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Southwest Airlines has released a statement in response to the announcement by King County Executive Ron Sims that the Southwest Airlines proposal to serve Boeing Field has been rejected.

RFID Global Solution and Rush Tracking Systems, two of the worlds top RFID solution providers, announced today that they have formed a strategic alliance where the companies will develop active, passive, and global positioning system based RFID solutions for Fortune 100 companies in consumer product goods, aerospace and defense, manufacturing, life sciences, and government sectors.

Mt. Airy, MD and Kansas City, KS (PRWEB) June 26, 2007 — RFID Global Solution and Rush Tracking Systems, two of the worlds top RFID solution providers, announced today that they have formed a strategic alliance where the companies will develop active, passive, and global positioning system based RFID solutions for Fortune 100 companies in consumer product goods, aerospace and defense, manufacturing, life sciences, and government sectors.

“Our companies have been experiencing extremely strong growth and increasing demand over the past five years. We decided to look for a partner that we could not only trust, but one that would be a force-multiplier, accelerating internal growth and providing complimentary skill sets,” said Toby Rush, President of Rush Tracking Systems. Before deciding to work with one another, each company went through a comprehensive evaluation process that took many months. Joe Leone, President and CTO at RFID Global Solution, explains, “we considered the analytical, technical, financial, and ethical aspects of all the integrators in the RFID industry.

We avoided the companies that have more marketing experience than hands-on RFID deployment experience.” Both companys proven track-record of successful RFID implementations and outstanding customer references were the predominate deciding factors that forged the relationship. The two companies are presently engaged in several different RFID projects together.

Louis Sirico, founder of RFIDWizards.com, a community of the worlds leading subject matter experts on RFID technology, shared his analysis, “the RFID Global/Rush combination includes an extremely talented roster of professionals. Together, they have more RFID subject matter experts than any other integrator in the industry, including IBM, Accenture, or Unisys.” The team resumes include designing and implementing RFID solutions for Wal-Mart, Target, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed-Martin, Delta Airlines, Coca-Cola Enterprises, Johnson and Johnson, Procter and Gamble, Agencies within Department of Defense (DOD) including the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) and the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), Department of Energy (DOE), as well as all branches of the military.

About RFID Global Solution

RFID Global Solution was founded by a team of some of the most experienced RFID engineers in the industry representing more than 160 years combined experience. The RFID Global Solution team is capable of deploying RFID solutions with the confidence and certainty that only comes from their combination of “in the trenches” experience and high-level, systems understanding.

RFID Global Solution is the winner of Boeings 2007 Silver Eagle Award for Supply Chain Innovation and Optimization.

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Not that this happens often at aerospace giant Boeing, but the company recently deployed a wireless LAN (WLAN)-based location tracking system to keep tabs on all its high-value components and manufacturing equipment.

“In the factory, the ability to locate major parts and tooling on a timely basis is critical,” says Jim Farricker, chief network engineer and technical fellow at Boeing. (Vaho Rebassoo, CTO, computing and network operations, at Boeing, will participate in an lnterop panel on the future of wireless technology on May 4 at 11:30 a.m.)

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Quickly locating parts is difficult at times in Boeing’s Everett.Wash., facility, where 737s, 747s, 767s and 777s are built.The plant covers almost 100 acres, encloses 472 million cubic feet and is the largest building in the world (by volume) according to The Guinness Book of World Records. The site is also where Boeing is readying its 787 Dreamliner super-jumbo jets, scheduled to roll out this summer.

In advance of the 787 project, and to speed up production of its other aircraft lines, Boeing’s IT group last year began installing wireless location tracking. The technology will let engineers find and assemble the collection of airplane parts and tools - known as kits - more quickly and allow for better inventory tracking.

“It will streamline our production environment and make it more efficient time-wise and dollar-wise by not having to replicate tooling and pieces of gear,” Farricker adds.