RFID

Ten years after the Walmart mandate, Macy’s is finding value in RFID technology by looking at it differently.

Acquisition will increase central U.S. presence and expand RFID.

With suppliers jumping on the RFID bandwagon and more deployments looming on the horizon, the future of RFID remains promising. Here are the market drivers that continue to push ADC/RFID adoption and examples of facilities that are putting it to work.

Global 3PL replaces paper-based system with removable RFID tags and cloud-based software to double gate throughput.

SICK (Booth 1031) launched a new radio frequency identification (RFID) interrogator at ProMat.

With the $600 million deal, Honeywell adds RFID and voice to its portfolio

Company's RFID-based technology to be used in intelligent reusable containers.

The ADC market continued to rebound, posting solid numbers once again in 2011.

Visibility into industry-wide database provides actionable fleet data for executives.

Acquisition reflects the strong market for logistics informatics solutions.

Suppliers, retailers and solution providers seeking help on efficient identification, serialization and placement of Electronic Product Code (EPC)-enabled RFID tags should benefit from new guidelines that were announced today by the Board of Directors of the Voluntary Interindustry Commerce Solutions Association (VICS).

Proponents have changed the conversation and have started tagging at the item level in what the industry is now calling a “source-to-store” approach.

To combat waste in the food supply chain, packaging companies are employing technology to monitor goods.

SATO, a pioneer in the Automatic Identification and Data Collection (AIDC) industry and a leader in barcode printing, labeling, and EPC/RFID solutions, announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Achernar of Argentina, a privately held corporation based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and one of the region’s most renowned providers of adhesive labeling solutions founded in 1971.

Sanjay Sarma, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor, and Mike Rose, Vice President of Supply Chain Visibility for Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems, Inc., have been elected chairman and vice chairman, respectively, of the EPCglobal Board of Governors.