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 [...]

When Paul Peters spoke at RFID Live last April,  the deputy assistant secretary of defense for supply chain integration for the Department of Defense indicated that the U.S. budget crisis would not slow the deployment of RFID in the Department of Defense. A year later, government spending on RFID projects has slowed considerably. Since the [...]

In a day and age when the government is trying to trim its budget, RFID can offer a significant savings. Placing RFID tags on missiles used by the U.S. Navy and by NATO, for example, could save up to $300 million in unneeded maintenance costs a year. Ten months after awarding a contract to ODIN to [...]

The use of high memory tags is catching on for MRO operations, where the name of the game has changed from simple asset tracking to storing information about various products. A video from Xerafy demonstrates how to save time and overhead costs by utilizing high memory RFID to store company maintenance records, process control identifiers [...]

The aerospace industry is strongly pursuing RFID technology for a variety of reasons, including tracking work-in-process, improving productivity and maintenance procedures. On Monday, Boeing, Alaska Airlines and Fujitsu announced that they will partner on a solution to speed up onerous maintenance and safety checks on Alaska Airline aircraft. The pilot program, which will be deployed in [...]

RFID TagSource has signed a cooperative research and development agreement with the Federal Aviation Administration that allows the firm to use the FAA’s laboratory facilities and resources at the FAA William J. Hughes Technical Center in New Jersey. The collaborative research will eventually help to enhance flight safety and maintenance operations by storing maintenance history [...]

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 [...]