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By WinWare, Inc.

RFID technology has developed the necesssary standards to function as a way to improve the logistics operations of suppliers and manufacturers. Hats off to EPC Global, Spec 2000 and some of the other organizations that put their best foot forward to make sure these standards were established. Thanks to those companies who have focused on the movement of this technology to improve the logistics / supply chain operations, a new breed of asset management and indirect material management systems have surfaced.

Closed loop, indirect material, asset management...these are terms commonly used by companies to describe the means in which they have utilized this technology to prove real results in everyday operations. Almost every operation has challenges associated with managing assets or indirect material of some type. It may be a large office who can't keep control of office supplies, a technology company who can't keep up with their laptops or hand-held computers or a manufacturer who can't keep up with spare parts or tool inventory.

A closed loop RFID system is described as a system that basically completes an entire task and is not required to have standardized information to share amongst systems of other organizations. The system may share information with other internal software, but the tag will not have information embedded into it that will make sense to any other software system. The RFID tag of a closed loop solution will often times have a unique identifier that will marry to more extensive information about the item contained in a database. When this tag is viewed by RFID readers attached to the closed loop system it will make the match and know that the ID number of 12874537 embedded on the tag is identifying the tagged item as a Black and Decker Cordless Drill with a serial number of BD567-9823-DR. To any other RFID system it is simply 12874537 and we know nothing else about it.

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