In 2005, airframe manufacturers determined that passive radio frequency identification (RFID) technology presented an opportunity to get timely access to maintenance histories for parts. Through the ...

Tracking small parts used in aircraft manufacturing is a task that requires effort on the part of both suppliers and manufacturers to ensure that those items, such as fasteners or bolts, never run out ...

Airbus will tag hundreds of parts in the A350 XWB with passive radio-frequency identification (RFID) devices, becoming the first manufacturer to require high-memory RFID tags on flyable parts. French ...

Delta Air Lines Inc. plans to test the use of radio frequency identification tags to track engine parts next month in partnership with The Boeing Co., according to Marty Kangiser, Delta’s general ...

Honeywell selected the TegoView RFID parts tagging software to expedite its parts tagging process for the aircraft components it supplies to airframe manufacturers. Tego, developer of TegoView, said ...

Is it feasible to scan an entire cage full of RFID-tagged parts, and then have the cage report a quantity by item number (counting inventory, finding containers contaminated with multiple item numbers ...

In the previous article, “The principles of RFID: Active Tags,” we discussed a classification of RFID tag called the active tag. Even though the active tag has many applications, it does not get as ...

In the previous article, “The principles of RFID: Hardware Basics,” we discussed the key hardware components found in most RFID solutions. This article will focus on the active tag, an RFID tag that ...

"Given the size of our factories, if something gets lost it can take a long time to find"... Boeing is piloting RFID tags and wi-fi technology to track and locate aircraft parts across its vast ...

In Twelfth Night, Shakespeare wrote, “Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.” RFID is one of the more recent four-letter abbreviations to have greatness ...

In a broad context, radio transmissions containing some type of identifying information are considered Radio Frequency Identification (RFID). This can be a cab driver using his unit number over the ...