RFID

Uniden selects Catalyst RFID software

RFID mandates set by Wal-Mart and Best Buy prompted Uniden to engage the supply chain mana...

RedPrairie announces RFID 360 compliance software

Waukesha, Wis. The first softwar...

RedPrairie leads RFID project for Unilever

Waukesha, Wis. - beginning this week. The pilot will enable Unilever to implement and test RFID technology in its supply chain to prepare for compliance with the mandates from Wal-Mart other...

Software company enters health space with RFID solutions on hold

, a Milwaukee developer of bar code and radio frequency identification software, Andy Matter has seen identification software used to track parts in the aerospace and computer industries, so it was only a matter of time before healthcare facilities came calling for help with identifying patien...

RFID pilot project aims to improve blood banks

is partnering with three blood banks and multiple vendor partners on what is b...

RFID system aids hospital in tracking assets

- The biggest fear for a doctor may be losing a patient, but a significant annoyance is missing equipment. In the hectic environment of a hospital, there are hundreds of supplies to keep track of and no way to watch every one - a process that often leaves doctors rooting around in the supply closet for an IV stand or jumping from room to room in the hunt for a defib...

Company defends RFID implant product

Scott Silverman, chairman and CEO of Applied Digital, the parent of VeriChip Corp., said the company's practic...

Neenah lab helps firm ship RFID-tagged products to Wal-Mart

The use of Gen2 RFID-tagged cases for the shipment of Huggies brand diapers is the company's next step in the implementa...

Executives hear about promise, limits of RFID and nanotech

Wisconsin business executives gathered in Milwaukee to hear how radio frequency identification and nanotechnology can make their businesses more competitive, but while several applications are tantalizingly close, barriers remain. The technologies were outlined during a session of the Wisconsin Innovates Conference. Although presenters Alfonso Gutirrez, director of the <a href="http://ww...

Promega spins off RFID 'smart appliance' company

Terso Solutions...

The RFID crystal ball: Will the chips eventually talk to us, too?

None of the people who paid good money for those better seats is concerned about your presence, because...

Passports to contain RFID chips next year

International travelers will find a new accessory among their standard travel gear starting in late 2006: an RFID-equipped passport. The new passports, mandated by State Department regulations, will feature a 64 KB chip containing a duplicate of the information featured on the passport's physical page, which the government hopes will strengthen national security. "The electronic...

Pacific Cycle rides full speed into RFID

The company, which owns such traditional brands as Schwin...

Wisconsin plant is part of NCR's global RFID initiative

The plant, part of NCR's Systemedia group, produces various types of labels and thermal tran...

Making RFID mainstream

The physics related to the antenna is where things can get complicated and challenging. Overcoming those challenges is a key to bringing the pric...

TEKLYNX International announces new RFID software

The updates enhance label design capabilities, expand LABELVIEW support f...

RFID medical devices - Opportunities and challenges

on information technology opportunities noted that the FDA sees radio frequency identification (RFID) technology as critical for the long-term safety and integrity of the U.S. drug supply. RFID allows pharmaceutical packages to be tracked, traced and authenticated throughout the chain of distr...

RFID can be a matter of life and death in the medical world

"Everybody wants to focus on the supply chain now, and there are tremendous applications in health care a lot of ap...

Serigraph will manufacture, sell RFID system

MIKOH's Smart&Secure technology disables an RFID tag if it is interfered with after its original positioning, t...

RFID starting to make real impact on business

With today's issue, Wisconsin Technology Network launches a special section devoted to radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. While the technology is not new, it is only now beginning to make a real impact on business. It is from that perspective that we present this series of articles on RFID, articles written by WTN writers and contributed by Wisconsin experts in business and academi...

RFID technology is opportunity for Wisconsin companies

As radio frequency identification (RFID) becomes increasingly widespread - moving out from behind the four walls of private companies that previously used it for their own purposes to become a cheaper, more available technology - it remains a highly fragmented industry with pockets of development virtually everywhere, says Prof. Raj Veeramani, director of the <a h...

RFID gaining investment momentum

From a supply chain perspective, the key driver has been "the mandates," primarily driven by <a href="http://...

Efforts to avoid friendly fire spawned ancestor of todays RFID

British soldiers seeking ways to identify friendly aircraft in World War II were given a newly developed radar transponder system called IFF - Identification Friend or Foe. It was a crude system, but it was a way to tap into technology to identify something at a distance. Fast forward 65 years, and you'll find researchers working on today's version of remote identifi...

RFID's advantages and challenges

When you drive thru Illinois you now pay a premium for using cash or coins at the tool booths unless you buy an I-Pass device for your car. If you stop for gas at a Mobil gas station you might see some people waving a small plastic device on their key chain to pay for gas. These are two examples where RFID technology is being used for e-commerce applications to reduce costs, improve efficiency, a...

RFID expert says piecemeal approach won't work

Those comments came from Patrick Sweeney, CEO of Virginia-based and author of RFID for Dummies, who...

UW-Madison RFID technology lab debuts Friday

"People are on a waiting list, but no one is canceling" to make room for those on the list, said Nancy Gores of the Universi...

Tommy Thompson to get RFID implant

Thompson, who also served as Secretary of Health...

The key to finding RFID's ROI

Companies that are trying to justify RFID investment wholly on the basis of anticipated savings in labor, operational efficiencies, and shrinkage in their supply chain are merely deluding themselves. In fact, if a company does find significant opportunities in these areas, it means that gross inefficiencies exist in its operations, and that the company can achieve m...

Conference studies applications and lessons of RFID

, the conference looked at the steps for implementing RFI...

RedPrairie releases prepackaged RFID systems

RFID involves putting radio tags on products or containers that can be used to track them. Wal-Mart, for one, made sweeping mandates that its suppliers begin using RFID on all p...

UW-Madison workgroup helps state companies tap the power of RFID

In the United States and elsewhere, hundreds of major companies are scurrying to develop strategies for implementing radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology af...

Test center for RFID capabilities opens next week

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North-woods beef jerky maker adopts RFID to track shipments

With the help of Wisconsin-based Jack Links is headquartered in Minong, Wisconsin. ABC Comp...

E-business conference to give sneak peek into university RFID laboratory

The universitys E-B...

RedPrairie to use RFID in collaborative products

These partnerships include combining the products of communications-tracking fi...

Rockwell Automation opens new RFID lab

MILWAUKEE recently announced the opening of a new radio frequency identification, or RFID, test lab at the company's global headquarters in Milwaukee. The lab, which simulates a factory warehouse, is designed to help manufacturers facing production and inventory mandates from retailers understand how they can make RFID tec...

Upgrading your business with RFID

Waukesha, Wis. Versatility was the word of the day last Thursday at the as a panel of business representatives from across Wisconsin told the tales of their experiences with RFID in upgrading their business. With a broad spectrum of industries represented, ranging from prescription drugs to laundry servic...

Laying the foundation for RFID

Waukesha, Wis. Whenever a new piece of technology comes out on the open market, it seldom begins its life as an instant success. More frequently, it is seen as an expensive toy or impractical contraption that is waiting for early adopters, who are often making a risky gamble. To become successful, it must be studied by t...

International Paper takes RFID out of the lab and into its warehouses

WAUKESHA, Wis. Now that At the RFID Conference June 17 near Waukesha, held by <a href="http://www.einnovate.org...

RFID: a 30-year project

WAUKESHA, Wis. Comprehensive RFID systems for automatic inventory tracking are not quite here yet. But At the RFID Conference <a href="http://www.einnovate.or...