CHICAGO BEARS & RFID
MAY 2011
American RFID Solutions demonstrates Asset Management at the home of the Chicago Bears. A tour of the locker room and other fun activities made for a great day.
AMERICAN RFID SOLUTIONS & TECH WEIGH PARTNERSHIP
APRIL 2011
American RFID Solutions teams up with Tech Weigh to provide an integrated capacity scale (100 tons) for crane man moves to automatically track pick and place of hard to move inventory items. The new solution offers many benefits to clients who use heavy duty cranes. For example, throughput of this bottleneck improves and shrinkage due to losses and human error are eliminated. Real world benefits from early adopters show the combination of RFID and automated scales with remote dashboards offer significant ROI.
HEALTHCARE & BED PM
APRIL 2011
American RFID Solutions helps improve patient care for a leading hospital group by automating preventative maintenance to ensure beds operate properly and utilization is maximized. The solution integrates with a cloud based work order tool to allow PM technicians to handle a large fleet of beds requiring many complicated procedures.
STEEL MILL INVENTORY
MARCH 2011
American RFID Solutions supplies a turnkey solution to permit the world’s largest steel producer to track coils in shipping bays that are over ¼ of a mile long. The system integrates with legacy systems to provide a seamless integration and productive coexistence of state of the art with a decades old legacy system.
AEROSPACE KanBan & RFID
FEBRUARY 2011
American RFID Solutions delivers RFID automation to allow a second tier Aerospace supplier to soar with growth by facilitating coordinated operations between aerospace clusters in Kansas, USA and Chihuahua, Mexico. The system empowers stakeholders with mobile dashboards via smartphones so they receive real time situational awareness on work cell inventory, labor distribution around the facility and bottlenecks determined by business rules using empirical data provided by RFID.
MANUFACTURING AUTOMATION
JANUARY 2011
American RFID Solutions delivers RFID automation to a Fortune 500 company to manage a multi-building manufacturing campus with build to order, just in time inventory processes. Event notification and the business rules engine built into ARS' TrackStar software provide best of breed quality control while increasing direct labor efficiency.
RETAIL SECTOR BREAKTHROUGH
NOVEMBER 2010
American RFID Solutions offers a new innovative solution using low cost RFID sensors to track retail operations via its 3D geodetic map of real time locations of employees, sales assist vendors and VIP customers. The new technology represents a new paradigm to allow retailers to gain access to priceless business insights. Our RFID/RTLS systems and empirical data provide opportunities for improved data analysis, sales assistance and brand mindshare.
ARS GROWS INTO NEW HEADQUARTERS
SEPTEMBER 2010
American RFID Solutions moves to larger facilities which expand its dock capabilities and include a new high lift warehouse for better order fulfillment.
BP DEEPWATER HORIZON MAN DOWN MODULE
AUGUST 2010
American RFID Solutions creates a breakthrough solution to provide real time monitoring of oil rig workers to ensure their safety and compliance to manpower staffing and certification requirements. In other words, the RTLS system ensures the right workers with the proper certifications and skill sets are on board the rig at the desired station to maximize safety and productivity. Akin to the black box for aviation, this new solution ensures all stakeholders are aware of real time situational deployment of human resources.
HD 500 EXPANDS THE HD 1000 ANTENNA LINE
JUNE 2010
American RFID Solutions continues to mastermind improvements in the RFID/RTLS space. Building on the highly successful high definition product line of UHF antennas, ARS adds the HD 500 which maintains the performance but delivers it in half the size. This breakthrough makes it easier to mount antennas in retail and office environments where aesthetics and space are important constraints.
RFID & PROPERTY TRACKING SYSTEM
MAY 2010
American RFID Solutions provides state of the art RFID technology to help a top tier Department of Defense contractor track 27,000 assets over their 1 million square foot facility. ARS deployed its TrackStar software and integrated 3D maps to show the real time location of items, allowing users to easily find company property.
RFID – Ideas Worth Sharing AT PRESTIGIOUS TED EVENT
APRIL 2010
American RFID Solutions Founder & CEO, Harold Clampitt, discusses "Ambient Information: the DNA of Decision Making" bringing his expertise in the field of RFID to the development of a superior process for extinguishing noise and getting the best information in the right time frame to yield peak outcomes.
ANT – ANTENNA TUNER
DECEMBER 2009
American RFID Solutions upgrades its Antenna Tuner tool which provides installation crews with an automated means to maximize tag singulations. ANT makes the radio waves visible by building real time graphs and statistics to outline the performance of elements in a modern read zone. ARS eliminates the guess work and black magic in delivering high performance RFID or RTLS system.
TrackStar 3rd GEN
SEPTEMBER 08, 2009
ARS releases its third generation event notification module for TrackStar. Known as the eVENT Engine, it automatically advises customers via email and sms messages on the progress of their order fulfillment. Anyone who sends a parcel package has come to appreciate the value of real time updates on where UPS or FedEx locate the package within their delivery chain. Now this capability is available to anyone who uses ARS' TrackStar or iSTAR, award winning software. Works in a linear or multi-branch chain to track items of interest. Once again, ARS software permanently unlocks the value from the RFID hardware.
RFID AUTOMATION WITH LEXMARK
AUGUST 2009
Lexmark, a leading Fortune 500 company specializing in printers, collaborates with ARS to create a success story for RFID automation. The case study shows the benefits of ARS software deployed at a live customer site making millions of measurements a day and using numerous Lexmark RFID Laser printers. The solution increases manufacturing efficiency. A double digit direct labor improvement and superior response time are the hallmarks of this real world use case being driven by ARS TrackStar software.
STEP UP WITH LEAN MANUFACTURING
JULY 2009
ARS takes Lean Manufacturing to a new level. Working with the world’s premier automotive manufacturing company (Fortune 100), ARS re-invented the Andon concept. Using Smart Phones and Multi-media content we added mobility to the traditional fixed status display stations. iSTAR supports this up and close investigation by providing a multi-media Andon as well as other situational aware information. We are now a leader in line with Toyota’s Genchi Genbutsu (現地現物) which means “Go and see for yourself to thoroughly understand the situation”. ARS continues its ground breaking efforts by supplying the right information, at the right time, to the person best suited to take action for the benefit of the stakeholders.
LTA FROM AEROSPACE
MAY 2009
Aerospace Fortune 500 company awards a LTA (Long Term Agreement) to an ARS client because of their use of TrackStar and iSTAR. Up to this point RFID was being positioned as a technology to improve efficiency by making life simpler for staff, cheaper for the organization, and offering a better customer experience. Now the evidence shows RFID can be used to also grow revenue. Our client benefited from showing his Aerospace customer how RFID is dramatically improving their operations. It instilled such confidence in the Aerospace giant that they awarded the LTA. ARS’ client has over one hundred new SKUs and their revenue flow. A great tribute to how ARS software unlocks the value of RFID and improves business operations.
BEST IN SHOW
APRIL 2009
The industry’s most prestigious show, RFID Journal Live, recognized ARS with a finalist award for Best in Show for iSTAR. This replicated a similar honor earned by ARS with its TES product in 2008. We are the only company to ever do this two years in a row and it highlights ARS' innovation and game changing excellence. We are very appreciative of the iSTAR contributions made by our team members in the US, Canada, India, Russia and Malaysia.
NEW MILESTONE
MARCH 2009
New milestone for ARS. The company noted that it reached an important step in its 5 year history. The point of distinction includes ARS' involvement in tagging/tracking over one million items such as material handling equipment (golf carts, fork trucks, pallet jacks, pallets), tools, people, books, cars, large screen TVs, IT equipment, classified assets, guns, jewelry, paper, computers, liquid detergent, hi-pressure steel tanks, cans, batteries, aerospace parts and other items of importance. Contributing to this success are ARS customer sites which have eclipsed over 1 billion reads. ARS attributes this success to two strategic investments. The first occurred in 2007 when ARS advanced its architecture to use load balancing, stackable servers. Second, in the summer of 2008, ARS deployed an application framework similar to that used by giant FedEx to handle millions of parcels each day, except we harnessed it for tag reads on extreme volume customer sites. Another example of ARS software unlocking the value from common off the shelf RFID hardware.
TES IN ETS
JANUARY 2009
McLean, VA. Booze Allen Hamilton (BAH) places TES in their Emerging Technology Showcase (ETS). ARS passed their rigorous screening process and BAH has added TES to their arsenal of biometric security solutions. BAH is truly an elite consulting firm which many of the world’s largest companies (including the US Government) turn to for security consulting. It is an honor to be invited to join ETS and a huge opportunity to give exposure to TES.
