(ISO: Geneva) -- For reasons of safety and reliability, the importance of being able to trace products throughout the supply chain has strongly increased in recent years. The new standard from the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 17367:2009 will help manufacturers and distributors to track products and to manage their traceability thanks to standardized radio frequency tags.
Traceability is defined as the tracking and tracing of product and information related to it at each stage of a chain of production, processing, distribution, and selling. The development of radio frequency identification (RFID), including peripheral devices and their applications, is indispensable for increasing the safety and reliability of products for consumers.
ISO 17367—“Supply chain applications of RFID—Product tagging,” defines the basic features of RFID for use in the supply chain when applied to product tagging. In particular it makes recommendations for:
“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,” says Craig K. Harmon, chair of technical committee (TC) 122/working group (WG) 10.
ISO 17367 is applicable to a wide range of industries and it has been elaborated in order to ensure compatibility at the physical, command, and data levels with four other international standards under the general title, “Supply chain applications of RFID.” International standards within this suite are interoperable and noninterfering:
These international standards define the technical aspects and data hierarchy of information required in each layer of the supply chain. The ISO/TC 122/WG 10, responsible for packaging, in collaboration with ISO/TC 104, responsible for freight containers, developed this series of standards.
The ISO/TC 122/WG 10 has undertaken a revision of this suite of standards to provide better clarity to the encoded methods to be utilized and support for sensor technology.
The standard, ISO 17367—“Supply chain applications of RFID—Product tagging,” is available from ISO national member institutes.
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