The Chicken or the Egg?

The Chicken or the Egg?

Manufacturers won’t benefit from tagging their items until RFID becomes widely adopted, but that won’t happen until manufacturers tag their items.

Visibility Down to the Item

Visibility Down to the Item

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing David Brock for an “Out in Front” story. Brock is the mad scientist who, back in 1996, came up with the ridiculously implausible idea of embedding a radio frequency identification tag in every item manufactured on Earth. A decade later, Brock’s idea not only doesn’t seem so farfetched, it’s actually starting to happen.

Renewed Buzz around RFID

Mike Witty, analyst with research firm Manufacturing Insights, notes in this guest contribution that despite predictions of stalled RFID adoption as recently as a few months ago, the first quarter of 2006 has seen great strides, and it appears that industry may be coming out of its funk.