GE Aviation Finds Value in RFID

"John Hamilton, logistics operations leader for GE Aviation, a General Electric division that manufactures jet engines for civil and military aircraft, says that when his company saw the specter of an RFID mandate coming from the Department of Defense (DOD), it quickly started looking at how it could get value out of RFID to improve its own operations. In August 2004, GE Aviation began a proof-of-technology pilot for an internal, closed-loop RFID tagging system. After working through some challenges regarding tag readability and data integration with its warehouse management system, the division completed the pilot early this year and made the RFID system a part of its business process." Source: rfidjournal.com