The company plans to work closely with Boeing to enable a just-in-time manufacturing process ... scale tests involving the placement of passive RFID tags on shipments of products sent from KMM’s ...

And smaller tags are opening the gate for multitudes of potential applications previously thought too small to accommodate an RFID tag. A tag measuring only 23 x 5 mm, for example, was released to the ...

After I wrote last week that radio frequency identification technology will be a must for all retailers in the future (see Why RFID Is Essential in Retail), several readers sent me emails asking if I ...

Even as products leave the four walls of a facility, active RFID is being used to track shipping containers as they cross the ocean or travel down the highway. In many manufacturing facilities, ...

The earliest uses of radio frequency identification (RFID) in manufacturing ... is in real time. Making adjustments, performing optimizations, looking at histories or just finding the right ...

Inventory Control in Manufacturing, Clinical Trials ... watch as the product inventory is depleted and order more on a just-in-time basis. Pfizer, GSK, Cephalon, Novartis, Purdue Pharma, and ...

What if the same RFID "smart barcode" tags used to track packages and retail inventory could also detect changes in the real ...

This month, Slate is exploring how to reinvent American manufacturing ... or just how it fit into the larger product? More than 60 people had been burned by the coffee makers by the time ...

Moreover, just-in-time manufacturing doesn’t necessarily mean a company is saving money on its supply chain – often, companies just have a distributor or supplier maintain a warehouse ...

Japan’s Omron plans to more than double its production capacity of RFID (radio frequency ID ... to 350 million inlays per year by this time next year, he said. An inlay is the combination ...