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It’s early in the game, but the materials handling industry is looking at new ways to use Big Data to maintain equipment, deliver services and manage processes.

The ADC market grew incrementally in 2012 amid changing customer interests and stiff competition.

With suppliers jumping on the RFID bandwagon and more deployments looming on the horizon, the future of RFID remains promising. Here are the market drivers that continue to push ADC/RFID adoption and examples of facilities that are putting it to work.

It's been a few weeks since Honeywell announced that it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire Intermec. While this continues to be subject to regulatory approvals, in this blog post I share some thoughts on how this deal may shape up and impact the barcode vendor landscape. Intermec is an active participant in two barcode technology hardware markets – Barcode Printers and Handheld Barcode Scanners.

With the $600 million deal, Honeywell adds RFID and voice to its portfolio

The ADC market continued to rebound, posting solid numbers once again in 2011.

Proponents have changed the conversation and have started tagging at the item level in what the industry is now calling a “source-to-store” approach.

Modern’s 2012 outlook finds that overall market uncertainty has slowed materials handling spending and has increased facility consolidation and engineered process improvements. Cost containment has returned as the most important issue of the day.

Supply chain professionals are certainly moving toward mobile applications to improve overall operations, but just how fast is it happening?

After a challenging 2009, the ADC market bounced back in 2010 and looks strong moving forward.

Modern spends 60 seconds talking with David Krebs at VDC Research.

Could managed services be the new business model for RFID? That’s one of the questions being asked by the industry, according to VDC Research Group.

One of the emerging stories in the RFID market is the convergence of technologies around RFID, especially sensing technologies.

Every year for the past five years or so has been the year RFID was going to take off in the supply chain. Too often, the reality failed to live up to the hype. That may be about to change, according to a new survey of RFID users from VDC Research Group ([url=http://www.vdcresearch.com]http://www.vdcresearch.com[/url]), the Massachusetts based technology research firm.