RFID Smart Shelves and Cabinets
Smart fixtures help businesses store, organize and inventory an array of high-value items accurately and with only minimal human intervention. Here's what you need to know to choose the system that best fits your company's needs.
By John Edwards
Aug. 24, 2009—Shelves and cabinets outfitted with radio frequency identification technology enable real-time, item-level tracking at an intermediate or final distribution point. These "smart fixtures" are helping retailers, discrete manufacturers, hospitals, and other kinds of companies and organizations control inventories and keep products in continuous stock by automatically tracking the arrival and distribution of individual assets. When you know the number and type of products that are on hand at any given moment, you can prevent over- and under-ordering, saving money and improving efficiencies.
There are several other reasons businesses are acquiring smart-fixture technology:
Quality control. Depending on the software, a smart-fixture system can track data beyond inventory levels, such as product expiration dates, batch numbers and origination points. This information can come in very handy if a product is ever recalled.
Aug. 24, 2009—Shelves and cabinets outfitted with radio frequency identification technology enable real-time, item-level tracking at an intermediate or final distribution point. These "smart fixtures" are helping retailers, discrete manufacturers, hospitals, and other kinds of companies and organizations control inventories and keep products in continuous stock by automatically tracking the arrival and distribution of individual assets. When you know the number and type of products that are on hand at any given moment, you can prevent over- and under-ordering, saving money and improving efficiencies.
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| Photographs from top left, clockwise: InnerSpace, Venture Research, Vue Technologoy and Mobile Aspects |
There are several other reasons businesses are acquiring smart-fixture technology:
Quality control. Depending on the software, a smart-fixture system can track data beyond inventory levels, such as product expiration dates, batch numbers and origination points. This information can come in very handy if a product is ever recalled.
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