RFID works for Toshiba

After six months of implementation, Toshiba reports that the technology has led to a huge ROI and exceeded all expectations.

"Implementing this solution is showing that RFID can provide tangible benefits for manufacturers in their processes without the need for customer mandates to drive RFID adoption," said Andreas Unterbusch, RFID project manager at TOSHIBA TEC. "Because all the notebooks are individually tagged, future expected requirements from retailers are already in place."

Two million RFID tags were used in the first seven months of the system - and Toshiba reports that daily throughput increased 81 percent to more than 17,000 notebooks per day.