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Fast Market Research recommends "The Definitive Guide to RFID: Evaluation of Companies, Business Case Assessment, Case Studies, and Application Analysis" from MindCommerce, now available
RFID is destined to be a disruptive technology that will have a slow start-up ramp, followed by rapid clock speed acceptance and a relentless series of documented improvement stories. It will be a technology that will find its way into a rash of applications, industries, and individual businesses, undoubtedly impacting our professional and personal lives.
The real benefit will come when RFID is integrated as part of a drive for supply chain optimization, full network connectivity, and ERP-to-ERP communication that communicates information to business partners such as supply amount, location, and how it can be brought to the point of need, in quantities that match the actual demand. Additional value will be realized when it also helps in the data analysis
that leads to generating new revenues. In short, the use of RFID technology is expected to grow significantly in the next five years and it is predicted that someday RFID tags will be as pervasive as bar codes.
This report first provides a brief introduction to RFID. The major focus of the report is on the market, manufacturers, products, and the companies around the world developing and deploying RFID systems and applications. It is must reading for anyone interested in launching or expanding RFID operations.
Target Audience:
* RFID hardware, software, and solution vendors and related professional services companies
* Managed services providers, outsourced RFID solutions and application providers, and RFID service bureau operators
* Personnel responsible for automating Supply Chain Management (SCM), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and other business processes
* Manufacturers and personnel responsible for management of inventory and materials, timing and control of critical resources, improve Warehouse Management Systems (WMS), and other production line automation and industrial processes
* Healthcare management personnel responsible for tracking patients, staff personnel, equipment, inventory, and other critical resources
* Retailers and personnel responsible for merchandise inventory and ordering processes, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Merchandise tracking and fraud prevention
* Providers of value-added applications and services such as metering, telemetry, telematics, and sensor applications, inventory control and tracking such as merchandise control, asset tracking and recovery such as computing equipment monitoring, tracking parts moving through a manufacturing process, tracking goods in a supply chain, and payment systems
* Providers of RFID middleware such as the VeriSign or Oracle
* Companies interested in optimizing their RFID business process strategies
Report Table of Contents:
Introduction - 5
Section-I: RFID Overview - 8
Readers - 8
Passive RFID Tags - 8
SAW RFID Tags - 9
Semi Passive RFID Tags - 9
Active RFID Tags - 10
Frequencies - 11
Read/Write Operations - 12
Analysis of Passive vs. Active RFID Systems - 13
Advantages of Passive RFID - 13
Disadvantages of Passive RFID - 15
Advantages of Active RFID - 16
Disadvantages of Active RFID - 17
Section-II: RFID Companies Worldwide - 19
RFID Companies in Europe - 19
RFID Companies in Asia/Asia Pacific - 36
RFID Companies in the United States of America - 49
Section - III: RFID Case Studies - 63
U.S. Naval Air Systems Command - 63
United States Navy Regional Supply Office - 66
St. Olavs Hospital, Norway - 68
Heinz Project - US - 71
Mobile Management & Maintenance in Frankfurt - 74
Dat Autohus Car Company Project - 74
Personnel Tracking System in Switzerland - 76
E-Ticketing System - 78
Component Monitoring and Tracking Project - 79
Telecom Product Tracking System - 80
Section-IV - Emerging RFID Applications - 83
Comparison of Various Access Control Methods - 84
Prevalent Application Types - 85
Item Tracking and Tracing - 86
Inventory Monitoring and Control - 86
Asset Monitoring and Management - 87
Emerging Application Types - 87
Anti-Counterfeit - 87
Member Applications - 88
Drug Anti-Counterfeit - 89
Benefits - 90
RFID on Humans - 90
RFID in Super markets: Smart Shelf - 92
Strategic Dimensions of Commercial Mandates - 95
Government Mandates and Strategies - 97
Section-V: Business Cases for RFID - 100
The two types of ROI - 100
Quantifying Return on Investment with Financials - 101
Cost of Investment - 101
Breakdown of Cost of Installing RFID System (ROI Quantification) 102
Savings and Reduced Costs of Labor - 102
Payback Period - 102
Return on Assets - 103
Ways to a faster success on Returns - 104
The Ultimate Goal for the Future - 105
Section-VI: Conclusion - 108
List of Tables and Figures
Comparison of Various Access Control Methods - 84
Applications and Volume Projections - 97
Breakdown of Cost of Installing RFID System (ROI Quantification) - 102
Payback Period vs. Pallets per Month Graph - 103
Increasing Shareholder Value - 105
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