Macy's Inc. to Begin Item-Level Tagging in 850 Stores
The company plans to RFID-enable its Macy's and Bloomingdale's stores in 2012, and will tag garments most often replenished—accounting for about 30 percent of the retailer's sales.
Grupo Vidrala Tracks Bottles From Production to Shipment
The Spanish glass manufacturer is using a system from JSV Infomatica y Comunicaciones to improve efficiency and reduce errors as pallets of product move though its warehouse and on to customers.
Australian Coal Mine Tests RFID's Ability to Prevent Collisions
The recently piloted solution—designed by CSC Australia, and installed by Becker Mining Systems at BHP Billiton's Dendrobium mine, in New South Wales—can also be used to improve productivity.
SmartHat Developers Hope to Make Construction Sites Safer
Researchers at Georgia Tech and Duke University have developed and tested an energy-harvesting EPC Gen 2 RFID tag and reader designed to alert workers and equipment operators in the event of an imminent collision.
Pantex Nuclear Weapons Plant Adopts RuBee RFID to Track Tools, Chemicals
The plant is also using the technology for tracking weapons in its armory, while beginning to install it at its health-care center.
Aerospace Materials Provider Automates Prepreg Temperature-Tracking
The company is using ZigBee-based RFID logger tags to measure the amount of time that rolls of composite material are outside of freezers.
Hartford Encourages Its Food-Industry Clients to Deploy RFID Temperature Tags
A strategic alliance between Hartford Financial Services Group and Intelleflex is designed to improve visibility into the conditions of perishable-food shipments, thereby reducing spoilage and helping to lower the cost of insurance premiums.
Belgian Drugmaker Uses RFID to Help It Test Its Products' Stability
The company is utilizing a custom solution involving bar codes and radio frequency identification to track which products are at its facility, where they are located and the phases of testing they have undergone.
Medical Marijuana Companies Use EPC Tags to Keep Things Straight
Denver-based LeafTrack is providing its RFID-based tracking system to help producers meet state requirements, track the condition of each plant, and receive alerts if any plant's health is in decline.
Motorola Solutions Releases Fixed Reader Designed for Challenging Applications
The FX9500 model will replace the company's existing XR series, providing manufacturers and other industrial users with a fixed interrogator offering better read accuracy in hostile environments, as well as a longer read range.
