As Supply Chain Manufacturing & Logistics enters its 25th year of covering solutions to improve the operations excellence of manufacturers and retailers, we are taking a look back at some of the articles we did starting in the 1980s that deal with products that we take for granted today, including bar code readers and printers, wireless LANs, enterprise software including manufacturing, warehouse management, and ERP, plus RFID, OCR, mag stripe, and more.

RFID in the Early Years
he first two articles we’re posting (in pdf format) as part of this look back deal with RFID. RFID is often perceived as a brand new technology, but it is not, as these two articles from 1986 show. That’s right! We were covering RFID in 1986! So as you take a step into the way back machine, think about what you were doing the year that we were introducing this potentially revolutionary, but still in many ways, immature technology, to our readers!