RE: RFID -- MAPICS-L

Pete

RFID is the new buzz word out in the market today.  Wallmart is pushing this
hard for all of their top suppliers to be compliant by 2006. The dream is to
have all of the products in stores be labeled and when you walk thru the
readers, all of your products will be scanned and eliminate long checkout
lines. 

How RFID tags work and what effect it has on Mapics is simple.  RFID tags
can be read only, read write, or variations of these.  What information you
can place on the tag will be determined on the size of the memory and the
device you use to read the tag.  This will determine how Mapics will view
the data coming in.  

Think of it as if you were typing in some information to a typical screen of
Mapics as to how the data will interact with your Mapics.  There are many
ways you can take the data and massage that into Mapics, but that can be
discussed more offline.  

One thing to keep in mind is that RFID tags are not cheap right now and they
can have some limitations to heating, so the environment can play a factor
in the RFID tag and may not be appropriate until after the heat treating
process.  Feel free to contact me offline if you would like some additional
information.

Sincerely
 
Andy Jacobs
President
Integrated Barcoding Systems
1.517.266.7771 Ext.101
1.517.266.7772 Fax

-----Original Message-----
From: Pete Olshavsky [mailto:polshavsky@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 8:10 AM
To: MAPICS ERP System Discussion
Subject: Re: RFID

Jim, Part of the problem is they sent some items to be plated with out heat
treat 1st and then shipped the finished product. What they were thinking and
again I just heard about this late yesterday. So I believe they want to see
if these tags can help prevent operations from being skipped.  This is about
all I know at this point in time. 
Pete

Jim Black <jrblack@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Pete:

You say this is to help control items that go outside for processing. What
is the problem they are experiencing and how do you see this technology
addressing it?

Jim


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pete Olshavsky" 

To: 
Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 7:54 AM
Subject: RFID


> Good Morning Group, Just doing some preliminary checking.
> But one of my accts is looking into using Radio Frequency Identification
tags. ((RFID).
> Does anyone have any experience with these? Have you used/interfaced these
with Mapics in any way?
> What they are thinking. And again very very early stage. Is to help
control items that go to outside vendors for heat treat and plating.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Pete Olshavsky
>
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