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Beaver Street Fisheries
Automates RFID Tagging
The frozen seafood supplier encounters a sea of change as it moves from
slap-and-ship tagging to an automated process on the assembly line.
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Phasing In RFID
Dairy Farmers of America met Wal-Mart's tagging mandate, and the
organization is now poised to reap internal benefits. |
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RFID Rocks at Graniterock
The construction materials company deployed an RFID system to improve
customer service and boost customer loyalty. |
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Wells' Dairy Milks RFID for
Benefits
The nation's largest family-owned dairy-products manufacturer not only met
Wal-Mart's mandate, but also developed an RFID system to drive improved
performance and profits. |
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RFID Ripens Cheese
Sachsenmilch AG, a German cheese maker, tags and tracks carts of cheeses to
improve quality control during production and comply with European Union
regulations. |
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Covering the Bases
It's peanuts, Cracker Jack and sensors, as government researchers test their
all-in-one chemical defense system at a California ballpark. |
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RFID Contains Solution to
Chinese Shipping Problems
China International Marine Containers recently launched an RFID pilot to
track containers from its factory to the storage yard. |
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Reading Books Reduces
Out-of-Stocks
BGN, Holland's largest bookseller, plans to roll out RFID at its 42 stores
throughout 2007 and 2008. |
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RFID Frees Up Patient Beds
St. Vincent's Hospital deployed a patient-tracking and real-time clinical
information system that improved the quality of care, increased revenues and
delivered an ROI. |
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Clothing Manufacturer Invests
Its ROI in RFID
Gardeur AG's RFID pilot to track garments from production to its warehouse
using reusable tags was so successful that it plans to roll out the system
company-wide. |
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Mississippi Blood Services
Banks on RFID
The not-for-profit organization tested an RFID system to manage and track
blood, improve safety, make deliveries more timely and lower costs.
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RFID Brings Order to a Chaotic
Office
Florida State University is the first educational institution to adopt 3M's
RFID Tracking System—and recoup its investment in less than a year.
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Dow Reveals a Chemical
Attraction to RFID
The manufacturer of plastics, solvents and other products is harnessing
RFID's power to deliver value to its business and customers. |
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RFID Becomes an Overnight
Sensation for Sernam
The French shipping company finds that a tag-and-reader system significantly
improves the efficiency of its overnight deliveries. |
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The Lahey Clinic's RFID Remedy
A top Boston-area hospital has learned that RFID can cure problems
associated with tracking and maintaining high-value mobile medical
equipment. |
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RFID Chops Timber Costs
Using tags embedded in plastic nails, German forestry company Cambium tracks
logs as they move from the forest to the factory. |
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Finland Post Finds RFID Can
Deliver ROI
After completing a two-month RFID trial, the national mail carrier believes
there is a clear business case for using tags to track reusable assets such
as roll cages and crates. |
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LEGO Puts the RFID Pieces
Together
By integrating RFID into its current shipping operations, the company not
only is able to comply with mandates from Target and Wal-Mart, it is also
saving money and labor compared with a standalone tagging system.
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RFID Lands at Frankfurt
Airport
After placing passive tags on such things as fire shutters, emergency lights
and even passenger lounges, Fraport has significantly improved the
productivity and accuracy of its maintenance operations. |
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Texas Lab Stocks Up With RFID
At the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, researchers find
that radio frequency identification gets them the supplies they need, 24-7. |
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EPC Bag Tagging Takes Wing
The Transportation Security Administration conducted an end-to-end trial
proving UHF EPC tags can be read in Asian, U.S. and European regulatory
environments, and that airlines can use the EPCglobal data model to share
bag tag data. |
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Navy Tracks Broken Parts From
Iraq
The U.S. Navy completed a six-month field trial involving the tagging of
more than 12,000 airplane parts and containers. Learn how much the project
cost, the challenges that were overcome, the results and why the Navy wants
to expand the project. |
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VW's Auto City Runs on RFID
As many as 700 customers daily pick up their new cars at Volkswagen's theme
park, where workers use RFID to ready each vehicle and match it up with the
right owner. |
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Dutch Banks Follow the Money
Rabobank branches save time and cut costs by using RFID to track cash
deliveries for their ATMs. |
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Motorcycle Maker Powers Up
With RFID
Customized bike builder Viper uses RFID to boost factory output, cut labor
costs, process repairs, serve its dealership and even comply with
Sarbanes-Oxley. |
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Bus Co. Keeps Tabs on Fare
Boxes
After a proof-of-technology pilot, a Vancouver bus company plans to roll out
an active RFID system to track its buses and fare-collection equipment.
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Mining for RFID's Benefits
At Anglo American Platinum's Paardekraal mine in South Africa, RFID is
saving dollars—and lives. |
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University Takes a Fresh
Approach to RFID
The University of Florida's Center for Food Distribution and Retailing is
finding ways to make RFID tags work on produce shipments and keep perishable
food from spoiling. |
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RFID Works Like a Charm at The
Tech
Visitors to Silicon Valley’s Tech Museum of Innovation are using an RFID tag
attached to a bracelet to create Web sites based on their experiences.
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SYSCO Gets Fresh With RFID
Using RFID-enabled temperatures sensors, wholesale food distributor SYSCO
and its suppliers and shippers reduce and track spoilage. |
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RFID Delivers Healthy Return
for Hospital
Jacobi Medical Center's RFID-enabled patient ID system not only enhances
patient care and staff working conditions, but will also save $1 million a
year when fully deployed. |
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Growers Sow the Seeds of
Success
By working together on a bunch of RFID pilots, including one involving
temperature sensors, a team of produce and plant growers and distributors
hope to harvest a crop of benefits. |
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Hampton Unlocks ROI From RFID
A supplier of locks and lighting to Wal-Mart deploys RFID "at minimal cost"
and achieves benefits, including faster invoice payment and the ability to
know which goods are lost or stolen. |
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Marching to Compliance and ROI
IT products provider GTSI was one of the first Defense Department suppliers
to meet the military's tagging requirements. Now it's searching for ways to
get a return on its investment. |
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Container Company Puts Lid on
Slip-Ups
With its RFID-based tracking system, U.K. container rental company pH Europe
not only boosted container utilization but also improved customer
satisfaction and gained the ability to offer new services. |
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Intel Takes RFID Inside
The semiconductor giant learned a lot about the potential business value of
RFID during a recent pilot to track tagged cases of microchips as it packed
and shipped them to an OEM customer. |
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RFID Delivers Newborn Security
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital uses RFID to track the location of its
newest patients and ensure they won’t be removed without permission. The
same system is being used to track assets. |
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ChevronTexaco Takes RFID
Offshore
A field test at one of ChevronTexaco's offshore platforms in the Gulf of
Mexico provides insights into how RFID can be used in shipping/receiving
operations. ChevronTexaco is now looking at other pilot projects.
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Tracking Assets from Prairie
to Peak
Within months of deploying RFID to keep tabs on its IT equipment, Colorado's
vast El Paso County expects to soon recoup its investment. |
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Airport Says Payback Is in the
Bag
When its RFID luggage-handling system goes online in January, the Hong Kong
Airport expects to lower labor costs, increase capacity and improve
security. |
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RFID Revs Up Hummer Plant
AM General needed to boost production of its Hummer H2 to meet demand, but
its manufacturing facility had limited space for parts. The automaker turned
to RFID to keep the plant humming. |
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NASA Creates Thinking RF
Sensors
Low-cost wireless sensor networks developed by NASA can detect environmental
changes and take action in response to what they detect. Now RFID is set to
make them even more effective. |
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RFID Gives Racing a Winning
Edge
Using active RFID tags, the Indy Racing League not only times and scores 16
events, it also provides critical data to drivers and race crews, and helps
engine, tire and chassis makers develop products. |
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Soap Maker Cleans Up with RFID
Canus, a maker of goat's milk soap, is deploying RFID to cut distribution
costs, keep products from spoiling in transit and meet Wal-Mart's tagging
requirements ahead of schedule. |
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RFID Brings Order to the Law
After a national law firm installed an RFID system to track legal files at
its Boston location, accuracy in locating files jumped from 35 to 98
percent—saving tens of thousands of dollars in time spent looking for
documents. |
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Chip Maker Tries ‘Snack and
Trace’
By using RFID to track shipments within its supply chain, KiMs, a Danish
potato-chip maker, not only spiced up its sales but also cut the fat from
its inventory and workforce. |
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Tracking Skiers for a Good
Cause
The White Pass ski resort raised more than $50,000 for the American Cancer
Society by tracking how many vertical feet skiers and snowboarders traveled.
The system could be used as a loyalty program. |
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Vendor to Foxhole Tracking
The U.S. Military's Combat Feeding Program pilot shows that RFID can be used
to provide real-time visibility of rations as they move from the
manufacturer to units in the field. |
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Golf Car Maker Scores with
RFID
By integrating RFID with its new assembly line, Club Car has cut production
time per golf car to 46 minutes from 88, improved its ability to customize
cars—and saved millions of dollars. |
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Farm Harvests RFID’s Benefits
After deploying an RFID receiving system, Paramount Farms cut its operating
costs, improved its relationship with growers and avoided having to invest
in expanding its facilities. |
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Safeguarding Shipping
Profitably
A project to secure cargo containers from seaport to seaport shows that RFID
can track shipments with 100 percent accuracy, improve safety and deliver
some compelling financial benefits to importers. |
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Case Builds for RFID in
Construction
Fluor Construction found that active RFID tags could track large metal pipes
stacked on a truck with 100 percent accuracy. But there are issues to
overcome before the technology is widely used in the construction industry.
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Brink's Arms Itself with RFID
To thwart robbers, the world's biggest security transportation company has
worked with RFID systems provider EM Microelectronic to develop an
innovative RFID-enabled money box that self-destructs. |
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Boeing Finds the Right Stuff
Boeing's Terry Alderson explains how his company uses RFID tags to track
parts as they move through its facility in Wichita, Kansas. The system
reduces costs and gives managers visibility into the parts pipeline.
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Perfecting Just-In-Time
Production
Johnson Controls makes car and truck seats that must be delivered to
automakers in precise order for just-in-time manufacturing. The company has
deployed a 13.56 MHz RFID system that has proven to be 99.9 percent
accurate. |
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Asset Tracking in Big
Organizations
Large organizations have a hard time tracking assets, like laptops. Pilots
at one of the largest US government agencies, the Social Security
Administration, prove RFID and creative thinking can save money.
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Air Canada GETS Asset Tracking
Reusable supply chain assets often seem to sprout legs and walk off on their
own. Learn how Air Canada used an innovative RFID system from Scanpak to
slash unexplained losses and improve food cart utilization globally.
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RFID Makes a Splash at Water
Park
An RFID locating system gives parents visiting Dolly's Splash Country piece
of mind, because kids are always tracked. It also gives the park the
opportunity to increase revenues by adding services, like cashless payments.
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RFID Speeds P&G Plant
Throughput
When Procter & Gamble's facility in Spain boosted throughput, the loading
dock became a bottleneck. RFID increased the speed at which pallets could be
loaded on trucks -- and it eliminated mistakes and cut costs. |
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The Key to Tracking Unique
Items
Britain's CD.id project shows RFID can be used to track individual music CDs
through the supply chain. The real challenge is creating a system that
benefits everyone, including the retailer that wants to prevent shoplifting.
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