3M landed its second major government contract for RFID file-tracking last week from the U.S. Tax Court, which will deploy the 3M RFID Tracking System to improve the tracking and retrieval process of its more than 100,000 case files.
The U.S. Tax Court is following in the footsteps of its sibling federal agency, the U.S. Tax Division, which has also purchased 3M's RFID file-tracking solution.
The goal of RFID file tracking is to improve the efficiency with which paper files are handled within an organization. One can imagine that in organizations like government agencies, law practices, accounting firms, medical offices, and hospitals, the file volume is immense and unwieldy. Generally, the systems in place to deal with this volume are crude and prone to error. There is a high cost associated with the many labor hours spent retrieving, returning, and tracking down files, let alone the additional resources necessary when lost files need to be recreated or result in litigation.
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