KeyTone And The FutureWorks Group Leverage Their Strategic Partnership To Win US Air Force Unique ID
Online, July 27, 2011 (Newswire.com) - KeyTone Technologies, a recognized leader in RFID solutions and The FutureWorks Group announced today that their strategic partnership combined with a complimenting UID traceability platform resulted in a significant win of US Air Force business.
The FutureWorks Group's Item Identity Management™, I2M™ , solution was originally developed by Boeing to provide a highly flexible, highly functional and affordable system for item identification and tracking for military aircraft parts. The patented process and technology for serialized parts marking was refined into the Opportunistic Parts Marking concept through Boeing's work with the Army. The FutureWorks Group is a licensee of Boeing's Opportunistic Parts Marking patent. FutureWorks has worked collaboratively with Boeing, the US Army, and the US Air Force to develop the I2M™ system to support UID adoption by OEMs, suppliers, and DoD programs.
Item level traceability is a critical requirement for many manufacturers, distributors and government organizations in securing and tracking valuable assets and providing essential services. UID provides a completely unique identification for each item using a data construct comprised of several discrete pieces of information. The UID can then be captured in an RFID tag that can be leveraged throughout the item's product life cycle. KeyTone's visibility platforms fully support UID constructs in its solution implementations.
"The UID market is a $200B opportunity which includes gaming, pharmaceuticals, luxury goods, electronics, food safety and other markets. Our partnership with The FutureWorks Group is focused on getting a significant share of these markets." said Edwin Winder, executive vice president at KeyTone. "Our USAF win validates that our common platform has a proven value proposition in item level traceability and with FutureWorks, we are committed to delivering similar solutions to the government and commercial markets worldwide."
"Our primary focus is to combine the RFID value proposition provided by KeyTone's leading RFID management capabilities with our other automated information technology (AIT) solutions to serve multiple industry verticals regardless of whether the application requirements are closed loop or open. KeyTone's sensor-based visibility platforms are the ideal complement for our legacy barcode-based item management systems," says Dr. Richard E. Goodwin, president of The FutureWorks Group. "With recognized leadership in UID and RFID, our joint solutions, marketed under the I2M brand with the "powered by Keytone" logo will allow customers to realize the tremendous benefit afforded by this advanced technology."