Manufacturing Industry

Inevitable surge in RFID proves out in EPC memberships.(RFID's Tipping Point)

Manufacturing Business Technology, January, 2005

The momentum behind RFID is growing strongly, insists Chris Adcock, president, EPCglobal worldwide, who spoke recently with Manufacturing Business Technology. Adcock, who took over last September for Interim President Mike Meranda (Meranda remains head of EPCglobal U.S.), reports that membership of the global supply chain RFID standards body doubled in the three months ending Nov. 30.

The sudden surge wasn't due to a host of vendors signing up. Instead, the increase was almost evenly split between user organizations and technology vendors.

"Companies are realizing they have to learn how RFID technology can transform their business processes, and are participating in EPCglobal to achieve that," maintains Adcock.

On this point, Adcock...

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