RFID breakthrough in Australia

A small Australian company has broken an industry myth with a patent pending breakthrough.

While the industry accepted belief was that a pallet full of metal stock could not be automatically read via RFID technology, the company has ‘defeated the laws of physics with an international patent pending solution that is able to change the way that palletized metalstock is handled’, according to a statement.

Customer disputes over delivered or returned stock and stock losses are common in many industries and in particular in the construction and asset hire industries. In recent tests conducted in the USA within the scaffolding and asset hire industries, the patent pending Intelligent Reader Pallet was able to eliminate the cost associated with manual counts and data entry of stock in such a way that companies were able to save many millions of dollars in operational costs.

With the Intelligent Reader Pallet, the operator can focus on collecting the scaffolding parts. Manual counts, data entry and intermediate paper records are eliminated. Stacking and collecting parts is rapid and focused.

Without the Intelligent Reader Pallet, it requires a minimum of two manual counts by two different operators, writing the results on a form to be subsequently manually entered into a computer system. The Intelligent Reader Pallet saves an average of 10 minutes of work per pallet and creates electronic records instantaneously.

According to Jorge Tabacman, the co-inventor of the Intelligent Reader Pallet, it is the ability to uniquely and automatically identify each item of stock inside the pallet plus the ability to download this information to a computer that makes this solution unique.

Based on the strength of its intellectual property, development plan, export earnings potential and the patent pending Intelligent Reader Pallet, Jorge Tabacman & Associates has won the support of the Australian Government's Research and Development Board.

Jorge Tabacman is a former CIO of Westfield and the creator of the business improvement methodology SIMMETHOD and the author of a book ‘Converting Information into Assets’.