The global economic crisis is driving the automotive industry to adopt RFID to cut costs and improve efficiencies in the manufacture and distribution of cars—and to embrace standards to provide visibility in the global supply chain.
A report indicates that consumer goods suppliers are pleased with the performance of their RFID deployments, but that they are not yet generally using the technology to improve business processes.
The Basic House is applying EPC Gen 2 tags to garments at its manufacturing plants, and is also deploying RFID interrogators at two of its DCs and, initially, at 159 of its stores.
Companies should build an RFID infrastructure enabling them to manage everything that is mobile and not connected to the Internet, as well as all that is fixed and connected online.
By measuring the distance between RFID interrogators and passive tags, companies can better differentiate items as they pass through portals.