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Golden State Medical Supply selects IBM technology to comply with California prescription drug pedigree regulations
IBM and contract manufacturer Golden State Medical Supply (GSMS) today announced GSMS will be ready to comply with California's landmark prescription drug pedigree regulations this year. GSMS is using IBM technology to manage serialized drug pedigree information and offer new services to their customers.
15 Apr 2008
Airbus selects IBM and OATSystems for world’s largest RFID-enabled manufacturing initiative
Airbus selects IBM and OATSystems to provide a software solution for a multi-million dollar, multi-year RFID project that will streamline Airbus’s supply chain and manufacturing operations and significantly reduce aircraft production and maintenance costs. The project is the manufacturing industry’s single largest RFID software transaction to date.
10 Apr 2008
IBM offers new capabilities for cross-enterprise sensor solutions
IBM announced the release of WebSphere Premises Server version 6.1, a software product that enables business process transformation by responding to the insights provided by sensor data. The product will enable companies to gather, analyze, and act upon data from passive and active Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags and other sensors.
07 Apr 2008
IBM's WebSphere RFID Information Center is the first to meet both EPCIS and Drug Pedigree messaging standards
IBM announced that its WebSphere RFID Information Center software's ePedigree feature has been certified and found to be fully compliant with GS1 EPCglobal's Drug Pedigree Messaging Standard (known as the DPMS or Document model).
22 Jan 2008
IBM teams with METRO Group to improve customer service and efficiency with RFID
IBM announced it has worked with METRO Group to implement RFID technology to improve availability of products in its stores, enhance consumers' shopping experience, and boost supply chain performance. The companies are successfully using RFID to track shipments from suppliers to warehouses, distribution centers and stores.
10 Jan 2008
IBM and TAGSYS team on serialization pilot kit for pharmaceutical manufacturers
NACDS/HDMA RFID/Track & Trace Health Care Industry Adoption Summit — IBM and TAGSYS today unveiled an integrated offering to help pharmaceutical manufacturers rapidly pilot and use RFID technologies for item level serialization in their packaging operations.
12 Nov 2007
Schiphol Group ramps up baggage handling with IBM and Vanderlande
IBM and Vanderlande Industries have signed a contract with Amsterdam Airport Schiphol to significantly increase the baggage capacity for the new baggage hall at the airport.
04 Oct 2007
IBM advances use of open standards in RFID solutions
Today at EPC Connection, IBM announced two significant developments in its effort to advance the use of open standards in radio frequency identification (RFID) solutions and help companies make better use of data that can enable new business insights and drive business process transformation.
02 Oct 2007
IBM Introduces ePedigree System to Combat Drug Counterfeiting and Help Clients Comply With Regulations
IBM announced the availability of an offering that will allow pharmaceutical companies to create an electronic certificate of authenticity for every drug that passes through the supply chain. The offering allows all participants in the drug supply chain secure and on demand access to historical data on individual bottles or packages of medicine.
09 Aug 2007
IBM introduces mid-volume thermal and RFID printing solution
IBM announced the InfoPrint® 6700 M40, a member of the InfoPrint 6700 family of thermal/RFID printers. This mid-volume offering provides a robust label printing solution that optimizes supply chain operations and asset management.
30 Apr 2007
IBM launches RFID technology to extract business insight and drive value from mounting RFID data
Today, at the RFID World Conference, IBM will unveil Radio Frequency Identification software that unlocks business insight from the information explosion created by RFID tags embedded throughout the supply chain, empowering companies to identify entirely new business opportunities.
27 Mar 2007
IBM Wins First of a Kind RFID Project for SMB, Schiff Nutrition
ARMONK, NY—(MARKET WIRE)—Feb 23, 2007 — Schiff Nutrition International (NYSE:WNI - News), a U.S.-based manufacturer of vitamins and nutritional supplements, and IBM (NYSE:IBM - News) today announced a new Radio Frequency Identification pilot to better anticipate current and future customer needs and improve efficiency.
23 Feb 2007
Honda Italia and IBM revolutionize motorbike production with RFID
Honda Italia Industriale announced today that it has signed a contract with IBM to implement RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology and infrastructure to transform and innovate the production processes at its plant located in Atessa, Italy.
10 Jan 2007
IBM Helps Pliant Design and Implement RFID System to Track Shipments and Detect Tampering
Pliant Corporation and IBM announced that Pliant has implemented an RFID platform pilot program, designed by IBM consultants, to track shipments between the two technical centers and customer sites and detect tampering in its stretch-wrapping products.
08 Jan 2007
IBM enables drug authentication, E-Customs with release of new RFID technology
IBM today announced new technology to give clients the unprecedented ability to securely share and analyze accurate and real-time data generated by sensors like Radio Frequency ID tags, enabling significant consumer and business applications like drug authentication and e-customs for the first time.
15 Dec 2006
M2M Magazine Publishes M2M 100 in 2007 Sourcebook
M2M magazine has released its annual directory of the top technology and service providers in the machine-to-machine technology arena. The M2M 100 is the industry’s definitive resource of the leaders in the machine-to-machine technology marketplace.
06 Dec 2006
IBM licenses clipped tag RFID technology to Marnlen RFID
IBM announced it will license its acclaimed Clipped Tag technology to Marnlen RFiD, who will begin production of the tags immediately. The Clipped Tag allows consumers to tear off most of an RFID tag's antenna, reducing read range and ensuring consumer privacy while maintaining technology benefits.
08 Nov 2006
IBM's RFID clipped tag named in Wall Street Journal Innovation Awards
IBM's Clipped Tag technology for RFID was hailed in the Wall Street Journal Innovation Awards, announced today. Radio frequency identification allows companies in the pharmaceutical, manufacturing, retail and government industries to cut costs associated with increasingly complicated supply chains.
11 Sep 2006
IBM taps RFID for pharma industry
Nearly 8 percent of the world's prescriptions are counterfeit, not a pleasant prospect for the patients receiving the medicine. To make it harder for counterfeit drugs to get to market, IBM has unveiled a radio frequency identification (RFID) system for tracking and tracing of pharmaceuticals.
08 Aug 2006
TAGSYS Embeds IBM’s Websphere RFID Device Infrastructure Into Entire Portfolio Of Item-Level Readers
TAGSYS, the global leader in item-level RFID infrastructure, announced that it has embedded IBM’s WebSphere RFID Device Infrastructure (WRDI) into TAGSYS’ complete line of high-frequency (HF) item-level readers.
07 Aug 2006
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