Six Sigma and TAGSYS
Posted by: meikah | 22 March 2007 | 12:28 am
TAGSYS, the global leader in item-level RFID systems and tags, has announced that they are launching a Six Sigma Performance Program initially for pharmaceuticals. The program guarantees no more than four failures per million reads for high frequency (13.56 MHz) passive RFID tags used for item-level pharmaceutical product tracking.
With this new program, TAGSYS is hopeful it will bring in new confidence in RFID quality-of-service (QoS) that pharmaceutical companies need for large-scale deployments.
The service is initially for the pharmaceutical industry to facilitate track-and-trace applications, but it could be expanded to other industries. Jordon cited the results Cardinal Health released last year from its UHF Gen2 item-level tagging pilot as an example of how low performance expectations are a barrier to adoption (see Pharmaceutical RFID Pilot Finds Promise, Problems). Cardinal said it learned a lot from its pilot and considered the program a success, but attained a top item-level read rate of 99.5 percent for one operation and a low of 7.8 percent for another. Case-level read rates ranged from 76.3 to 100 percent.
Source:
RFID Update, “TAGSYS Guarantees Six Sigma RFID Performance” with the link provided by Six Sigma Zone
*Photo credit: RFID Journal
