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Keep tabs with high tech tags; Radio frequency technology put to use for inventory management.(Technology)
Crain's Cleveland Business, February, 2004 by Jackson, Tom
Byline: TOM JACKSON It's almost routine in today's business environment to claim that a technology will "transform'' business, but backers of radio frequency identification tags say their device is the real thing. Known as RFID tags, the technology transforms once-shy key chains or shipping containers into small radio stations that broadcast information about themselves.
Promoters claim the tags offer a better way to manage and track inventory. "Any object in the world can tell you its name and tell you where it is,'' said Robert Steinberg, president of Productivity by RFID, a six-employee Shaker Heights consulting company founded last September that helps businesses figure out how to adapt the technology. "Now you can take inventory continuously.'' An...
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