Help with Tracing Products in the Supply Chain

The new ISO 17367:2009 standard will help manufacturers and distributors to track products and to manage their traceability using standardised radio frequency tags. The development of radio frequency identification (RFID), including peripheral devices and their applications, is indispensable to increasing the safety and reliability of products at each stage in the chain of production, processing, distribution and selling, says the statement from the International Organisation of Standardisation.

Craig K. Harmon, Chair of Technical Committee 122, Working Group 10, comments, “ISO 17367:2009 will provide higher level security of products worldwide using RFID technology. It will enable easy and efficient exchange of commodities in international trade and logistics.”

ISO 17367:2009, Supply chain applications of RFID, Product Tagging, makes recommendations on:

• Encoded identification of the product
• Additional information about the product for inclusion on the RFID tag
• Semantics and data syntax
• The data protocol to be used to interface with business applications and the RFID system
• The air interface standards between the RFID interrogator and RFID tag.

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Tags: ISO standard, Product traceability