More than two years ago, Hewlett-Packard, the IT and computer products and services provider based in Palo Alto, Calif., started deploying RFID in parts of its manufacturing and distribution chain.

More than a third of the businesses using RFID are doing so to improve the cost, safety and reliability of managing work-in-process (WIP), according to a study released by the Aberdeen Group, a market ...

Symbol Technologies' $230 million cash bid last week to buy Matrics, a maker of RFID tags, is another clear indicator that this technology will become more ubiquitous in the next two years. And not ...

The services include business-case development, technological proofs of concept, internal pilots, trading-partner pilots, and full-system rollouts. IBM is selling them to industries such as aerospace ...

Early forays into the use of radio frequency identification (RFID) tagging in the healthcare industry were plagued with issues. 1 Despite advances over the past decade and the technology’s power to ...

A set of best practices designed to help assuage consumers’ concerns about RFID (radio frequency identification) tags was released on Monday by a group of technology vendors, RFID users and consumer ...

Wal-Mart’s first RFID deadline applied to only a small subset of its suppliers: pharmaceutical companies that handle prescription drugs classified as Class II narcotics. But their experiences shed ...

It can be a pain to wait at a toll booth. Luckily, RFID toll tags can help. RFID toll tags are small devices that drivers attach to their vehicle windshields, usually behind the rearview mirror. Each ...

Walmart recently discontinued a test of a machine that verified purchases people made using the retailer’s scan-and-go checkout solution at one of its stores in Bentonville, Arkansas, a spokesperson ...

At its Auburn, Mich. manufacturing plant, Dow Corning will be piloting the Tag Acquisition Processor (TAP) made by Chelmsford, Mass.-based Reva Systems to monitor work-in-process. The pilot will ...

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