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Auto-ID white papers

• A Buyer's Guide for Auto ID-enabled Supply Chain, Issue #1: Reading Is Fundamental—Auto-ID Reader Hardware for Medical Device Operations
  Published July 2010

  This document, the first in a series from Raftar Corp., provides a practical assessment model for making critical solution design and selection decisions when deploying automatic-identification technologies in the health and life sciences supply chain. (13 pages)

• Automated Tool Management Programs: Improving ROI Through Effective Process Improvement
  Published July 2010

  This white paper from Balluff, Inc., examines the processes of manual versus automated tool management, offering an in-depth examination of process-improvement methodologies, as well as a case study and associated ROI calculations providing evidence to justify an upgrade to automated-identification systems. In addition, Balluff suggests ways to save money, improve productivity, increase tool life, reduce waste and increase machine up-time through effective machine-tool management. (8 pages)

• Increase Visibility and Velocity With Real-Time Asset-Management Solutions
  Published July 2009

  Zebra Enterprise Solutions explains how it assists public sector organizations in tracking and managing essential assets in a number of environments, including lean manufacturing; maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO); equipment and asset tracking; and flight line operations. This document also explains how the U.S. Army Depot at Tobyhanna, Pa., within a year of implementing automated identification and RFID technologies to locate disassembled parts at various stages of the refurbishing process, achieved near-real-time visibility into each item's status, saving an estimated $450,000 annually. (2 pages)

• RFID in Construction
  Published December 2006

  This report—submitted by Erabuild, in cooperation with the National Agency for Enterprise and Construction, Tekes, DTI and the Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning—examines the current state of RFID in construction and facilities operations, as well as the technology's current and future potential uses in such environments. (100 pages)

• Securing the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain
  Published September 2005

  The complexity of the U.S. health-care system is increasing rapidly. Demographic changes, along with a host of new drugs, are causing greater volumes of raw materials and finished products to move through the pharmaceutical supply chain. This white paper from MIT's Auto-ID Center addresses how to fight the resultant counterfeit drug using auto-ID technology.

• RFID Technology and Its Uses for Automatic Identification Data
  Published November 2004

  Submitted by SATO America, Inc., this document describes the basic components of an RFID system and explores the technology, applications and competitive advantages of RFID and its uses for automatic identification data collection (AIDC).

• Auto-ID Center Savant Specification
  Published September 2003

  This paper, published the Auto-ID Center, has the original specification for the Savant software that was designed to be the central nervous system of the EPC network.

• EPC Class 1 Specification
  Published November 2002

  This Auto-ID Center document specifies the original radio frequency communication interface and reader command functionality requirements for an UHF EPC Class I RFID tag.

• Auto-ID Center Field Trial Report
  Published September 2002

  This Auto-ID Center paper describes the results of the initial phase of the center's field trials, in which pallets of goods were tracked from several manufacturing facilities to several retail distribution centers and stores. Reports on phases two and three were never published.

• Executive Briefing: Towards an Approach to Intellectual Property
  Published August 2002

  The open system concept is that common linking technologies should be available for use by everyone. Providing this availability requires such considerations as licenses, patents, copyrights and trademarks, or else the emerging competitive market for products and services compatible with an open system may be impaired or restricted. This question touches on a number of philosophical issues. Kevin Ashton's white paper summarizes these and other questions, but does not seek to address them or express an opinion.

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