
Manufacturing


Auto-ID Company Creates Its Own System for Managing Its Assets
With its homegrown solution, QR code inventor DENSO deploys its own handheld RFID readers, along with Confidex UHF RFID tags, to automate the audit counts of IT assets at its facilities.
RFID Automates Safety Equipment Inspection in Australia
SpanSet Australia has launched a solution that allows customers to inspect the slings, lifts and safety gear they purchase via automatic RFID tag reads, and to retrofit work equipment by applying labels and tracking them with the same readers, using a solution from CoreRFID.
Healthcare Supply Chain Management
RFID technology is helping providers tackle problems to improve patient outcomes.
Tageos Releases Industrial-Focused High-Memory Tags
With increased memory and sensitivity, the company's latest tags are intended to offer a low-cost solution to the aviation, logistics and manufacturing markets, in which the need for RFID sometimes outpaces supply.
Agribusiness Reaps Benefits from the Internet of Packaging
Thanks to RFID technology, farms can control production and inventories, factories can guarantee product authenticity and proper packaging disposal, and customers can thus know what they are consuming.
RFID News Roundup
U.S. Navy awards contract to VOS Systems for BLE contact tracing; Descartes Systems Group launches open network initiative for BLE air cargo tracking; WISeKey PKI enables IoT manufacturers to embed trusted digital certificates; Onset unveils BLE datalogger for vaccine storage, transportation; Pasternack intros Yagi antennas for RFID inventory tracking.
Swiss Manufacturer Employs Contact Tracing with UWB Devices
Kinexon's SafeZone solution tracks each time workers wearing SafeTags come within close range, then alerts them in real time, while storing anonymous information so contact tracing can take place before infections can occur.
Lyngsoe Systems Tech Tracks COVID-19 Vaccines with Passive RFID, Sensors
The company has released a solution to help vaccine manufacturers and governments digitize the tracking of vaccine distribution and administration via passive UHF RFID tags that measure temperature and liquid levels, monitor expiration dates and ensure vials are not reused.