The 11th annual RFID Live Journal conference kicked off yesterday in Orlando with an increased confidence in the role that RFID will play in businesses moving forward. While retail continues to have a major focus in the exhibit hall, asset tracking solutions also had a strong presence, as did systems for the healthcare and medical [...]

Airbus has become the first commercial aircraft manufacturer to deploy RFID part-marking to aircraft components on all its aircraft families. This year RFID is being rolled out to all seats and life vests for the A320, A330 and A380 aircraft families. Airbus expects to tag 160,000 pieces, including 120,000 life vests and 40,000 seats. The [...]

Sector: Aerospace Savings: $3-4 million Airbus has always been a leader when it comes to RFID innovation. As of last year,  Airbus has deployed nearly 20 industrial projects in the “non-flyable” category, ranging from warehouse logistics to tooling management and work-in-progress tracking. According to a recent issue of Fast 47 magazine, which is produced by [...]

Sector: Aerospace Annual Savings: $2.5M Euros Submitted by OAT Systems TAP Portugal has deployed an RFID-based system into its daily engine maintenance operations, a move that will save the company more than $2.5 million Euros each year. According to TAP officials, this is the first known system that has been totally integrated in production in [...]

Qantas Airlines has nearly perfected the paperless airport, and I can’t wait until other airlines wake up to RFID and start to make the traveler experience more seamless and user friendly. As profiled in the New York Times this week, Qantas deployed RFID technology in Sydney, Australia in 2010. The technology has gone a long [...]

The transportation sector continues to be a hotbed of activity for RFID. This week Avery Dennison announced that it has been awarded a three-year contract by McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas, Nev., to continue to supply RFID tags for its baggage handling system. Although McCarran doesn’t represent a new deployment, additional airports are lining [...]

We’ve covered a lot of developments in the aerospace sector when it comes to RFID and how the technology will benefit the airline industry. Airbus, which is scheduled to deliver its new A350 line beginning in 2013, says that each new plane will include from 3,000 to 10,000 RFID tags to simplify maintenance and safety [...]

Boeing, a longtime leader when it comes to introducing RFID to the aviation sector, will roll out a new system for airlines that will allow them to utilize RFID when it comes to conducting maintenace operations and other procedures on planes. Boeing plans to launch the service in the first quarter of 2012. Boeing has [...]

Carlo Nizam, head of value chain visibility and RFID for Airbus, provided updates on several RFID initiatives at today’s general session at RFID Live. RFID has greatly helped Airbus at several of its European operations. In Hamburg, Germany, Airbus turned to RFID to keep track of 800 container shipments. Airbus utilizes just-in-time manufacturing, so there [...]

The aerospace industry has long been a pioneer when it comes to RFID research. Today, a pact between Airbus, MAINtag SAS and Tego will take that innovation to a new level. By early next year, thousands of Tego’s high memory tags will find their way onto aircraft parts across the Airbus A350 XWB fleet. Approximately [...]