Case Studies

Airbus industries completed an exhaustive search for an exclusive RFID integration partner in 2006-07. After nearly a year long process they chose ODIN technologies and ODIN provided Airbus with an Industry-leading innovation. As a result, Airbus was recognized as the 2008 Best RFID Implementation Award Winner at RFID Journal Live in April 2008.

Challenges: Reduce costs, eliminate labor costs, increase Work In Process accuracy and visibility, cut inventory.

Result: Airbus projects have been a huge success. The company was able on saving as much as 30% in labor costs, and reducing inventories up to 18% on specified projects. One WIP tracking process alone eliminated 10 million manually bar codes annually.

DePuy is a leading provider of joint replacement to surgeons world-wide. The internal RFID team at Johnson and Johnson suggested DePuy contact ODIN technologies to help solve a particular inventory issue. The result DePuy was nominated for a 2008 best RFID Deployment at RFID Journal Live and demonstrated an ROI in under 10 months.

Challenge: DePuy was working in a reactive mode, sending out more than 600 kits daily to surgeons to use for joint replacement surgery. They were manually scanning all the contents of each kit as it entered and exited the facility. This could take from 10 to 30 minutes per kit, so it was very labor intensive.

Result: ODIN technologies developed a complete solution from custom hardware to integrated software, which met their business needs. The result was taking the process down to under a minute giving a 12 times productivity improvement. ODIN also provides 24x7 remote monitoring and support via the EasyMonitor^TM suite.

Since 1946 Shaw has been focused on building a great company with great products. Their focus on customer service brought them to a leadership position in the industry. To retain their competitive advantage they have leveraged technology to keep them one step ahead of their competitors. RFID is one of the arrows in their quiver of technology advantages. Read the full case study here (pdf).

The story of Thomasville began in Thomasville, North Carolina, in 1904. At the time, they offered just one product – a chair. The “Thomasville Chair” it was called. The chair was so beautifully crafted and well made that people responded by asking them to create other pieces as well. Now more than 100 years later, the Thomasville story is still being written. Their success has led them to be major suppliers to Wal-Mart and Target. When the time came to meet those RFID mandates Thomasville put together one of the most comprehensive RFPs in the industry and chose ODIN technologies as their preferred vendor. Read the full case study here (pdf).