Savi's I-GUIDES Helps Global Defence Forces to Keep Better Track of Items
By Savi Technology - Lockheed Martin, PRNEMonday, November 30, 2009
Lockheed Martin Subsidiary Announces Data Repository Advantage of I-GUIDES for Uniquely Marked Items at First UID Summit in Europe
AMSTERDAM, December 1 - On the eve of Europe's inaugural UID Summit (www.uidsummit.com), Lockheed
Martin's (NYSE: LMT) Savi business today announced how its industry-leading
SmartChain(R) I-GUIDES solution can provide a centralized data repository
that helps defence forces and their suppliers to keep better track of items
marked with unique identification codes. I-GUIDES is an interoperable,
standards-based solution that improves item-level supply visibility for
allied defence organizations.
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Savi's I-GUIDES adheres to NATO's Standardization Agreement (STANAG) 2290
for implementation of uniquely marked items, and it is already used by the
U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and 30 of the top major defence suppliers in
compliance with DoD's own Item Unique Identification (IUID) Policy.
"With I-GUIDES, individual defence organizations in Europe and worldwide
can keep better track of each and every item throughout their life cycle
while conforming with multi-national standards for asset management," said
London-based John McFadyen, Savi Technology's General Manager of
International Operations. "Whether it's a jet engine part or a protective
vest, I-GUIDES enables defence organizations to uniquely mark items, register
them and find them no matter their status or where they're moved about
through local or global supply chains."
I-GUIDES allows each organization to create its own unique identification
code within standardized formats when marking a particular item with
two-dimensional bar codes.
I-GUIDES is a web-hosted software solution that can be purchased through
a license or a subscription. It supports a full range of data input
approaches and printers to generate 2-D barcodes, can be set up rapidly, and
can integrate data with passive RFID labels and other Automatic
Identification Technologies to associate the item with cases, pallets or
containers transporting them.
As a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), Savi,
www.savi.com, is a leading provider of real-time supply chain information and
technology solutions and services.
Headquartered in Bethesda, Md., Lockheed Martin is a global security
company that employs about 140,000 people worldwide and is principally
engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration and
sustainment of advanced technology systems, products and services. The
corporation reported 2008 sales of US$42.7 billion.
Mark Nelson, +1-650-316-4872, mnelson at savi.com, www.twitter.com/savigroup, for Savi
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