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"RFID in action" database focuses on food sector
By Ahmed ElAmin
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06/09/2005 - As many food company executives are still figuring out how to implement radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, a data collector has put 500 cases studies online to help them learn from the best -- and the worse -- in the industry.
The demand for food traceablity from farm to fork is being driven down to the plant level, increasing the speed at which companies are implementing radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, says IDTechEx.
Recent devastating outbreaks such as foot and mouth disease, mad cow disease and avian flu plus contamination recalls, bioterrorism and mandates from customers are driving strict new legislation on food traceability in the US and the EU.
In addition, consumers are also demanding more information about where the food they consume originates. Food processors are also sharpening their ability to compete in world markets by using the relatively new technology to automate, streamline and become more efficient.
New mandates such as McDonald's, the world's largest buyer of processed meat, demanding “full traceability” from all suppliers are driving a renewed interest in RFID among processors.
Wal-Mart, Albertson's, Best Buy, Target and other supermarkets have mandated RFID on all incoming pallets and cases, as have the US military and European retailers such as Tesco, Carrefour and Metro.
The food industry is on the move in a major way, IDTechEx stated yesterday. The company believes the retailer mandates is a prelude to tagging everything.
The market is also being driven by new European Union legislation in 2005 demanding full traceability for cattle and the US Homeland Security legislation on tracking. China and Japan are also in the lead in adopting the technology.
IDTechEx has created an online database of case studies in RFID implementation throughout a wide variety of industries. The database now contains 1,600 cases of RFID in action, of which 500 focus on food and livestock tagging.
"The new technologies of tracking, tracing and identifying are catching on much faster than is commonly realised," the company stated yesterday in a press release.
IDTechEx also stated: "Although tens of millions of RFID tags have been applied to livestock and food and millions of biometric procedures have been carried out, there is no analysis of the global situation and the lessons of success and failure."
IDTechEx believes that by 2015 about 900 billion food items could be RFID tagged, and 824 million livestock will have more sophisticated, more expensive tags on or in them.
RFID has long been touted as the future of logistics for all companies by allowing retailers and suppliers to track goods throughout the supply chain. Radio frequency identification (RFID) is a wireless form of automated identification technology. Analysts believe RFID will become critical to most supply chains within the next ten to 20 years, with the market projected to be worth $1bn by 2006.
However many companies are only now realising that data management is key to the technology rather than the tags and readers, previously regarded as the "business end" of RFID.
By Ahmed ElAmin
Get the latest Market Reports on
IDTechEx
Wal-Mart
RFID
All news for September 2005
06/09/2005 - As many food company executives are still figuring out how to implement radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, a data collector has put 500 cases studies online to help them learn from the best -- and the worse -- in the industry.
The demand for food traceablity from farm to fork is being driven down to the plant level, increasing the speed at which companies are implementing radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, says IDTechEx.
Recent devastating outbreaks such as foot and mouth disease, mad cow disease and avian flu plus contamination recalls, bioterrorism and mandates from customers are driving strict new legislation on food traceability in the US and the EU.
In addition, consumers are also demanding more information about where the food they consume originates. Food processors are also sharpening their ability to compete in world markets by using the relatively new technology to automate, streamline and become more efficient.
New mandates such as McDonald's, the world's largest buyer of processed meat, demanding “full traceability” from all suppliers are driving a renewed interest in RFID among processors.
Wal-Mart, Albertson's, Best Buy, Target and other supermarkets have mandated RFID on all incoming pallets and cases, as have the US military and European retailers such as Tesco, Carrefour and Metro.
The food industry is on the move in a major way, IDTechEx stated yesterday. The company believes the retailer mandates is a prelude to tagging everything.
The market is also being driven by new European Union legislation in 2005 demanding full traceability for cattle and the US Homeland Security legislation on tracking. China and Japan are also in the lead in adopting the technology.
IDTechEx has created an online database of case studies in RFID implementation throughout a wide variety of industries. The database now contains 1,600 cases of RFID in action, of which 500 focus on food and livestock tagging.
"The new technologies of tracking, tracing and identifying are catching on much faster than is commonly realised," the company stated yesterday in a press release.
IDTechEx also stated: "Although tens of millions of RFID tags have been applied to livestock and food and millions of biometric procedures have been carried out, there is no analysis of the global situation and the lessons of success and failure."
IDTechEx believes that by 2015 about 900 billion food items could be RFID tagged, and 824 million livestock will have more sophisticated, more expensive tags on or in them.
RFID has long been touted as the future of logistics for all companies by allowing retailers and suppliers to track goods throughout the supply chain. Radio frequency identification (RFID) is a wireless form of automated identification technology. Analysts believe RFID will become critical to most supply chains within the next ten to 20 years, with the market projected to be worth $1bn by 2006.
However many companies are only now realising that data management is key to the technology rather than the tags and readers, previously regarded as the "business end" of RFID.
