Why UID Journal? 

UID Benefits

UID Journal is an online utility, to inform the more than 22,000 Prime and Sub-contract suppliers, as well as 3rd Party Logistics firms (3-PL’s) and agencies, that supply the US DoD.

UID Journal features activities of suppliers and program managers.

UID Journal is the independent Journal of Unique Identification.

UID Journal delivers insightful information, news, solutions resources and on-line training; to help government contractors  understand the latest implementation tools and requirements.

Corporate Suppliers and Program Managers can depend upon UID Journal for up-to-the-minute news, implementation stories and interviews, product news, and case studies of programs and solutions. UID Journal’s provides insight to solution technologies, as well as compliance issues.

Benefits Summary of UID Implementation

When: You Have the Capability to:

• Identify items individually and uniquely (UID/AIDC)

• Exchange data in a common format

• Use the identification and exchange to "Track" an Item

Then: You Can Realize Process Improvement Opportunities

• Improved Data Quality through UID and Automated Identification and Data Capture (AIDC)

• Improved Inventory Control

• Better Warranty Management

• More Rapid Fraudulent Parts Detection

• Identification of "Bad Actor" parts

• Efficiencies from Corporate Serialization Standardization

• Improved Through-Life-Visibility

• Increased Reliability and Availability

• Implementation of a Predictive Maintenance model versus Use-to-Failure model

• UID/AIDC Significantly reduces risk of quality failure associated with identification errors

• Eliminates legibility issues & data transcript errors

• An enabler to a paperless system

• Improves speed and accuracy of data transfer

UID/AIDC Technologies are Internationally recognized and utilized DoD/ISO/NATO and others

• UID/AIDC Has the ABILITY to...

• Improve parts traceability

• Reduce internal processing procedures

• Capture accurate 'As Built' data

• Check 'Should Build' data

• Reduce Replenishment costs

• Generate electronic log books

• Similar Efforts are Underway

• UID/AIDC Technologies provides the information to drive the next wave of global product and process improvements

• Gain ROI now by to provide unambiguous and consistent data

• Use AIDC for internal traceability and tie to transportation, shipping, inventory management

• Capitalize on operational data capture to decrease costs and provide better asset visibility of end items and spares

• Rapid adoption of UID/AIDC will increase the rate of accurate and timely data for predictive maintenance and fault isolation increasing both safety and operational availability

• Note: DoD and International Requirements for AIDC and IUID will only increase so act now or be at a strategic disadvantage

ROI dividend of UID/AIDC Implementation

• Asset management

• Warranty issues and claims

• Cradle to grave history - who, what, where, & when

• Acquisition data, movement history, disposition

• Security requirements compliance

• Accountability and valuation of property

• Historical data management

• Prognostic item maintenance