Contributed Editorial

  1. RFID-Based Materials Management - A Game Of "What If"
    8/9/2010
    No matter how effective a manual system may seem, because the recording of material movement is not automated, data becomes obsolete very quickly. To make matters worse, unique material identification numbers are often hand-written, painted, or etched onto material and can become faded, smeared, removed, or hidden by other materials or elements like grass, dirt, or snow. Thus, manual tracking of pre-engineered components leads to increased instances of components that are "not immediately found," which leads to higher costs and decreased productivity. By Jon Chesser and Vincent Hsieh, Atlas RFID Solutions
  2. RFID-Based Materials Management — An Overview
    7/15/2010
    Tracking and monitoring the location of construction assets on a jobsite is vitally important to project executives, owners, contractors, and suppliers. Yet this activity is a commonly overlooked aspect of field data acquisition. Timely and precise information about the status of critical assets such as pre-engineered components, equipment, tools, and labor resources allow contractors to bid more competitively on projects, and are directly related to the successful and profitable completion of a project. By Jon Chesser and Vincent Hsieh, Atlas RFID Solutions
  3. RFID As A Service: Core Vs. Context
    6/7/2010
    Is the ownership/management/expertise of RFID tags, hardware, associated middleware, and application software core to your company, or is the resulting insight into business operations and decision support that the ensuing location and timely data core to how you run your business? By Ravi Panja, President, InSync Software
  4. Going "Global" Never Looked So Easy
    5/25/2010
    It can be difficult to find a unique description of today's global economy. Many common comparisons or descriptors seem over-used, even trite. Going through this exercise, the words made famous by Disney, however simple, seem fitting and relevant. Business today is truly ‘a small world after all.' Considering this infamous melody, the statement "though the mountains divide and the oceans are wide, it's a small world after all" has never been as true as it is today. By Sandra Garby, Vice President, Product Management and Founder, RCD Technology
  5. The RTLS/RFID Technology Wars Are Over
    3/4/2010
    RTLS, RFID, sensors, and wireless... Now that the technologies are proven, it's all about deployment in productive applications to deliver new wins for management. By John C. Shoemaker, Executive Vice President, Ekahau, Inc.
  6. RFID as a Service (RaaS) Leveraging The Cloud To Drive ROI
    2/25/2010
    RFID Solutions Online is proud to present, How RFID As A Service (RaaS) Can Accelerate Your RFID Application Deployments, a guest series by Ravi Panja, President, InSync Software. Part 1 of this series focuses on the fact that RFID adoption, which is undeniably experiencing growth even in this tough economic climate, has still managed to lag considerably behind analyst projections at the beginning of this century. The reasons for this are far from uniform for each application, as each industry faces unique roadblocks. By Ravi Panja, President, InSync Software
  7. Guest Series: Select Meaningful Performance Measures
    1/14/2010
    You were sure you had the right performance measures in place to enable good management decisions in your business. You were positive those Six Sigma courses you put your key managers through were paying off. You were starting to think that the old adage "if it isn't broke, don't fix it" just might apply to your company. Everything was going well... until the recession came along. By Bill Arnold, Applied Wireless ID (AWID)
  8. Guest Series: To Control, Or Not To Control - That Is The Question
    1/5/2010
    Almost everyone is familiar with the question posed by the title character of William Shakespeare's play Hamlet — "To be, or not to be." It is, after all, one of the most famous quotations in literary history. By reading further into the soliloquy from which the quote is extracted, however, you see that the question is much deeper. And, potentially applicable to making the case for MRO/tool tracking in business operations. By Robert Holmes, WinWare, Inc.
  9. Measuring Inventory Management Success
    11/19/2009
    When it comes to managing MRO (maintenance, repair, and operations) inventory using RFID, the answer to the question, "How do you know when you've reached your goal?" can be elusive. Just as managing tool and MRO inventory is sometimes forgotten during the pace of everyday business, measuring what makes a successful tool and MRO management program can also be overlooked. Often, we go down the road of improving our MRO management because we simply know we aren't doing a very good job. We forget to benchmark, we neglect to set measurement tactics, and we lack an understanding of all the areas of possible impact. If we start without an overall understanding and measurable information, how can we gauge success? By Robert Holmes, WinWare, Inc.
  10. Guest Series: RFID Is A Powerful Visibility Tool
    11/12/2009
    There are many articles available today that provide potential RFID users with detailed guidance on the steps to follow for a successful RFID project. This type of article focuses on RFID technology and how to make RFID work, rather than answering the critical business questions, such as: "What areas of the business need to be improved?" and "How can we measure the improvement?" By Bill Arnold, Applied Wireless ID (AWID)

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