The RFID Research Center at the University of Arkansas has found that the right system to automatically identify and locate tools can improve efficiencies, saving manufacturers time and money.
Alien Technology's CEO told EPC Connection attendees that the company is seeing significant sales growth for closed-loop applications of RFID, rather than demand from goods manufacturers seeking to comply with retail-industry tagging mandates.
The trade group Chemical Industry Data Exchange has teamed up with EPCglobal to develop an RFID business model and foster RFID standards that benefit chemical manufacturers.
By offering an open-source low-level reader protocol toolkit to RFID interrogator manufacturers and software developers, the group expects to help lower the cost of RFID implementations.
To help companies compare tags and select the RFID transponders best suited to their products and applications, the EECC tested 20 passive EPC UHF tags from six manufacturers.
The move will make it easier for RFID vendors to sell equipment in China, and for goods manufacturers to streamline their global supply-chain processes.
Frost & Sullivan expects the market for RFID applications for automotive, aerospace and industrial products manufacturers to grow to $225.7 million in 2012.