RFID standards

What are RFID standards? RFID standards are guidelines or specifications for all RFID products. Standards provide guidelines about how RFID systems work, what frequencies they operate at, how data is transferred, and how communication works between the reader and the tag. Why are RFID standards important? RFID standards help ensure that RFID...

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Better weighing and dispensing technology is required in modern pharmaceutical companies

 Most pharmaceutical companies have made major inroads in applying advanced control technology to improve their manufacturing processes. However, these efforts often stop abruptly at weigh-and-dispense operations. The weighing and dispensing of pharmaceutical ingredients may seem mundane, but it's crucial. If a mistake is made at this traditionally...

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GAMP Standards For Validation Of Automated Systems

What’s GAMP? The Good Automated Manufacturing Practice (GAMP) Forum was founded in 1991 by pharmaceutical industry professionals in the United Kingdom to address the industry’s need to improve comprehension and evolving expectations of regulatory agencies in Europe. The organization also sought to promote understanding of how computer systems...

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Track and trace to avoid quality control disasters

Remarkably, the vast majority of food processing facilities around Australia still rely on human beings to do the track and trace inspections It is a critical aspect of quality assurance and food safety to identify a product at its origin and track and trace the forward movement through the entire process of the food supply chain, including...

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Automating Order Fulfillment with a New Generation of RFID

Back to the Future If you’ve been following our 100 days of RFID campaign from the beginning, you’ve known that one of the reasons we’re doing this is to celebrate 10 years of RFID in conjunction with our upcoming anniversary.  But, today we’re getting in the time machine to celebrate 15 years of RFID.  Come along for the ride as we...

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RFID-enabled Robots Create Efficiency in the Workplace

Robots have certainly undergone their share of transformation over the years – from the  stereotypical robot in “Lost in Space” to the child-friendly WALL-E – and I think Kevin Ashton, in a recent RFID Journal article, made a good point in arguing that robots have managed to shed creepy images, but have yet to...

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Enterprise Asset Management with RFID

ARC Advisory Group recently published a report titled "RFID Enables Improvement for Mobility and Enterprise Asset Management", in which they cite a "rapid uptick" in end user plans to implement RFID solutions for enterprise asset management (EAM).  According to a survey of 65 companies, ARC reports that a growing number are planning to move ...

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Everyday RFID – What You Can’t See is Making Your Life Easier

In a recent episode of The Big Bang Theory, the studio audience had a good hearty laugh about a character’s use of RFID – tagging, scanning, and tracking every item of his clothing – to “simplify” the process of packing for a weekend trip. Though we shared in the laughter as Sheldon happily takes only three hours and eleven minutes to enable...

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RFID + Cloud + BIM for Managing Personnel in Vertical Construction

ThingMagic has had the opportunity to design, build and run an RFID–based personnel management system on a large construction project in California. Only three months after going-live, the general contractor is blown away by the system benefits and the richness of the collected data. Construction management and building owners used to have to...

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Embedding RFID Modules with Ease

Like athletes constantly searching for the right combination of training and nutrition to make them stronger and faster, developers are always looking for new tools and techniques that make it easier to more quickly build smarter, more powerful applications. For both, it’s about maintaining that competitive edge that will set them apart from...

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Automated Data Collection (ADC) Basics

Automated Data Collection (ADC), also known as Automated Data Capture (ADC), Automated Identification (AutoID), Automated Identification and Data Capture (AIDC), and by many as just "Barcoding" consists of many technologies including some that have nothing to do with bar codes.  Voice systems, RFID, OCR, pick-to-light, laser scanners,...

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Hospital Inventory Control with UHF RFID

As introduced in posts earlier this week, RFID technology offers great potential to significantly reduce costs while improving materials management and inventory operations throughout hospitals and other healthcare facilities.  RFID-based solutions help hospitals answer the most fundamental questions of knowing who and where its patients...

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RFID Making Fresh Produce Cool

I have to admit that I buy organic milk, not just because I think it’s healthier for my family, but because I can stock up on it without the risk that it’ll go bad before we use it. Why does organic milk have such a longer shelf-life than regular milk? Maybe they’ve figured out something that the others haven’t. Maybe it’s Intelleflex. Recently,...

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Where Does Your Food Come From? RFID Knows.

Each year about 1 in 6 people in the United States gets sick from eating contaminated food, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Salmonella is responsible for many of the reported outbreaks and causes more hospitalizations and deaths than any other type of germ found in food. While E. Coli infections have been drastically reduced,...

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RFID + Cloud + BIM for Managing Personnel in Vertical Construction

ThingMagic has had the opportunity to design, build and run an RFID–based personnel management system on a large construction project in California. Only three months after going-live, the general contractor is blown away by the system benefits and the richness of the collected data. Construction management and building owners used to have to...

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Race Timing with RFID

On April 18th, 2011 over 25,000 participants are expected to run the 115th Boston Marathon – the oldest annual city marathon in the world.  In addition to its well known course meandering through eight Massachusetts cities and towns, the Boston Marathon is famous for several legendary participants.  Recognized as a Boston Marathon...

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