The efficiency of manufacturing operations is often seriously affected by significant amounts of time spent searching for misplaced assets. Real-time location systems (RTLS) provide a promising approach for reducing wasted time. Given the difference in information precision and system costs, the...

Purpose – This paper aims to study the main requirements of traceability and examine how the technology of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology can address these requirements. It further seeks to outline both an information data model and a system architecture that will make...

Automated Identification (Auto ID) applications can provide corporate information systems with the identity of each physical item in the supply chain in an automated and timely manner. The real time availability of item identity allows other information, related to the item, to be drawn on in...