Abstract
“200 Million RFID tags will be used on apparel in 2009 rising to 833
Million in 2012”
Description
The new IDTechEx report "Apparel RFID 2009-2019" is unique in comprehensively
analysing the use of RFID in the apparel value chain from tagging cloth in
manufacture to retail fashion and rented apparel. 138 users and suppliers are
profiled. From Chile to Canada and Sweden to Taiwan, there is something to
learn from all of them, not just from the unusually broad approach in Germany,
Italy, China, Japan and the USA. This industry is on the move in a manner
unmatched almost anywhere else in the RFID market.
Hundreds of organisations are now using RFID on or in apparel including shoes
and uniforms, baby clothes and industrial laundry. That means anything from
tagging drag hangers, cases and pallets to the largest use, which is in or on
the item of clothing itself, whether by a stitched-in cloth tag or a paper
swing tag. The benefits are powerful and wide ranging from improving customer
service and efficiency - including reducing stockouts - to combating
counterfeiting, theft and misplacement and automating sorting processes and
stocktakes.
A large number of major brands are collaborating to make the process seamless,
not least from manufacture to sale in the store and even later use for
managing customer returns, incentives and other action beyond the checkout.
A full glossary of terminology is supplied and there is consideration of
standards and interested trade organisations, including EPCglobal. Uniquely in
this report you have the ten year forecasts, lessons of success and failure
and comprehensive profiles of leading players. There is a detailed explanation
of the market, the technology and the many paybacks as well as what comes next.
This report of over 250 pages goes into detail about the RFID projects
concerning apparel at 77 users of RFID in 16 countries. The report also
profiles a representative sample of 61 suppliers of RFID products and services
that already serve the apparel industry, from chip makers to system
integrators. Profusely illustrated and with over ten summary tables, the
report is both readable by newcomers and informative for experts. There are 80
illustrations. Its seven chapters all deal with the global situation because
approaches are very different across the world and there is considerable scope
for cross fertilisation of best practice. This helicopter view has never been
available before and IDTechEx is uniquely placed to provide such analysis
because its technical staff travel incessantly, assessing the situation.
Indeed, only IDTechEx has the world' s largest database of RFID projects - the
IDTechEx Knowledgebase of over 3800 projects in 110 countries, updated daily,
each having technical detail and descriptive text. IDTechEx has technically
savvy RFID experts in the USA, Europe, Japan, New Zealand and elsewhere. It
stages leading RFID conferences in Europe and the USA and attends appropriate
events every month somewhere in the world.
Only IDTechEx can understand and explain the past and present and see the
future from such a comprehensive basis and using such seasoned professionals.
Buy the report and you will even have limited access to them for no extra
charge to answer your extra questions.
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