Ship2Save today appear that Normerica Inc., one of the better clandestine characterization cat clutter and pet articles companies in North America, has implemented a Ship2Save RFID adaptable barrow arrangement at its accomplishment plants in Brantford, Ontario and Lethbridge, Alberta. The arrangement provides EPC acquiescence for commodity advised for Wal-Mart Canada, whose RFID affairs began in the summer 2008. The band-aid consists of one or several carts able with Impinj Speedway® RFID readers, area anniversary barrow serves as an encoding base to accommodated Normerica Inc.’s RFID compliancy requirements.
“We accepted the coercion of the bearings and took into anniversary Normerica Inc.’s adage of capability and efficiency. Our aggregation bound responded by devising adaptable RFID allotment stations application carts that can be wheeled to the appointed conveyors,” explains Amninder Singh, Vice President, Products & Services at Ship2Save. “In accession to extenuative money on abounding readers, Normerica Inc. is decidedly benefiting from above the RFID tagging action and leveraging Krupack’s HIDE-Pack™ technology enabled corrugate boxes”, adds Singh.
Contrary to a lot of RFID compliancy solutions, the Normerica Inc. bureaucracy does not crave an RFID printer and the consecutive “slapping on” of RFID tags. The corrugated boxes supplied by Krupack accommodate a acquiescent EPC Gen 2 RFID tag amid aural the box folds during the accomplishment process. Each tag is again encoded as the box that contains it passes through the allotment process.
Rob Latter, Group Vice President of Krupack, a analysis of Kruger, is committed to the success of the new RFID technology. He says that “this is one of the greatest innovations to crop abode in the corrugated industry in the accomplished ten years. The HIDE-Pack™ technology is absolutely what the exchange is analytic for. It is simple, amount able and reliable and we are actual appreciative to be able to action it to our barter today.”
Each adaptable barrow consists of a PC, an Impinj Speedway® RFID reader, an adjustable antenna, a handheld barcode scanner, and a LCD screen. These apparatus ensure able encoding and verification. Validation of the encoding action occurs through beheld and aural alerts while an ceaseless ability accumulation allows affective the base amid agent curve with minimum downtime.
“Our actual affair was to appropriately configure the RFID tags on the commodity we forward to Wal-Mart after abolition accustomed operations. We were admiring at the avant-garde band-aid that Ship2Save and Krupack delivered in such a appropriate fashion”, exclaims Simon Than, IT Director at Normerica Inc.
RFID has become added accustomed in retail today with RFID accumulation alternation programs in Sam’s Club, Wal-Mart, and Wal-Mart Canada. While the allowances of implementing RFID in a accumulation alternation access with the admeasurement of RFID assimilation aural that action chain, abounding suppliers of such retailers attention the technology alone as a amount of accomplishing business.
According to a May 2007 Canadian Grocery Industry RFID Pilot address able by the Canadian RFID Centre and IBM, anchored RFID tags in corrugate “would artlessly crave encoding and would abolish the charge for inline tagging or book and administer applicators and abate the costs that a lot of manufacturers are arresting today”. The affability of the Ship2Save adaptable barrow band-aid resides in abbreviation manufacturers’ basic investment and aswell opens the aperture to added opportunities added alternating in their manufacturing/packaging processes.
About Krupack
Krupack Packaging specializes in the architecture and accomplish of top above and innovative, 100% recyclable packaging products. Its plants are amid in LaSalle (Quebec) and Brampton (Ontario). Its ancestor company, Kruger Inc., was founded in 1904 and is a above ambassador of advertisement papers, tissue, barge and added copse products, corrugated cartons, blooming and renewable energy, cardboard and axle recyclers and wines and spirits. The Company is aswell a baton in cardboard and paperboard recycling in North America. Kruger operates accessories in Quebec, Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, Newfoundland and Labrador, in the United States and the United Kingdom and has 9,000 employees.
About Ship2Save
Ship2Save is one of the industry leaders in amount able RFID Solutions and is a founding affiliate of the Canadian Microsoft RFID Council, a affiliate of the Microsoft Global RFID Council, an EPC Global Canada Strategic Council Member, a CompTIA RFID+™ Cornerstone Committee Member, and a affiliate of Texas Instruments Tag-It Team. Ship2Save's different artefact lines, adjustable and accomplished software, business development models, and characteristic deployment services, action barter amount able and top above solutions for their RFID needs. To apprentice more, appointment www.ship2save.com.
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Sonia Bounardjian
Ship2Save
1-866-222-0001 ext.2262
press@ship2save.com
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