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Benefits to look for should aid in the identification processes and disadvantages should
impede the identification process. Ideally, the technology should offer some of the
following benefits:
Increase the ease of uniquely identifying assets
Increase identification storage capacity
Wireless identification
Decrease the time needed to identify the asset
Decrease the need for human interaction in the identification process
Allow asset to system communication over greater distances
Decrease system inventory and actual inventory discrepancies
Increase resistance to destruction
Identification encryption
Relatively inexpensive with respect to benefits provided
Low error rates when identifying assets
3) Identify Touch Points: Consider the process mapping created in step one. Process steps
that may be impacted by the benefits of the technology are candidates for touch points.
In a depot environment, touch points are typically identified as points in which the actual
asset is identified or needs to be uniquely identified. For wireless technologies such as
RFID points at which assets are identified through keying in identifying data or scanning
are candidate touch points. Depot facilities usually repair and/or overhaul assets for their
customers. Hence, these assets travel from some defective parts warehouse to a repair
center and then back to a repaired parts warehouse where the part may wait for shipment
to a customer. Thus, depot facilities offer several ingress and egress points as the asset
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