The medical manufacturing and health-care industries have 120 days to comment on the new rules, which will require many medical devices to carry a printed text identification number and bar-code label or RFID tag ID that would be stored on an FDA database.
A study conducted by Retail Systems Research indicates that retailers have in-store issues that RFID can solve, but they don’t seem aware of what the technology can do.
Nedschroef, a Dutch manufacturer of metal fasteners for the automobile industry, tracks information regarding 4,500 metal containers filled with as many as 100,000 nuts.
The German manufacturer of industrial air conditioners now has visibility into which parts are arriving at its final assembly plant.
Atmel announces low-frequency RFID transponder; Fujitsu launches new chip for high-frequency RFID tags with large memory capacity; U.S. retailers lose billions to theft, but loss-prevention technologies like RFID are helping; GAO RFID offers 4-port fixed UHF Gen 2 RFID reader; Smartrac refinances loan to strengthen financial flexibility.
GS1 Italy and GS1 Hong Kong have completed a project demonstrating how EPC technology could improve supply chain management, through greater visibility of crates of wine being shipped from Europe to Asia.
A recent agreement among chipmakers is designed to enable apparel suppliers and others to use RFID tags with different chips, but you should look at the issues carefully before opting for serialization solutions that employ the tag ID.
Wolftank is providing a solution that includes nanotron Technologies active RFID tags to send alerts as soon as fuel seepage is detected.
The Ontario start-up company says its TereTags could be built into products or logos at a fraction of the cost of existing, larger inlays.
REWE supermarkets expand rollout of Mojix RFID system; HID Global debuts tiny RFID glass tag; Samsung UK promotes NFC RFID-enabled ticketing for live events; ID&C’s contactless payment wristbands appear again at Isle of Wight Festival; Futura Mobility, AeroScout announce health-care partnership for real-time location system; Enso-Detego updates detego software suite.
The company is installing Smartrac NFC tags on 150 SmartPix kiosks deployed in Britain, enabling NFC phone users to quickly upload photos, via Bluetooth, for a variety of printing services.
Low-frequency tags and readers provided by Trac ID will help the oil and gas company to determine the lifespan of each pipe lowered into an oil well.