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Medical Center Set to Grow With RFID After a decade of seeking automated tracking for medical devices, Southern Ohio Medical Center has deployed a Radianse system to locate its assets. The hospital hopes to expand the system to monitoring patients.

Custom Cabinetmaker Deploying RFID to Track Production Northway Industries is employing EPC Gen 2 tags to improve managers' visibility and better identify delays, prioritize manufacturing and provide information to customers.

Tracking Totes With RFID Gives Co-Op Fast Results To cut down on theft of high-value items, a U.K. retailer cooperative has adopted RFID-enabled totes to improve shipment visibility.

Monsanto Hopes to Sow Benefits by Tagging Seed Packets The company's Agracetus division is set to launch a pilot next month to evaluate RFID for tracking cases of experimental seeds.

Lufthansa Technik Uses RFID to Expedite Aircraft Repair At its German facilities, the aircraft-maintenance service provider is attaching EPC UHF tags to documents that accompany airplane parts, reducing the need for manual data entry.

Raflatac Releases RFID Tags With Built-In EAS Optimized for retail applications, the EPC Gen 2 tags are designed to be read equally well from all directions—even on densely stacked garments—and have an electronic article surveillance function that can be switched on and off.

Industry Leaders to Keynote at RFID Journal LIVE! 2008 RFID Journal's sixth annual conference and exhibition will feature addresses by Procter & Gamble COO Bob McDonald, Sam's Club executive VP Greg Johnston, and Motorola Enterprise Mobility CTO Ray Martino.

U.K. Seal Maker Puts RFID to the Test AESSEAL assessed EPC Gen 2 tags and interrogators at GS1 UK's new RFID test center, with plans to deploy the technology to speed up the time needed to receive and locate products.

Crystal Group Uses RFID Tags to Track Garment Production The Hong Kong knitwear company has installed RFID interrogators at 8,000 sewing stations in three of its plants, so that it can record the number of garments made by each worker.

EPCglobal Launches Consumer Web Site Its mission is to educate the general public about how RFID and EPC technologies can be used to better their lives.