For years, AIDC (Automatic Identification & Data Capture) technologies such as bar code, UID marking, active and passive RFID, GPS, sensors and SatComm have been helping organizations worldwide enhance their asset management capabilities. Total asset management is the ultimate goal of these organizations, which operate large, complex supply chains. (more…)
Every moment, countless people across the planet become end-users of Oil & Gas industry products. Each time you fly on an airplane, gas up your car or use the stove to prepare a pot of tea, some small part of the Oil & Gas supply chain has reached the end of its journey. End-users of products like jet fuel, gasoline and natural gas are the final link in a supply chain that must successfully pass through three distinct sectors: Upstream, Midstream and Downstream.
Upstream is a complex, extreme industrial environment where petroleum products are extracted from the earth. Drill pipe is a key Upstream asset that must be carefully managed and maintained. If drill pipe is lost in the supply chain, then drilling cannot occur. (more…)
It sure seems like a lot of the green rhetoric we hear these days is barking up the wrong tree. Nobody should be against ways to improve and preserve the environment, but so many of the proposals we hear about are based more on sounds bites than on substance. We don’t know the cost of oil in five years, we don’t know which renewable power generation will emerge, and we surely don’t know if or when man-made carbon emissions are going to make islands start disappearing.
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Did you know that RFID technology has been serving us longer than inventions such as the credit card, transistor radio or roller blades?
RFID is one of the most commonly used forms of Automatic Identification & Data Capture (AIDC) technology and forms the foundation of many asset management solutions, so let’s take a closer look at this particular technology. (more…)
