WAM Technologies LLC, along with its affiliate Mark-it Services (MIS), have launched a means of monitoring the status of perishable cargoes.

IntelliCorp Inc., a vendor of smart application-lifecycle management (ALM) software for SAP applications, has released version 3.2 of LiveCompare.

The Wireless Group of Anaren Inc. has launched a Cellular Machines product line.

For the past five years, the Pyhäsalmi mine in central Finland has been using passive high-frequency RFID tags to record when workers enter or leave a mine shaft. Since that time, says Kimmo Luukkonen, the mine's managing director, the technology has improved management's visibility into who is underground and when, and hence has increased its safety program's efficiency and accuracy. The company plans to expand that RFID solution to monitor who carries explosive detonators into the mine.

Lean is a never-ending process, says Mike Buseman, chief global logistics and operations officer with Avnet Inc. He explains how the company operates in a state of continuous improvement.

Daikin Reefer, a global supplier of container-refrigeration machinery, has launched its new Active CA device, a unit that creates a controlled atmosphere inside refrigerated containers transporting perishable goods.