Identification and Tracking:

Driven by the dual needs of identifying the origins and histories of items during their service lives and of improving inventory management and control, permanent component identification and tracking has been achieving an ever higher profile .

And nowhere has this phenomenon been more apparent than in life and  safety-critical applications in the aerospace, defense and healthcare industries.

In the aviation industry Spec 2000 has been adopted to manage these processes between airlines and suppliers of equipment and repair services .

In the defence sector the US Department of Defense has developed the  Unique Identification (UID) Registry system for tracking high value, mission-critical equipment.

In the health care sector a number of authorities are investing in novel tracking technologies to monitor and control the vast range of instruments used in modern surgical procedures.