresses Privacy Issue
Marks & Spencer, one of Britain's biggest retailers, began a trial to track clothing as it moves from one of the company's distribution centers to a single store. The retailer consulted with privacy groups and took pains to address the privacy implications of the trial, setting an example for others in the retail industry.
Full Story
New Way to Print Ink Antennas
Carclo, a British maker of high-performance injection-molded products for the automobile, medical and communications industries, has found a way to print conductive inks with a digital inkjet printer. The breakthrough could make it possible to print antennas with conductive inks cheaply and efficiently.
Full Story
Smaller, Cheaper Readers on Order
Alien Technology, the Morgan Hill, Calif., company that pioneered a low-cost way of creating RFID tags, has turned to RF semiconductor designer and supplier WJ Communications to deliver small, economical Class 1 EPC-compliant readers operating in the UHF band. The two companies announced the joint development of the reader last month.
Full Story
RFID Tags for Harsh Environments
Quelis ID Systems, a startup RFID manufacturer based in Mirabel, Canada, near Montreal, is launching a line of low-frequency (125 KHz) tags designed to withstand harsh warehouse and manufacturing environments. The company's SmartQDisk products are RFID tags encased in special epoxy or ABS formulations that resist heat and cold throughout the lifetime of a product.
Full Story
FEATURED STORY
Logistics Gets Cheaper by the Yard
NYK Logistics, based in Secaucus, N.J., struggled to manage more than 50,000 inbound ocean freight containers and 30,000 outbound trailers passing through the gates of its Long Beach, Calif., distribution center annually. Several months ago, the company implemented a real-time locating system that uses battery-powered RFID tags to track the location of assets in the Long Beach yard. Now NYK knows exactly where each trailer is parked and can locate containers to within 10 feet. The system has cut costs and increased operational efficiency in numerous ways, including slashing the average turn time-how long a trailer stays in its yard-by 20 to 40 percent.
Premium Content
OPINION
Identity Crisis
Competitive advantage will go to the manufacturing, logistics and retail companies that figure out how best to use the data from RFID systems. Identity management-the ability to manage identity data using an infrastructure that makes the process of authentication, authorization and administration automatic-is going to be a huge part of that. "The networking of business processes across business boundaries has now become possible," says Phil Becker, editor-in-chief of Digital ID World. "Soon it will be a requirement for businesses to survive."
Full Story
Meeting Wal-Mart's RFID Mandate
Three of Wal-Mart's top 100 suppliers reveal how they are moving forward to meet the retailer's requirement that they tag pallets and cases beginning in January 2005. Key executives from Kraft Foods, Proctor & Gamble and Pfizer spoke at a meeting of the Warehousing Education and Research Council held in Cleveland, Ohio, last week. The event was organized and broadcast over the Internet by Material Handling Management magazine.
Full Story
U.K. Trial Addresses Privacy Issue
Marks & Spencer, one of Britain's biggest retailers, began a trial to track clothing as it moves from one of the company's distribution centers to a single store. The retailer consulted with privacy groups and took pains to address the privacy implications of the trial, setting an example for others in the retail industry.
Full Story
New Way to Print Ink Antennas
Carclo, a British maker of high-performance injection-molded products for the automobile, medical and communications industries, has found a way to print conductive inks with a digital inkjet printer. The breakthrough could make it possible to print antennas with conductive inks cheaply and efficiently.
Full Story
Smaller, Cheaper Readers on Order
Alien Technology, the Morgan Hill, Calif., company that pioneered a low-cost way of creating RFID tags, has turned to RF semiconductor designer and supplier WJ Communications to deliver small, economical Class 1 EPC-compliant readers operating in the UHF band. The two companies announced the joint development of the reader last month.
Full Story
RFID Tags for Harsh Environments
Quelis ID Systems, a startup RFID manufacturer based in Mirabel, Canada, near Montreal, is launching a line of low-frequency (125 KHz) tags designed to withstand harsh warehouse and manufacturing environments. The company's SmartQDisk products are RFID tags encased in special epoxy or ABS formulations that resist heat and cold throughout the lifetime of a product.
Full Story
FEATURED STORY
Logistics Gets Cheaper by the Yard
NYK Logistics, based in Secaucus, N.J., struggled to manage more than 50,000 inbound ocean freight containers and 30,000 outbound trailers passing through the gates of its Long Beach, Calif., distribution center annually. Several months ago, the company implemented a real-time locating system that uses battery-powered RFID tags to track the location of assets in the Long Beach yard. Now NYK knows exactly where each trailer is parked and can locate containers to within 10 feet. The system has cut costs and increased operational efficiency in numerous ways, including slashing the average turn time-how long a trailer stays in its yard-by 20 to 40 percent.
Premium Content
OPINION
Identity Crisis
Competitive advantage will go to the manufacturing, logistics and retail companies that figure out how best to use the data from RFID systems. Identity management-the ability to manage identity data using an infrastructure that makes the process of authentication, authorization and administration automatic-is going to be a huge part of that. "The networking of business processes across business boundaries has now become possible," says Phil Becker, editor-in-chief of Digital ID World. "Soon it will be a requirement for businesses to survive."
Full Story
