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Most Common Risks in Cold Chain Management
Temperature regulation is a critical facet of cold chain management. Risks abound no matter how seamless your logistics operation. Are you taking the right steps to mitigate risk in your cold supply chain? Approximately the world loses three tons of human food every...
The Necessity of RFID Asset Tracking for Manufacturing
From 2020 to 2025, the global asset tracking industry will experience a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 15%. After that, the sector will be worth $36.6 billion. One of the tracking methods that will contribute significantly to this growth is radio frequency...
5 Ingenious Uses of Passive RFID Tags
Passive RFID has been around for decades, but now maybe its shining, breakout moment. With its low cost and application flexibility, innovative companies around the world have found ways to put this technology to use. RFID innovation — of today and tomorrow — helps...
Avoid Supply Chain Disruptions Caused by Temperature, Impact, and More
While supply chain disruptions that cause damaged products are frustrating to customers, they can be highly disruptive and expensive for businesses. Further, substandard and spoiled goods often tarnish a brand's reputation and cause public relations nightmares. It...
The Top Uses Cases for RFID in Manufacturing
Manufacturers are always looking for innovative ways to optimize operations and reduce expenses. Radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology can optimize your supply chain by improving material flow and tracking damages. The more recent passive RFID tags serve as...
Preventing Common Types of Shipping Damage
Each year, the international maritime industry loses some $6 billion because of damage to cargo, ships, personnel, and incorrectly packed or documented cargo, according to estimates by the TT Club, a global insurance and risk-mitigation firm. In the intermodal...
SpotSee Featured on Supply Chain Now Podcast
Angela Kerr, our VP of Product Management joins Scott Luton and Greg White of Supply Chain Now to discuss leveraging technology to protect your shipments during transit. Angela explains how SpotSee helps customers look at their supply chain and identify ways that they...
What Is an Accelerometer?
Accelerometers are small axis-based devices that can be affixed to items and indicate orientation. In a smart phone, it’s the accelerometer that auto-rotates the screen and tells your stargazing app where it’s pointing in the sky. In a laptop, the accelerometer senses...
Damage in your supply chain? Using RFID to Deter Detect and Diagnose
HOME BLOG POSTS REDUCE WASTE IN YOUR SUPPLY CHAIN Did you know utilizing indicators allows a company greater visibility into their supply chain and reduce damage by up to 40-60%? No one can hide from supply chain damage, but there are solutions that can dramatically...
RFID Shipping Solutions Take Hold at Top Businesses
FedEx says the future of the supply chain includes RFID shipping solutions. CIO Rob Carter made his pronouncement in 2019, touting the RFID tags that feed information — such as temperature, impact, and vibration — into blockchain to create a secure, traceable...
Eye in the Sky: Drones and Passive RFID to Manage Assets
Drones sporting RFID readers are taking flight inside large warehouses, distribution centers, fulfillment centers, big box stores, and air cargo facilities, as well as above freight yards. They started out reading active RFID, but now have embraced passive RFID tags...
RFID Tracking Labels are the Future of Packaging
The future of packaging involves RFID tracking stickers. You’ve probably heard that before, but today’s passive RFID tags have won the respect of business leaders who are doing more than just slapping a tag on a crate and calling it done. Passive RFID tags are being...
Impact Recorders for Transformers Empower Accountability, Visibility, and Optimization
The seven tornados that ripped through Chattanooga, TN, on Easter weekend (2020) cost the local electric utility, EPB, an estimated $28 million. EPB has had to replace 709 of its transformers in the hardest hit areas, along 126 miles of replacement wire. That means a...
RFID’s Essential Role in Aerospace Supply Chains
Using RFID tags – Radio Frequency Identification – is helping Boeing and Airbus reduce their parts inventory and speed aircraft repairs. These aerospace giants have each used RFID for years, gradually expanding its use throughout their logistics, maintenance and...
Smart Technologies – Like RFID Labels – Transform Supply Chain in 2020
Digital transformation is one of 2020’s top trends — and challenges — for industrial supply chains, as organizations scramble to become smarter, more automated, and more efficient. When it comes to goods, this means using smart technologies to streamline logistics,...
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RFID Journal featuring ShockWatch RFID by Spotsee
HOME BLOG POSTS REDUCE WASTE IN YOUR SUPPLY CHAIN RFID Journal has launched a series of webinars to highlight the Best New Product finalists of 2020. SpotSee has been chosen as a Best New Product Finalist of 2020 for our ShockWatch RFID. ShockWatch RFID combines the...
SpotSee Supply Chain Monitoring: Save Money, Reduce Damage (Video)
You have a great product that customers need. You’ve designed your supply chain and accounted for everything from manufacturing your items to transporting them to the end customer. But inventory can get damaged during shipping. SpotSee’s logistics monitoring keeps an...
Auto Manufacturers Discover the Advantages of RFID Inventory Management
One of the biggest challenges in automotive manufacturing is precisely managing the thousands of parts that go into creating an automobile. Car manufacturing involves a good amount of complexity as manufacturers produce different models and work with a wide variety of...
Need for Pharma Cold Chain Logistics Monitoring Increases
By 2023, temperature-controlled pharmaceuticals are expected to grow 59 percent from 2017 levels, according to the 2019 Biopharma Cold Chain Sourcebook. Pharmaceutical shippers and carriers, therefore, are finding temperature monitoring devices vital throughout cold...
SpotSee Provides Self- Applied Forehead Thermometers to Help Prevent the Spread of COVID-19
As a global leader in supply chain temperature indicators used to monitor test specimens in the SARS and H1N1 virus outbreaks, we provide hands-off forehead thermometers for essential businesses and companies to help ensure workplaces remain fever and virus free...
