Operations

This section includes articles about how companies across many different industries are using RFID to improve operational efficiencies.

Registration Now Open for Two RFID Journal LIVE! Europe Events
For the first time, RFID Journal will host two European conferences—one in Norway and the other in the United Kingdom.

RFID Helps Morgan Thermal Ceramics Save Labor
The company has increased efficiency at its Mexico City plant, using EPC UHF passive tags and readers to track raw materials, as well as finished insulation products, prior to shipping.

Naval Surface Warfare Center Demos RFID Tool-Tracking Solution for Combat Ships
The system uses EPC Gen 2 UHF tags and readers to identify items loaded onboard, in cabinets stored within steel containers, enabling the U.S. Navy to reduce inventory-tracking time from 32 hours to two minutes.

RFID Helps Xplor Action Park Photograph Visitors as They Zip By
EPC tags embedded in safety helmets identify each individual, by means of readers installed in caves, along rivers and at the tops of towers.

Johns Hopkins' New Facility Tracks Food, Assets, Staff
Versus IR/RFID hybrid technology enables the hospital to know the locations of its equipment and employees, as well as automated carts transporting food, with a goal of improving efficiency.

RFID Journal LIVE! 2012 Report, Part 2

At RFID Journal's 10th-anniversary conference and exhibition, attendees heard real-world case studies explaining how to utilize radio frequency identification to improve their business. View the presentations from the RFID Journal Awards finalists and the event's main conference-track and solutions-provider sessions.

The Electronics Industry Discovers RFID—At Last

It appears that manufacturers of electronic devices have finally realized that the technology can reduce production costs and enhance products.

RFID Speeds Up Electric Pole Inspections

The Orangeburg Department of Public Utilities is tagging 30,000 poles to improve maintenance and repair operations.