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by Chris Chiappinelli, MA Editorial Staff Posted on Friday, October 17, 2008 8:57:38 AM   | Abstract: | An analyst envisions a manufacturing world in which the particulars of the wireless communications infrastructure matter less than the processes they enable.
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| Keywords: | Wireless asset tracking, RFID asset tracking |
Practitioners and industry observers for years have advocated a more process-centric view of RFID and other wireless communications technologies, with limited success. Manufacturers in general still appear timid when it comes to RFID and wireless technology selection, often fretting over whether Vendor X’s infrastructure and software will underperform Vendor Y’s.
But at least one analyst firm believes the era of Real-Time Intelligence Visualization has arrived. In a recent report, Michael Liard, a research director at ABI Research, pointed to this brand of operational insight as the next wave of manufacturing intelligence.
“RTIV is not about the individual technologies” such as RFID, WiFi, or ultra-wideband, Liard wrote. “It is about the process and logic that end users must embrace. That concept focuses on end users seeing data (or the ‘intelligence’) and their tagged assets in new ways, with ‘real-time eyes.’ ”
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