The
MBA program in Supply Chain Management
at NC State University is unique among business
schools. With the support of the Supply Chain
Resource Consortium, an industry/university
partnership, the program brings the industry into
the classroom, involving students, faculty and supply
chain professionals in finding solutions to the
real industry problems. This project-based approach
to education reflects the new model for business
schools described by Peter Drucker.
For
more information...
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Peter
Drucker...
"Management is a practice, like medicine;
and the model should have been the medical school,
where the bulk of the teaching, especially the most
important teaching of the M.D. in his or her residency,
is performed by practitioners. Unlike medicine,
where you can bring sick patients into the classroom,
business education does not allow you to bring an
organization into the classroom. You can, however,
bring experience in through your faculty and students.
Business educators should be out as practitioners
where the problems and results are."
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1/23/03
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The
Future of RFID’s
by
Kelly Wright, SCRC
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When
will RFID be as ubiquitous as bar codes?
Today – 6.51%
Next year – 10.65%
Two years – 17.16%
Five years – 42.01%
Ten years – 13.61%
Longer – 10.06%
Source: The Association for Automatic
Identification and Data Capture Technologies, May
‘02
Radio Frequency IDentification tags (RFID’s)
are circuits which contain memory to store data
such as serial numbers and delivery history. Wireless
radio communications perform the writing and reading
function to transmit data to information repositories.
Unlike barcodes or UPC symbols, RFID’s do not
require a direct line of site in order to collect
information.
A recent article from our news feed describes RFID
technology in more detail, RFID’s
Day is Coming.
Current applications:
- Transportation and logistics
- Manufacturing and processing
- Security
Promising future applications:
- Animal tagging
- Waste management
- Time and attendance
- Postal tracking
- Airline baggage reconciliation
- Road toll management
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Facts
& Figures
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| History |
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| Inception
of RFID technology |
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1980 |
| Year
by which the European Central Bank is working
to embed RFID tags in the fibers of all Euro
bank notes |
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2005 |
| Currently
cornering the market on RFID tag manufacturing |
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Texas
Instruments |
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| Costs |
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| Current
average price per passive tag (read-only) |
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40¢ |
| Current
average price per active tag (readable and
writeable, requires a power source) |
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$5
- $10 |
| Predicted
price per tag by 2004 |
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1¢ |
| Average
cost of a tag reader/antennae |
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$3,500 |
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| Measurements |
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| Maximum
memory storage per tag |
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1
MB |
| Average
battery life for active tags |
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3-5
years |
| Frequency
ranges… price of system increases as
range increases |
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100
KHz to 5.8 GHz |
| Speed
at which tags can be moving and still be read
accurately |
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150
mph |
| Distance
from which tags can be read |
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1,000
feet |
| Size
of smallest RFID manufactured to date |
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550
microns |
| Response
time for tag to be read |
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100
milliseconds |
| Temperature
tags can withstand |
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-50ºC
to +70ºC |
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| Miscellaneous
statistics |
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| Amount
per incident that FedEx saves by using RFID
technology to facilitate keyless vehicle operation,
eliminating the need for re-keying due to
lost keys. |
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$200 |
| Time
between prisoner tracking broadcasts via RFID
tags at a prison in California |
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2
seconds |
| Number
of RFID tags Gilette purchased in November
2002 |
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500,000,000 |
| Number
of U.S. amusements parks using RFID technology
for child/group tracking as of November ‘02 |
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4 |
| Amount
of containers coming into the US currently
being manually inspected |
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2% |
| Portion
of poll respondents who believe RFID’s
will be most widely used in supply chain applications
(vs. manufacturing, parcel distribution, access
control, etc) |
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45.68% |
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| The
home for information about radio frequency
technologies |
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www.rfid.org |
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