October 31, 2024, Portland, OR…Starting November 3 and running through November 6, the 2024 PACK EXPO show will set the stage for exciting advances in warehouse operations and one of the world’s fastest moving technologies—RFID. AsReader will be showing these advances in booth LU-6820 of the Lakeside Upper Reusable Packaging Pavilion at McCormick Place, Chicago.

Debuting at PACK EXPO is a new technology partnership between AsReader and Locus Robotics, the world’s leading Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMR) manufacturer. Dubbed “Locus Origin,” the AMR links with AsReader’s RFID technology to create a state-of-the-art warehouse management system with a new approach to improving logistics efficiency and automation.

The Locus Origin allows humans and robots to collaborate on automation and optimize manual processes, without replacing humans. The robots travel the warehouse floor with totes, and humans pick the product and put it into the totes.

One technology that works with the Locus Origin is the RecoHand™, a new Wearable RFID device from AsReader and Teijin Frontier that achieved FCC/FDA approval in the US this year. This technology was recently named a finalist as one of the best new products of 2024 by RFID Journal.

Until now, picking has been a two-part process where workers grab the box, then read it with an RFID gun. Now, as users grab the box, the wearable RecoHand is reading the item as workers grab it, in one motion. This has improved efficiency rates by 50% in practical use in Japan.

RecoHand is the same material as a golf glove and in use by the Japanese government, workers learned to scan bins by running their hands across products, and while grabbing the items they’re able to read it simultaneously. Used at hospitals’ warehouses for first responders and COVID-19 response, the Japanese government reported that using RecoHand more than doubled their productivity speed.

Teijin Frontier, a textile manufacturer based in Japan for more than a century, makes high-quality technical materials, and they created a technology that confines radio waves. By integrating this technology with fibers cultivated from their foundational business, they have created an unparalleled UHF wearable reader.

AsReader will also be showing its best-selling GUN-Type scanner, the ASR-L251G GUN-Type Reader/Writer, now in its “V2” upgrade.

This updated version of the L251G has a more streamlined case and makes the AsLOCK connector stronger — and easier to replace. Designed in Japan and made in South Korea (and TAA compliant), the L251G is currently in the hands of many manufacturers, retailers, healthcare leaders, and transportation/logistics companies aiming to complete inventory and locate items quickly.

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AsReader, Inc. is an Oregon Corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of Asterisk, Inc of Japan. Asterisk was founded in 2006, headed by charismatic founder Noriyuki Suzuki with over 100 employees worldwide, headquartered in Osaka, Japan with offices in Tokyo, Nagano, Shiga, and Kyoto, Japan, Dalian and Shenzhen in China and Portland, Oregon in the USA. Major clients include manufacturers Toyota and Kawasaki, retailers Tokyu Hands and Aoyama, over 350 hospitals worldwide and three well-known logistics/delivery companies utilizing over 20,000 AsReaders each. Please visit https://AsReader.com for more information.