Radio Frequency Identification Technology for Logistics, Tagging and EPC

From Mandating to Embracing: RFID in Aviation, Aerospace, and Defense

Monday, April 11, 2005

Jesse Josephson, Vice President of Marketing for PartsBase, has been on the leading edge of technology marketing and implementation for more than seven years.

For decades the aviation, aerospace, and defense industries have struggled to increase the efficiency of their supply chain. To date, the vast majority of proposed solutions have not made a lasting impact; they fail entirely or complicate issues by populating the industry with non-integrated systems. Despite past experience and a general distaste with current mandates, these industries are searching for an “across-the-board” improvement to the systems used to manage, move, and track inventory.

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