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Archive for RFID & AIDC

This Week in Logistics News (July 19-23, 2010)

Posted on Jul 23 2010 | By Adrian Gonzalez · Comments (0)

Here’s what caught our attention this week in the world of supply chain and logistics:

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Last week was a relatively quiet one for news; this week, it was hard to keep up. Here is what caught our attention:

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Voice Recognition Basics

Posted on Jun 16 2010 | By Steve Banker · Comments (0)

Joe Pajer, COO of Vocollect, and Tom Murray, Vice President of Product Management, recently briefed me on their idea that logistics is entering the “voice-enabled warehouse era.” According to a study they commissioned, voice solutions have only penetrated about 10-15 percent of the warehouses it is well suited for, a percentage that I can’t verify but find very plausible. In light of the low penetration, I realized that providing… Continue reading

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More flexible forms of warehouse automation are emerging. One example of this is real-time location forklift automation—i.e., forklifts equipped with a real-time location system that allows drivers to proceed to a specified location and pick up (or put down) a load without the need for the driver to scan the location to prove that they have picked up (or delivered) the right load. This solution is designed for full pallet… Continue reading

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Visual Logistics: Replacing Text with Graphics

Posted on Apr 29 2010 | By Steve Banker · Comments (0)

The folks at Tecsys, a supply chain execution software vendor, sent me a whitepaper called Visual Logistics.  The concept is simple: information displayed to warehouse workers on RF terminals should be more visual.  Here is how picking information is typically displayed on a text-based RF terminal:

Traditional Text-Based RF Display (Source: Tecsys; click to enlarge)

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When supply chain folks think about anti-counterfeiting in the pharmaceutical supply chain, we naturally think about bar codes and RFID. Those technologies have a role to play, but the requirements go far beyond the simple tracking that occurs in many other supply chains.   

My colleagues Janice Abel and John Blanchard have written an ARC Insight (available to ARC clients only) on preventing counterfeiting in the pharmaceutical industry that… Continue reading

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Airbus to Use RFID Tags Extensively

Posted on Feb 04 2010 | By Steve Banker · Comments (1)

At the end of January, two RFID suppliers announced that the European aircraft manufacturer Airbus will be using RFID tags to track thousands of components and parts for the A350 XWB aircraft models. Airbus had previously announced that if a part is serialized, repairable, and replaceable, it would require either an RFID tag or a contact memory button (CMB). In pressurized areas of the aircraft, RFID tags will be… Continue reading

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Dow’s RFID Journey

Posted on Nov 20 2009 | By Steve Banker · Comments (0)

Three years ago, Dow Chemical, the largest chemical company in the world, began a journey to explore the usefulness of RFID to enhance security, improve customer satisfaction, and reduce costs. 

When Dow began to explore this new and still maturing technology, it put together a thorough set of processes to facilitate the analysis and adoption of RFID. Additionally, the company decided that RFID and GPS would work well… Continue reading

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