Manufacturing Industry
Solutions combo puts new spin on RFID data.
Manufacturing Business Technology, May, 2007
By Staff The challenge for Salt Lake City-based Schiff Nutrition International was how to meet the Wal-Mart RFID mandate for tagging cases and pallets of vitamins, nutritional supplements, and bars without making extra work for employees who move cases to pallets in preparation for shrink-wrapping and shipment.
"We knew we had to spend the money, but we couldn't afford to fail. We did a lot of research with the IBM Global Business Services team and the IBM RFID test lab facility in Raleigh [North Carolina], and came up with a solution that worked well for our unique requirements," says Rod Farrimond, manager of business analysis. The novel solution: put the RFID reader next to the pallet spinner used in shrink-wrapping, take readings as the...
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