| Case Studies: RFID |
Textile Manufacturer, Griva S.p.A. 2007-Alien Technology Italian textile firm, Griva S.p.A., weaves RFID into a cost-saving manufacturing solution. Read More Vicaima Door Designer 2007-Alien Technology European door designer, Vicaima gains manufacturing efficiencies using RFID. Read More Serge Blanco Case Study 2010-TAGSYS Serge Blanco has reduced the time needed to prepare store orders from three days to less than 24 hours. The company is not only working faster, but also more accurately -- it has not made a shipping error since it began using RFID. Read More Jade Jewellery Case Study 2008-Motorola Saudi Arabia's luxury retailer Jade Jewellery implements Motorola's RFID technology to improve inventory management and security. Read More Southeastern Container Case Study 2009-Motorola Southeastern Container turns to Motorola and decisionpoint systems for RFID asset tracking expected to deliver thousands of dollars in annual savings and a two-year ROI. Read More Falabella Case Study 2008-Motorola The Falabella Group, a retail giant in Latin America, operating department stores, home improvement stores and supermarkets in Chile, Peru, Argentina and Colombia, looked to RFID to provide great improvement in inventory accuracy. Read More Freightliner Case Study 2008-Motorola Freightliner-Western Star Trucks, the leading heavy-duty truck manufacturer in North America, designs, builds and markets the best-selling brand of medium, heavy-duty diesel and specialized chassis trucks on the continent, including long-haul highway tractors, heavy-duty construction and utility trucks, mid-range trucks for distribution and service, emergency service apparatus and recreational haulers. The company looked to automate inventory tracking to improve accuracy and efficiency. Read More State of Texas Case Study 2007-Motorola The Emergency Management Division in Texas deploys Motorola RFID to improve orderly real-time evacuation tracking during emergencies such as hurricanes. Evacuees are tracked with RFID-enabled wrist-bands and Motorola fixed readers. Read More McCarran International Airport Case Study 2007-Motorola McCarran Airport uses Motorola RFID to improve its baggage tracking to nearly 100% and provide end-to-end baggage visibility. Read More American Apparel Case Study 2008-Motorola American Apparel uses RFID for inventory management. Benefits: increased stock visibility; improved accuracy/reliability of inventory counts; decreased labor costs; virtually 100% stocked sales floor. Read More Alameda County Case Study 2008-Motorola Voting equipment in Alameda County is tracked using RFID MC9090-G handheld readers. Benefits: Electronic confirmation of voting equipment, increased speed of collection process, faster vote count, and reduced overhead costs. Read More AMT Case Study 2007-Motorola The Montreal Transit Authority uses RFID to increase overall bus ridership by improving the customer experience. RFID provides riders with real-time arrival/departure information and increased bus visibility to terminal managers. Read More Canadian National Railway Case Study 2007-Motorola Canadian National Railway uses RFID to nearly double productivity, increase supply chain efficiency and save costs. Read More Dow Corning Case Study 2008-Avery Dennison, Lowry Computer Working with two materials that have caused issues for other RFID systems—metal and liquid—Dow Corning developed a high-accuracy RFID system to monitor work-in-process at its chemical processing plant. Read More Carmarthenshire County Council 2008-CoreRFID Carmarthenshire County Council needed a better way to manage the information about their workplace IT assets totaling more than 14,000 across 140 site. They chose RFID technology because of its benefits over other approaches, such as bar-coding, by making it easier and quicker to check the location of devices and by making it easier to tag some of their smaller assets such as smart phones and PDA's in a robust manner. Read More Santa Clara County Crime Lab Case Study 2008-Alien Using RFID solutions from Alien Technology®, the laboratory can track and monitor the movement of evidence as criminalists and other staff members check it out of storage and take it for testing. Read More Nederlands Institute for Sound & Vision Case Study 2008-CoreRFID Ltd. The Institute for Sound & Vision (Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid) in Hilversum, is using RFID technology to provide an interactive experience for visitors to their new exhibition. Read More Mount Vernon 2008-HID Global As a significant national landmark, Mount Vernon's need for security has been a top priority since its opening nearly 150 years ago. Today, Mount Vernon employees utilize a one-card system for both identification and physical access, providing optimum convenience. Read More SigmaPoint Technologies Inc. 2008-HID Global SigmaPoint provides high quality engineering manufacturing services, and the company had been unable to quantify whether their employee resources were optimally allocated. A new time and attendance system offered operational efficiencies and savings to the bottom line. Read More Diakinisis S.A. Case Study 2008-Alien Multinational corporations and Greek firms alike expect the highest quality integrated logistics services from Diakinisis. With more than 25 years in business and a long history of technology leadership, Diakinisis turned to RFID to improve service to customers and gain operating efficiencies for one of its major customers--a global food conglomerate. Read More Fast Track Convenience Case Study 2008-Alien The Automat was a culinary revolution in 1902, but over the past century, vending machine food has become synonymous with boring, stale and unhealthy. But the food service industry turned to RFID to revitalize the grab-and-go food market. Read More Turkish Municipality Vehicle Tracking 2007-Alien Technology Turkish municipality gives the green light to using RFID for vehicle tracking. Read More Cephalon-Improving Patient Safety with RFID 2007-Impinj Cephalon, an international biopharmaceutical company, improved patient safety with RFID-enabled packaging and logistics. Read More Metro Group’s Galeria Kaufhof 2008-Impinj The Metro Group set out to prove the value of UHF RFID across a broad scope of business processes spanning the distribution center to the retail floor. Their aims included greater supply chain visibility, real-time inventory management, and strategic data mining. Read More Los Angeles Marathon 2008-Impinj Working with ChronoTrack Systems, a timing and tracking equipment company, Impinj supplied technology to time participants in the 2008 Los Angeles Marathon. Race directors enthused over the results, saying it contributed to the best race in the LA Marathon's 23-year history. Read More Dutch Forensic Institute Case Study 2008-GlobeRanger The technology and government compliance challenge at the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI) was to establish and guarantee the Chain of Custody of crime scene evidence by tracking & tracing materials during the process of investigation at NFI. Read More Jöbstl Warehousing & Fashion GmbH Case Study 2007-WhereNet Jöbstl distributes fashion merchandise for the Charles Vögele Group (Vögele), which operates more than 750 clothing stores in Austria, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, and the Netherlands. Using locatable active RFID, combined with supply chain systems, they were able to transform manual-intensive business processes by automating workflow and increasing capacity and throughput. Read More |