Health Care/Pharma: Celebration Health Improves Efficiency with RTLSCelebration Health, a Florida Hospital facility, is employing a real-time location system (RTLS) to measure the operational efficiency of its new patient tower, which opened in mid-August 2011. At the...
Health Care/Pharma: RFID Improves Management of Emergency Medicine KitsThe pharmacy department of the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC), a 750-bed hospital located in Baltimore, is employing an RFID-based solution to aid in the stocking of medication kits tran...
Health Care/Pharma: A Technology and ROI Roadmap for RFID in PharmaceuticalsThis presentation will explore the latest developments about the world's first completely automated RFID test system for unit- and case-level serialization for pharmaceuticals. Researchers at the Univ...
Health Care/Pharma: Using RFID to Maintain Patient SafetyIn the United States alone, more than 100,000 people die each year due to infections acquired during hospital stays. Many of these infections occur because health-care professionals failed to wash wel...
Manufacturing: ATK Uses RFID to CreateMoving from the decades-old practice of fabricating aircraft from discrete metal components to building aerostructures by cutting, forming and curing advanced composite materials, has produced a shift...
Manufacturing: Synthes Realizes Cost Savings Using RFID in Its Loaner ProcessMedical device manufacturer Synthes is using RFID to efficiently manage its loaner processes. By RFID-enabling distribution center processes—shipping, receiving, auditing and replenishment—Synthes has...
Manufacturing: Improving Visibility in Manufacturing With RFID-Enabled BasketsMarlin Steel Wire Products, a producer of custom wire baskets and other metal products, is employing an RFID-enabled system to increase visibility in the assembly process, to track components' locatio...
Manufacturing: Australian Oil Refinery Construction Site Tracks Assets With RFIDA global energy company is testing an RFID system from Australian firm Industrial Automation Group to track the locations of hundreds of thousands of assets at a major construction project in a remote...
Solution Provider Session: How RFID Solutions Drive New Business BenefitsRFID hardware has become more reliable over the past few years, enabling companies to take advantage of RFID data in new and powerful ways. Software solutions are enabling firms to reengineer processe...
Solution Provider Session: Best Practices in IT Asset ManagementOrganizations from Cisco Systems to the U.S. Social Security Administration have achieved significant operational benefits from using RFID to better manage their IT infrastructure. But achieving those...
Solution Provider Session: How RFID Provides Dependable Management and Traceability of Aircraft PartsFujitsu has expanded and enhanced its automated identification technology (AIT) solution for aircraft parts suppliers worldwide, enabling the management of individual parts and the accurate traceabili...
Retail/Apparel Track: Comprehensive Analysis of RFID Performance Within Retail Stores: What Can a Retailer Expect?The University of Arkansas' RFID Research Center has completed a detailed analysis of the EPC read environments of various retailers' stores. The study, comprising thousands of hours of exhaustive dat...
Supply Chain/Logistics: Open-Source and Off-the-Shelf: Using UHF RFID Technology to Reduce Costs and Improve EfficiencyAlthough high-frequency (HF) RFID has become the library vendor supplier standard in the United States, EPC Gen 2 ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) RFID has much more to offer libraries. The Grand Rapids Publ...
Supply Chain/Logistics: Improving Inventory Control and Security in Records Management Via RFIDThe management of information assets is becoming more critical within corporations and government agencies. Traditional bar-code-based tracking for files, tapes and boxes of material is proving to be ...
Supply Chain/Logistics: Using RFID to Track and Sort Commercial LaundryLike many other industrial laundry companies, Village Uniform and Linen searched for a solution that would enable the firm to efficiently manage the volume of items traveling to and from customers. Mo...