M2M Radio Show: Omnitrol Releases the world's smallest RFID Appliance...
In tough economic times, streamlining processes and improving quality are ways companies can keep business afloat...
In September, 2007, I authored an article entitled, RFID Middleware is Extinct: The Intelligent Sensor Network is Born, where I made the controversial proclamation that "RFID Middleware is not a long-term solution."
We spoke with Raj Saksena, CEO of Omnitrol, about their recent recognition for innovation in plant automation.
Business model changes and increasing regulatory scrutiny are putting pressure on aerospace suppliers to improve and automate the processes by which they share part and subsystem lifecycle information with OEMs...
Security of a widely used radio frequency identification chip has been broken by European researchers. Separately, researchers at University of Texas - San Antonio teach about RFID in a $1.2 million manufacturing laboratory there...
The company is utilizing EPC Gen 2 tags to monitor the production of communications hardware for the aerospace and defense sectors...
Bloor Research has just released a technical report and market update covering RFID middleware. But what does this mean?
The UTSA Center for Advanced Manufacturing and Lean Systems (CAMLS), housed in the College of Engineering, recently partnered with the San Antonio Manufacturers Association to conduct a radio frequency identification (RFID) workshop...
A recent demonstration showed just how easy it is to use the Electronic Product Code Information Services standard to solve real supply chain business problems...
In my research on the RFID Middleware market, I came across a number of vendors that were new to me. In a series of articles, I will provide a short overview of these products. The first of these is on Omnitrol Networks...
RFID tags have been used to track PCBs through the manufacturing process for a while. But Omnitrol Networks and Texas Instruments have teamed up to field a new RFID tag that can use a board?s ground plane as its antenna. Application specialist Chris Cook of TI and David Orain, vice president of marketing for Omnitrol, explain how the tag?s UHF frequency allows more robust operation...
The global electronics industry took a hit in early 2008. A combination of U.S. financial woes (which ultimately impacted consumer and business spending worldwide), the normal post-Christmas seasonal consumer electronics slowdown, Lunar new year plant closings in Southeast Asia, and heavy February snows in China combined to create a sharp downturn throughout the food chain. World PCB production plunged in January and February (Chart 1) and semiconductor shipments followed suit (Chart 2). The chip shipment downturn (dollar value) was further amplified by severe DRAM price degradation...
Omnitrol Networks has inked a strategic deal with Croop-LaFrance, an IT solutions provider serving both the commercial and government sectors to delivering end-to-end, EPC-based traceability and tracking solutions for the aerospace and defense industries...
Our second day of coverage from the RFID Journal LIVE! 2008 event in Las Vegas includes a number of major contract announcements, in addition to more product and partnership news. See yesterday's Part 1 for more announcements...
Omnitrol Networks and Time Domain Corporation will jointly bring real-time precision location visibility and traceability to manufacturing processes in both the aerospace and defense industries...
Software profits soared 22 percent in the first quarter, as IBM ups its OEM software push.
Software continues to drive revenue for IBM, with the company's software group accounting for $4.8 billion for the first quarter of 2008, an increase of 14 percent over the same period last year...
The San Francisco Chamber of Commerce has opened nominations for its annual Excellence in Business awards - the Ebbies...
Omnitrol Networks and Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) announced an alliance delivering a radio frequency identification (RFID) product to PCB manufacturing applications. The product integrates Omnitrol Networks' Work-in-Process software and TI's Gen 2 RFID technology and provides electronic and contract manufacturers automated identifying and tracking of PCBs from the manufacturing floor to customer delivery. http://ti.com/pcbtracking...