At RFID Journal LIVE! 2013, the materials manager at the company—which manufactures Carrier air-conditioners—described the process of identifying and implementing a radio frequency identification system at its Tennessee plant.
Read more of the RFID Journal article at http://www.rfidjournal.com/articles/view?10644
And drop us a line if we can help you solve a similar problem in your enterprise!
Cheers!
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Carrier Collierville, named by Industry Week as a top manufacturing plant in the nation (2011), has improved shipping productivity by 33%, and error reductions by 80 – 90% – due to the new auto ID based air-conditioner tracking system, and will keynote the upcoming RFID Journal Live 2013 event.
S3Edge is extremely pleased to announce that Carrier Corporation, a Fortune 50 company that’s part of United Technologies will be keynoting at the upcoming RFID Journal Live event to talk about the mission-critical solution they’ve deployed in production with our software and hardware from our partners (Impinj, Xploretech, SMARTRAC, Xerafy, and Motorola).
Below is the description of the keynote session on May 1st at RFID Journal Live 2013, the world’s largest RFID event in Orlando, Florida.
How Carrier Made Excellent Manufacturing Even Better With RFID
Carrier, a leader in high-technology heating, air-conditioning and refrigeration solutions, is part of UTC Climate, Controls & Security, a unit of United Technologies Corp. and a provider of technology to the aerospace and building systems industries worldwide. In January 2012, the company’s 900,000-square-foot manufacturing plant, located in Collierville, Tenn., was named one of IndustryWeek’s top-10 Best Plants in North America for 2011. In September 2011, the plant deployed an RFID system to create an automated shipping and component verification solution in a high-volume and high-velocity environment. Hear how the solution was designed and implemented, how it reduced truck-loading errors by more than 80 percent and how it boosted shipping productivity by 33 percent, resulting in hundreds of thousands of dollars in annual savings. In addition, learn what’s ahead for RFID at Carrier.
Speaker:
Balaji Suresh, Materials Manager, UTC Climate, Controls & Security, Carrier
If you are in Orlando this week, and would like to discuss this in more detail, drop me a note.
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S3Edge will be showcasing our auto-ID based applications for the transfusion medicine industry (Blood Centers and Hospital Blood Banks) called iTrace Tx with Helmer Scientific at the CBBS 2013 Annual Meeting. (in the Helmer booth, #101).
Of specific interest to Blood Center and Hospital folks is a ‘bolt-on’ managed remote inventory solution for the Helmer refrigerators that showcases how check-in / check-out of blood bags at hospitals can be automated, and remote inventory visibility achieved at Blood Centers.
Look forward to seeing you there if you are in the area.
Cheers!
The S3Edge team.
Source: RFID Journal Events [http://www.rfidjournalevents.com/live/index.php]
Extremely excited to announce that Balaji Suresh, our project sponsor at Carrier Corp (a UTC company) will be keynoting this years RFID Journal Live 2013 in Orlando on May 1st.
Mr. Suresh will be talking about the first ever 24×7 high-availability shipping and parts verification solution they’ve deployed at their Collierville plant in Memphis, TN on the S3Edge Spotlight platform (live in production for more than a year now), and I’d highly recommend this sessions for enterprises who have been sitting on the sidelines looking to educate themselves on the value and approach of deploying such a solution in a mission-critical environment.
Drop us a line if you’d like to learn more!
Cheers!
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The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 2,900 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 5 years to get that many views.
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Here’s wishing you and your families a wonderful holiday season and a successful 2013 ahead!
Happy Holidays!
From the entire S3Edge team.
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Great article by Claire from RFID Journal on the work we’ve been doing in the Transfusion Medicine supply chain. Read about it below, and check out www.s3edge.com/healthcare.php for more information.
An interesting snippet from the piece that captures the essence of the overall solution:
The consortium found that the use of RFID during the pilot resulted in a 33 percent reduction in reconciliation issues or misplaced products at the blood-donation points, as well as an 87 percent decrease in reconciliation issues or misplaced products when blood arrived at BloodCenter of Wisconsin’s headquarters. In addition, efficiency during final inventory check-in at the BloodCenter of Wisconsin increased by 63 percent. At the hospital, product visibility was improved and the correct blood product was delivered to patient bedsides without a single error, for a total of 144 transfusions.
Cheers and Happy Thanksgiving!
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I had an opportunity recently to talk to the awesome folks at Impinj and share some thoughts around the solutions we’ve been working on – check it out at http://www.impinj.com/blog/ and drop us a note if you have any thoughts / comments or questions,
Cheers!
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Tagged Anush Kumar, Carrier, impinj, RFID, RFID 2.0, S3Edge, Transfusion Medicine RFID
Another feather in S3Edge’s cap as we enable yet another mission-critical Auto-ID solution (in the Energy vertical) for compliance and tracking – in this case delivered and administered by our partner Access Solutions & Siemens (ive in operation since April of this year) for FME services at Florida Power & Light’s Turkey Point reactor.
Here’s a gist of what is being said about the new automation system for tool and personnel tracking (STARtrac) powered by S3Edge’s Spotlight software.
“Our system is the first of its kind in the nuclear industry,” explained Velma Brunt, one of two FME accountability technicians in the steam generator work area. “Basically how it works is we scan the individual’s badge and the tools they’re carrying into the work area. Once the person is ready to exit, we rescan their badge and tools. The system automatically alerts us of any materials left behind.”
Over 15,000 tools in the plant were Auto-ID enabled in advance of the EPU project. Many hand tools were equipped with radio frequency identification microchips for efficient scanning. The rest were laser-imprinted with bar codes or marked with identification numbers. Doug Sodaro, PTN’s safety manager, hopes the program will be a great tool in keeping the plant team in Prevention mode. “We use a lot of materials on a daily basis, which means we have to constantly mitigate FME risks. This tool is very useful in that it allows us to have Strong Ownership & Accountability over FME.”
To read the entire edition of Turrkey Point Nuclear News from April, check out the PDF from our partners website –> http://accesssolutions.site.aplus.net/userfiles/file/ptn_nuclear_news_SHORT.pdf
Cheers!
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Tagged Access Solutions, FME, FME RFID, Nuclear Power Plants RFID, S3Edge, S3Edge Spotlight, Tool tracking
