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•Case Study: Motorola

Motorola's electrical engineering lab saves 17 man-hours per week with an RFID (radio frequency identification)-based asset tracking system.

Imagine the last time someone in your office borrowed something from you – a report, a file, even a ruler. Did you get it back in a timely manner? If the item was inconsequential, you probably weren't too concerned. But if the item was vital to your work, you felt differently. Now, imagine you rely on a piece of shared equipment to do your work, and people are constantly using it and forgetting to return it. Such was the case for Motorola's Electrical Engineering (EE) Lab.

The EE Lab includes 1,200 pieces of equipment such as gauges, oscilloscopes and similar tools, 50% of which can be in use at any time. Engineers work in the lab or take the equipment to their desks, sometimes leaving the item there for several days. If someone needed the equipment in the meantime, they had to determine who had it from a sign-up sheet (which wasn't always accurate or complete), then track the person down. Another problem was that, as a security measure, engineers could not access equipment without a supervisor letting them into the lab with a key. Depending on the supervisor's availability, engineers could wait hours, even days to access the equipment.

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