Last year, Honda began using radio frequency identification (RFID) tags and tracking technology for over 500,000 reusable metal cages and plastic containers for its automotive supply chain in the United Kingdom. Like most RFID projects reported to date for pallets or containers, they involve tracking expensive inventory or, as in the case of Honda and some other applications, control of costly reusable containers, such as beer kegs, air freight unit load devices or automotive racks."Honda's problem was that its assets are very expensive and also very specific to each part," explained Andy Chadbourne, marketing and communications manager for Intellident, a UK-based designer and supplier of asset tracking software. "For example, a container for dashboards can only carry dashboards. The return on investment for the project was entirely based around loss prevention and better utilization of the assets, not the content."
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