Red one. Green one. White one. The trendy punch buggy game is still a hit when people spot a VW Beetle on the road. But keeping track of the cars just got much easier at the Volkswagen plant in Bratislava, the largest city in Slovakia. The automaker recently rolled out RFID sensor technology from Identec [...]

In case you missed this week’s lead story in RFID 24-7, we’ve posted it here: Tremendous progress has been made when it comes to the ability of RFID technology to work on metal and with liquids. Companies like Xerafy and Omni-ID have taken the mystery out of on-metal tagging, and RFID-based solutions are common in aerospace, medical, automotive and [...]

Tremendous progress has been made when it comes to the ability of RFID technology to work on metal and with liquids. Companies like Xerafy and Omni-ID have taken the mystery out of on-metal tagging, and RFID-based solutions are common in aerospace, medical, automotive and many other industries. The development of an antenna-less RFID tag by [...]

  This white paper addresses the thought process that leads original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to place greater emphasis on determining the best path to take when it comes to embedding RFID into their products.

Sustainable Management Systems has completed a pilot with the Orangeburg, S.C. Department of Public Utilities to deploy RFID across a network of transmission and distribution poles. The utility was able to reduce overall inspection and maintenance time by a minimum of 45 percent through SMS’ PIMS workflow process application. By affixing RFID tags to utility [...]

The Dayton RFID  Convergence Center is scrambling to find a new business model that will boost revenues for the center after contributions from member companies were lower than expected. According to the Dayton Daily News, the center will remain open while Dayton city government and its development arm, CityWide Development, try to determine a sustainable [...]

A key advantage of RFID technology is its ability to provide efficient, low-cost, item-level visibility into any process. Such visibility in turn brings about the possibility of process change. For process-intensive companies, this change can prove the difference between a black or red bottom line.

Lexar Media turned to RFID technology to strengthen collaboration across the supply chain to provide the information needed to enable more timely and better informed decision making, and to improve the accuracy and efficiency of warehouse operations.  

The arrival of machine-to-machine (M2M) communications is causing manufacturers to accelerate their use of RFID, a development that bears close watching by network operators and technology suppliers targeting that marketplace. A new report titled “Manufacturers Show Increased Interest in RFID-M2M Systems” examines how RFID and M2M technology in the manufacturing sector is being used today, [...]

According to experts, RTI assets have an annual shrink rate of up to 25 percent. The U.S. Postal Service estimates it loses about 20 percent of its plastic pallet inventory every year – at a cost of nearly $23 each. In spring 2009, the USPS was forced to make a $30 million emergency purchase just [...]