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A Speech of RFID Application for Jewellery Industry & Food
Safety
Feb 2009
Hong Kong RFID Ltd. (HK-RFID) has always been active in the
developing innovative RFID applications. In order to
promote the technological innovations and wide adoption
of RFID technologies, HKRFID
participated a speech in the Exchange @ Science Park for
Technology Community
in February 2009. The theme of the workshop is
Technology Collaboration on Emerging RFID Technologies
and Applications. HK-RFID presented on
RFID applications for Jewellery Industry and Food Safety.
One of the successful examples in the jewllery industry is
our RFID jewellery management system (JMS), Xapphire.
This RFID-enabled JMS has proven to be a powerful tool
for wholesaling, inventory checking and internal
logistics operations.
This system is especially useful the large scale jewellery
tradeshows. Normally, jewellery exhibitors would attend
exhibitions every month. They would bring 6000 to 10000
jewellery items to the shows. This induces many check in/out and
stock taking issues. Reading barcodes for stock taking
could be slow and this problem is even more visible
when stock taking process is frequent and real time
inventory information is required.
Xapphire has gained wide acceptance by local
jewellers and manufacturers. Also the jewellery tags
could store product information such as
prices, name of designer etc. Quotation time and
hence sales cycle could be shortened during the show.
On the other hand, RFID help tighten and control food
safety standards. By using RFID, people can keep track of
ingredient origins and ensure
freshness of frozen food.
RFID could be applied in Food Supply Chain Management.
They can have better control over the source, storage,
picking, packaging and logistics. With RFID tagged
pallets and carton boxes, the goods in each container
can be registered and the goods in transit between
suppliers and overseas destinations could be monitored
at all times.
With RFID, people can find the advantages of
traceability, the benefits are as follow:
- Quality control and product recall
- Control of logistical flows
- Commercial advantage and brand awareness
- Consumer awareness
- Accountability/reduced liability
- Compliance with legal and regulatory requirements
In retail applications, sushi bars can be an example.
With RFID tagged sushi dish, people can access product
information by using RFID reader such as the place of
origin, the source of supplier and manufacture date.
Also, they can have better quality control such as
better time management on food in order to improve
hygiene problem. It brings better inventory management
as well. For example, sales and net inventory per day
are known.
In coming years, after the successful sushi bar system
to ensure the freshness of sushi, HKRFID starts
developing active RFID system for cross border food
chain monitoring and control. Hong Kong RFID is seeking
business / technology partners for these potential RFID
applications.
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