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 [...]

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) [...]

Omni-ID used the 3rd Annual Auto-ID & Sensing Solution Expo held at MIT on Wednesday to unveil its new visual RFID tagging system, which is targeted to manufacturers who utilize Kanban or just-in-time production systems. The Omni-ID ProVIEW visual tagging system, which features active tags that start at about $20 apiece for high volumes, eliminates [...]

Black Elk Energy specializes in buying under producing oil and gas wells, primarily in the Gulf of Mexico, and applying capital and technology to make them profitable. Black Elk is also a proponent of deploying technology within its internal operations, including an RFID-based document tracking system that allows it to locate documents quicker. The system [...]

Black Elk Energy specializes in buying oil and gas wells, primarily in the Gulf of Mexico, that are under-producing and applying capital and technology to make them profitable. By the end of 2011, the company was valued at nearly $950 million. The company also deploys technology within its internal operations, including an RFID-based document tracking [...]

Monitoring only the last known location of an asset is often not sufficient in many applications as it does not give information about the direction in which the asset was moving in order to intelligently predict its next location. This is driving the requirement for RFID systems to report directionality in addition to the asset [...]

For years, Alpha Baking sent out thousands of reusable assets every day, not knowing how long those bakery trays would be tied up in its supply chain, or if they would even return. Before the company discovered RFID technology, even manual tracking processes were too cumbersome to track the trays. In September, Alpha Baking concluded [...]

For years, Alpha Baking sent out thousands of reusable assets every day, not knowing how long those bakery trays would be tied up in its supply chain, or if they would even return. The trays were valued in the hundreds of thousands. It’s akin to passing out $100,000 each day, with the hope that all [...]