OATSystems Announces Availability of Proven Automated RFID Tagging Solution

OAT tag@source is First Solution that Allows Customers to Choose among top RFID Integrators and Label Applicators for Automated Tagging

WALTHAM, Mass. October 12, 2006 – OATSystems®, Inc., the recognized RFID framework leader, today announced OAT tag@sourceTM, a complete, automated, in-line tagging solution that enables manufacturers to efficiently apply RFID tags to products within production and packaging facilities. By easily and accurately tagging at the source, manufacturers not only meet compliance mandates and minimize the cost of applying RFID tags, they also gain wider visibility into product movement to support valued-added applications.

OAT tag@source is based on over 700 months worth of automated RFID-tagging experience across numerous industries including: Food & Beverage, Consumer Electronics, Consumer Packaged Goods, Oil & Gas and Industrial Manufacturing. The solution is built on OAT's market-leading, SOA-based, RFID Framework -- the OAT Foundation Suite -- which provides proven integration into existing systems such as WMS, MES, PLCs, and is validated on IBM’s Premises Server.

“Our customers have tagged over 12 million products to date and are automatically applying a half a million RFID tags a month at 28 automated production lines making OAT tag@source the most widely deployed solution in the industry,” said Marc Osofsky, vice president of marketing and product management at OAT. “OAT tag@source reflects the best practices developed across these deployments and provides the most mature solution in the market today.”

OAT tag@source includes all the necessary process steps including encoding, applying, verifying, pallet building, shipping and any necessary rework. Available immediately in a variety of open configuration options, OAT tag@source can be delivered by consulting partners such as IBM and Rush Tracking Systems, application hardware providers like IBM, Printronix, Zebra, Weber Marking, Diagraph and the Kennedy group, as well as RFID readers manufacturers ADT/Tyco, Impinj, Symbol, and Alien.

About OAT
OATSystems, Inc. is the recognized RFID framework leader with software that empowers businesses to achieve competitive advantage from radio-frequency identification (RFID). As a pioneer in the development of RFID technology, OAT has been setting the standards in RFID for over half a decade and is responsible for industry firsts that include; the largest scale and largest scope of deployments, as well as the most innovative approaches to providing enterprise-wide RFID solutions. OAT’s multinational client base consists of over 70 customers in retail, CPG, consumer electronics, manufacturing, life sciences, aerospace and defense. Headquartered in Waltham, MA, OAT has offices in Austin, Chicago, London, and Bangalore and is on the Web at www.oatsystems.com.