RFID Systems Laboratory

Your Resource for Improving Performance, Productivity, and Controlling Expenditures

Paxar’s commitment to excellence and reliability is evident in the unique radio frequency identification testing services we offer, free of charge, to you, our customer. Our extensive RFID Systems Laboratory, housed within the Miamisburg facility, provides you with a full range of pertinent data on which to base your RFID decisions.

A portion of our 1200 square foot laboratory is dedicated to a precision anechoic chamber that is shielded from external noise and electromagnetic interference, affording the most dependable, pristine, and replicable RFID measurements. Inside the chamber, readability analysis of your RFID-tagged products reveals information that could potentially save you both labor costs and penalty charge-backs resulting from inaccurate reads.

Specific measurements being recorded in the chamber are:

• Optimum label positioning for the strongest read
• Read strength at various distances
• Inlay comparisons
• Customer-specific investigations based on label preferences

The properties of certain foils, liquids, foods, or even packaging methods, can interfere with the radio frequency signals, making the tests we conduct in our laboratory invaluable to your company’s bottom line. Correctly positioning the RFID label on the box or crate and using the optimal inlay are critical to achieving precise readings, which could translate into hundreds of thousands of dollars in labor savings when accuracy increases by a mere half percent.

At the conclusion of the testing process, a comprehensive report is compiled for your benefit, delineating the reading comparisons and making recommendations based on the findings. The full-color report, which features photographs of various label orientations and statistical graphs of read ranges, is then presented to you for discussion.

Paxar provides further support for those of you who are new to RFID and are seeking advice on reader location and set-up scenarios for your facilities. Our laboratory includes a simulated warehouse environment which contains 10-foot portals as well as a 600-feet-per-minute powered, conveyor portal system, allowing us to test your products in a real-world application that relates directly to your distribution process.  Testing can be conducted with a full range of readers from Alien®, Sirit®, Impinj®, ThingMagic®, and more.