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If you do business with the DoD, it is critical for you to take advantage of the Item Unique Identification (IUID) policy! The Forum provides military program managers & DoD contractors the critical information necessary to implement the mandatory IUID policy for eBusiness enabled life cycle traceability. Register at www.UIDforum.com.
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| Featured Articles | |  The Key To Widespread RFID Adoption
By Clarke McAllister, Chief Technology Officer, ADASA Inc.
Wal-Mart and Sam's Club have issued RFID tagging mandates to selected suppliers. However, most suppliers remain hesitant to respond to those mandates, choosing to limit their project objectives to tactical goals such as baseline compliance — calculating them as a cost of doing business rather than embracing them as a strategic customer alliance or business process initiative.
| | UHF Gen 2 Interoperability
By Impinj, Inc.
RFID hardware interoperability determines the ability of tags and readers manufactured by different suppliers to work interchangeably — to be, in fact, plug-and-play. This is critically important to end users, who simply need to know that the Gen 2 readers they've installed in their warehouses, distribution centers, or retail stores will read all the Gen 2 tags that come
through their doors — regardless of what company or companies manufactured them.
| |  Retail RFID Compliance
By Alien Technology Corporation
First-time RFID compliance initiatives can be intimidating. Fortunately, the technology has matured into easy to use solution sets that, in many cases, have become virtually transparent. Nonetheless, whether starting a compliance effort or working to expand one's first steps towards compliance, nothing is more beneficial than establishing a solid foundation of knowledge through training.
| | Texas Instruments And RecycleBank Make An Environmental Difference
By Texas Instruments RFID
The technology that RecycleBank sought had to contribute to the greater cause and make recycling easy for consumers, hands-free for waste haulers, and fiscally responsible for communities. Because RecycleBank works in direct cooperation with city services, waste haulers, material recovery facilities, and reward partners, the company was seeking a credible, experienced technology provider. It was also important to create the right solution, the first time.
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| Featured Products | Motorola RFID Tags
You need an RFID tag that will endure exposure to the elements (and more) if you plan on using it outdoors — especially for demanding cargo and asset tracking applications. Get the durability designed to withstand 24-hour-a-day exposure to nearly any environmental condition with an all-weather RFID Cargo Tag from Motorola.
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|  | Domino EIS RFID Compliance 1st Program For DoD
Compliance 1st offers DoD suppliers a clear path to achieve rapid compliance for recent mandates, and also provides strategic planning on how to maximize that compliance investment for future ROI. With Compliance 1st, Enterprise Information Systems provides the hardware, software, services and planning necessary to reach immediate DoD compliance.
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|  | MIKOH Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Solutions
The FDA recently reported that RFID is the most promising technology to secure the integrity of the supply chain by providing an accurate drug pedigree, documenting the distribution of the drug from the point of manufacture to the final dispenser.
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|  | M/A-COM Fixed Reader Antennas
The M/A-COM Slimline series of RFID antennas includes single- and dual-element, circularly polarized, fixed reader antennas. They feature high gain and wide beam width to increase reader range and low VSWR to minimize wasted power.
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|  | IDENTEC SOLUTIONS Container Management
Equipping the containers with ILR® tags identifies them explicitly.
The containers are automatically registered by ILR® readers
distributed throughout the factory and the data is transmitted to a
host computer. Information about location, quantity, type or
contents of each container is available on-line at any time.
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| Featured Downloads | | Infrared/RFID Tags Help Anne Arundel Medical Center Reduce Labor Costs | Anne Arundel Medical Center, located in Annapolis, MD, is employing a hybrid RFID and infrared technology solution known as VISion Asset Management to pinpoint the locations of assets that can be accessed by medical staff. The system, provided by Versus Technology, can locate an item to within a few feet, according to H.T. Snowday, Versus' chief technology officer.
| | Convergence CS101 Handheld RFID Reader | CS101 is a UHF EPC C1G2 handheld RFID reader with industry-leading read range and read rate performance to enable ultra fast inventory of cases on pallet, warehouse shelves, moving vehicles, and other tagged items in business processes where fixed-reader class performance is required in a portable device.
| | Combine RFID And GPS For Asset, Inventory Management | | Setton Pistachio farms had no visibility into whether or not the drivers were going where they were supposed to, or when they would return. Furthermore, when the crop did come into the processing plant, the company had to rely on the drivers to determine which orchard it came from. It was possible for the drivers to make mistakes, which left Setton Pistachio to try to piece together where that crop came from. |
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Plans are set for the 11th Annual CribMaster User Conference to be held May 3rd - 6th at the Legacy Lodge Resort at the beautiful Lake Lanier Islands in north Georgia. This year's conference promises to be better than ever as we learn to optimize the CribMaster system to help you and your customers optimize the management of their indirect materials.
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Intermec products and services are used by customers in many industries to improve productivity, quality and responsiveness of business operations, from supply chain management and enterprise resource planning to field sales and service. Intermec technology is consistent with all relevant and evolving standards and specifications, including the newly evolving ePC RFID specification.
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