New Paper Examines Alternative Technology to RFID for Retailers and Manufacturers
9 June 2005
A new paper, entitled “The Alternative to RFID: Finding the Silver Bullet for Traceability,” examines the benefits of an alternative technology to RFID in rapid multiple-asset AIDC and asset tracking applications.
“Retailers and manufacturers know that traceability is a must-have for many products, ranging from sirloin cuts to baby cribs to steel-belted radials,” notes Roger Hecker, product manager, ImageID Ltd. “Unfortunately many intelligent packaging solutions designed to deliver real-time visibility with end-to-end traceability are not yet ready for primetime.”
The paper discusses the challenges facing the deployment of RFID today, compares RFID vs. Visidot accuracy levels, and describes automatic identification and data capture (AIDC) solutions in key manufacturing and retail industry applications.
“Supply chain and logistics operations need near-100% reading accuracy, real-time data for true visibility across the supply chain, standards-based solutions for interoperability with other systems, a cost-effective solution with minimal recurring costs, and solutions that work now,” Hecker said.
In the paper, three applications of the Visidot Automatic Identification and Data Capture solution are examined, including inbound and outbound shipment verification, management of reusable assets and identification of labels from long distances and in a large field of view, involving:
- A Ford Motor Company plant in Dearborn, Michigan, where the Visidot system is boosting productivity as part of its fully automated Build Order system to produce Ford F150 trucks
- IFCO Systems’ use of Visidot technology to trace, obtain real-time inventory data, record shipments and returns of millions of its reusable plastic containers at its Service Centers and Storage depots throughout Europe and North America
- In the retail supply chain field, the Visidot can help reduce costly charge-backs from retail customers by verifying all of the boxes in each outbound order and use of the stored image from each read for proof of shipment and condition.
The paper, “The Alternative to RFID: Finding the Silver Bullet for Traceability,” is available as a free download from: http://www.visidot.com.
About ImageID and Visidot:
ImageID, the provider of the Visidot™ solution (http://www.visidot.com), develops and markets advanced multiple-asset Automatic Identification and Data Capture (AIDC) solutions. Based on imaging technology and sophisticated algorithms, the Visidot solution is capable of identifying and decoding hundreds of unique standard barcodes simultaneously in a single read, with unprecedented speed and accuracy. The Visidot solution is being used in retail supply chains, automotive manufacturing and reusable assets pool management operations to provide per-asset visibility and to increase operational efficiencies. ImageID is a multinational company with R&D facilities in Israel and direct sales and partner networks in the US and Europe.
Contact:
Don Goncalves
Tiziani Whitmyre for Visidot™
Tel: 1-781-793-9380
Source: PR Web
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