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White Papers
Each month, RFID Journal receives numerous white paper submissions from outside experts. We read each paper carefully and select the most informative articles. Please note that we cannot guarantee the accuracy of facts or claims in these papers.
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Manufacturing white papers
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Track-and-Trace Solutions for the Manufacturing Industry
Published January 2012Manufacturers must frequently adhere to mandates required by the private sector and governments. In this document, SATO America discusses the pharmaceutical and food industries' specific mandates for ensuring consumer safety, and explains why track-and-trace solutions, including bar-coding and RFID technologies, must be implemented in order to ensure the integrity of drugs moving from manufacturers to consumers, and to improve stakeholders' productivity and profitability. (4 pages)
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Amreyah Cimpor Cement Co. Implements RFID-Powered SLV Cement Solution
Published October 2011Cachapuz Bilanciai Group discusses how it deployed its RFID-based SLV Cement solution at Amreyah Cimpor Cement Co., in Egypt, enabling the company to automatically manage its weighing, logistics and dispatching operations. (9 pages)
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Essential Now and in the Future: RFID in the Automotive Industry
Published September 2011In the automotive industry's production environment, radio frequency identification is a highly versatile technology for identification purposes. The introduction of RFID into a wide range of supply chain applications enables production and logistics operations to grow closer together technologically. In this document, Siemens AG discusses how this can give rise to new, trendsetting concepts along the automotive value chain. (3 pages)
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High-Memory RFID for Maintenance Use: Technology Options, Benefits and Answers
Published September 2011Tego briefly discusses radio frequency identification, Spec 2000, AS5678 and the benefits that RFID offers for the purpose of marking parts. (4 pages)
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Pointing the Way Contactlessly
Published May 2011Siemens AG has integrated automation and RFID technology into the production line at its electronics manufacturing plant in Amberg, Germany, where its SIMATIC S7 300 programmable logic controller (PLC) modules are built. In this document, the company discusses how it is meeting its goal of expanding its production capacity. (3 pages)
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RFID for High-Temperature and Demanding Applications
Published March 2011RFID continues to expand past supply chains to more demanding applications in manufacturing, health care, pharmaceuticals, automotive and rugged asset tracking. In this white paper, Xerafy addresses applications in which RFID tags face high temperatures, such as autoclave processes, harsh cleaning cycles and automotive manufacturing processes. This document introduces an RFID-in-metal tag family, the X II Series, that allows the implementation of a tag directly onto an asset early in the production process, thereby providing management with improved tracking information. (5 pages)
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Motorola’s Manufacturing RFID Solutions
Published September 2010Manufacturers are faced with globalization, increased competition and other economic pressures, and must continuously look to drive costs down, increase asset utilization and reduce material expenses, while at the same time addressing clients' demands for faster delivery, better customer service and customized products. Motorola explains why many manufacturers are looking to RFID to address these challenges. (4 pages)
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Facility Management With RFID
Published August 2010In the dynamic world of construction, coordination is a top priority. Inclusive in a construction site manager’s daily tasks are the ordering, receiving, handling and distribution of raw materials. Currently, these tasks are handled using manual tracking with paper manifests, manual data entry in facility and material logs, and perhaps through "mental notes" taken by the construction foreman. Xerafy explains how RFID can better meet facility-management challenges. (8 pages)
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Can RFID Tags Work Inside Metal?
Published August 2010Xerafy examines how RFID can significantly reduce the time it takes a company to conduct inventories, as well as how to embed tags in products made of metal, such as automobiles, at the point of manufacture. (4 pages)
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How Bar Codes and RFID Deliver Value to Manufacturing and Distribution
Published July 2010Zebra Technologies explains how advanced bar-code and RFID technologies can create sustainable advantages by providing the accurate information required for modern business practices, and how implementing these technologies can help companies realize a significant return on investment. (12 pages)
