RFID Tags: SAT Corp.'s Handhelds Help Refineries Quickly Spot Problems

From ComputerWorld ... based SAT Corp. that marries handheld devices, radio frequency identification (RFID) tags and workflow applications. Workers are ...

SAT Corporation is the leading provider of integrated field force automation solutions for process manufacturing industries. For process-intensive enterprises, the integration of manufacturing decision support systems with mobile field workers has proven to be labor intensive, time consuming, and costly. SAT Corporation's integrated field force automation software and technology provide a practical, intelligent solution. Our IntelaTrac® enterprise software enables data collection, field force management, asset tracking and integration capabilities that fully extend enterprise and manufacturing decision support systems to mobile field workers through wireless handheld computers, like those offered by Symbol Technologies. Based on Adaptive Process Management, a rules-based workflow model for implementing field force automation solutions around complex processes, IntelaTrac software has been successfully deployed by Fortune 500 companies and other organizations and has produced significant, documented cost savings.

SAT's IntelaTrac® Work Process Management System is based on Adaptive Process Management (APM), a rules-based workflow model for implementing field force automation solutions around complex processes. Within the structure of this APM model, the data collection, field force management, asset tracking, and integration capabilities of IntelaTrac fully extend enterprise manufacturing decision support systems to mobile field workers. IntelaTrac software was designed from the ground up to operate on multiple mobile computing operating systems and platforms, and integrate seamlessly with a variety of back-end CMMS enterprise manufacturing, planning, and decision support systems. Using a suite of integrated modules, IntelaTrac software optimizes flexibility in addressing specific tasks and goals, and it allows for expansion to meet future needs.

RFID is the most advanced asset tracking and identification tag technology available today. It provides positive identification and automatic data transfer between a tagged object and a reader, which speeds data collection and improves the quality of data by validating asset and location information. Further, RFID tags have read/write capabilities, so tag data can be updated in the field with mobile computing devices. SAT's MA V wearable computer is designed to fit securely and comfortably on the body using a complete range of Xybernaut-designed vests, belts, and cases. Xybernaut has taken great care to consider key ergonomic, comfort and function issues or body placement, access, weight balance, materials, freedom of movement, hygiene and body support to ensure seamless human-computer interaction.