The company developed the system using RFID technology provided by Barcoding Inc. Each RFID-enabled basket comes with an ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) EPCGen 2passive tag attached to it, encoded with a unique ID number. Users then have the choice of using their existing RFID reader infrastructure, which they may already have in place, or purchasing readers and software to manage read data from Barcoding Inc.
Marlin Steel has provided the baskets to containerize and protect components within industrial or manufacturing sites for many years, says Drew Greenblatt, the company's president. However, he adds, customers reported that it was often challenging to locate a specific basket of components, or to track that basket's arrival at an assembly workstation.
