Applications
Automotive
- Improve order turnaround times by identifying production discrepancies
early in the process.
- Gain more accurate information on inventory and finished goods
throughout the production process with traceable, unique identifiers.
- Improved yard management with continuous real-time awareness of the exact location for any tagged vehicle
- Increase inventory flow-through management with the ability to trace
tagged materials, finished products and fixed assets with end-to-end asset
awareness.
- Improve supplier and vendor relations by monitoring product quality and
reducing costs associated with inaccurate shipments.
Libraries
- Increase quality of service and improve efficiency of operations.
- Automate library functions such as a circulation, book checkout and check-in.
- Allow customers to check out items at self-checkout stations. This is becoming a necessity at most places, as libraries become short-staffed due to insufficient funds, and libraries can shift funds for more acquisitions.
- Reduce lines at the circulation desk and maximize patrons' benefits from the staff.
- Return items to shelves more quickly and more reliably
- Increase security / reduce theft.
- Vastly improved inventory control.
- Track in-library use and location of various materials, faster and more accurately.
- Reduce costs of processing new materials and acquisitions.
Livestock
- Get much faster identification of farm animals and data collection than can be done by handwriting numbers or scanning a barcode on a ear-attached plastic tag.
- Gain full traceability of livestock from their property of birth to slaughter, as customers around the world become more concerned about food safety and traceability.
- Obtain more accurate information when dealing with the safety of the food supply.
- Generate reports on carcass yield and quality with information going back all the way to the farm of origin.
- Improved on farm productivity through the integration of RFID systems with other farm business processes.
Manufacturing
- Move over from just-in-time manufacturing to real-time manufacturing.
- Provide automated materials tracking throughout the manufacturing process with full accountability of raw materials.
- Reduce out-of-stock items, decrease inventory by cutting the amount of safety stock kept on hand for sudden demand rises
- Reduce order lead time and provide higher asset utilization.
- Provide lower order cycle times, higher capacity utilization and better overall product quality.
Medical & Health Care
- Faster and easier compliance with new regulations resulting in reduced liabilities.
- Gain unprecedented efficiencies through
- Combine with mobile data capture and other telemetric systems for condition monitoring and security of shipments across the supply chain.
- Authenticate and track drugs from their manufacturing plants to wholesale partners to retail pharmacies.
- Deliver safer, better quality and more affordable products and services for significantly improving patient safety and overall quality of care.
Retail
- Reduce out of stock materials, minimize buffering and provide much faster inventory turn-around.
- Gain faster unload times, automated receipt and dispatch, and more accurate shipments.
- Achieve higher return on investment by replacing bar code-based systems and processes with no-line-of-sight and fully automated RFID systems.
- Automate currently manual warehouse receiving processes for better overall business performance.
Shipping & Tracking
- Decrease shrinkage and out-of-stocks for a more efficient business process.
- Gain faster transportation, smaller inventory and routing troubleshooting.
- Obtain greater efficiency and higher security resulting in lower and better insurance rates.
Warehousing
- Real-time visibility of content and items' locations throughout the warehouse.
- Reduce labor-intensive manual tracking of items to improve efficiency and data reliability.
- With the ability to always know where items are within the warehouse, never miss the delivery or transportation of items at their specified time.
- Gain shorter load and unload times resulting in faster picking and cross docking.