Metsä Group, a provider of tissue and cooking papers, board, pulp and wood products, is deploying RFID to better manage its pulp supply chain and order efficiency. The company hopes that adopting RFID will revolutionize the pulp industry as other suppliers deploy the technology. The development is seen as a major advancement in the pulp and paper [...]
Metsä Group, a provider of tissue and cooking papers, board, pulp and wood products, is deploying RFID to better manage its pulp supply chain and order efficiency. The company hopes that adopting RFID will revolutionize the pulp industry as other suppliers deploy the technology. The development is seen as a major advancement in the pulp [...]
Her Majesty the Queen received a primer about the benefits of RFID technology during a visit to the University of Exeter in the UK last week. Queen Elizabeth II was briefed about a joint project between The University and QinetiQ. The goal of the project is to improve the accuracy of RFID when it comes [...]
The Orangeburg, S.C. Department of Public Utilities has tagged 4,000 utility poles with RFID tags, and hopes to tag an additional 5,000 this summer. The largest municipal electric utility in South Carolina stands to boost revenues by affixing tags to its assets in the field. Tagging assets like telephone poles and generators at substations is [...]
We recently published a case study about how the Agricultural Bank of China is using RFID to track money bags. When you think about it, tracking large sums of cash is a natural for RFID. So it should come as no surprise that the UK-based game show Million Pound Drop is using RFID to track [...]
When Mission Foods deployed RFID at its Texas distribution facilities in 2010, the company saved $700,000 on packaging costs by switching from corrugated boxes to reusable plastic boxes with embedded RFID tags. Last year Mission Foods rolled out the program to its West Coast DCs, resulting in an additional savings of $1 million. When the [...]
Chinese consumers are demanding new ways to authenticate products as concerns about counterfeit products rise in that country. For example, more than 150 million bottles of liquor will be tagged this year in the APAC region in an effort to verify product authentication. But liquor and consumer goods aren’t the only products being tagged with RFID. [...]
Sector: Retail Distribution Savings: $2.2 Million Submitted by Intermec Mission Foods, the maker of tortillas, chips, salsa and taco shells, is in the final stages of rolling out RFID to all of its North America distribution centers to provide better inventory accuracy and better efficiencies when it comes to tracking the returnable plastic containers (RPC) [...]
Sector: Aerospace & Defense Savings: ($2M-plus) Submitted by Intermec The U.S. Navy is using RFID in several ways, including monitoring the pack-up-kits, or PUKs, that are deployed each time a Navy aviation squadron is deployed. Each PUK contains 500-600 replacement parts worth more than $10 million. Using RFID has helped the Navy to gain better [...]
Sector: Finance Savings: $10-25M (estimate over 5 years) Submitted by RFID Global Solution Bank of America is savings upwards of $20 million from an RFID deployment to track more than 100,000 IT assets at 25 data centers in the U.S. and the United Kingdom. BoA estimates that tagging items like servers, blades and other IT [...]