Metalcraft - RFID Solutions Partner

About Metalcraft

Metalcraft specializes in durable RFID tags designed for asset tracking in harsh environments. With over 70 years of experience in identification solutions, they offer metal-mount tags, tamper-evident designs, and customizable form factors to meet diverse industry needs. Their products excel in applications where traditional labels would fail due to environmental exposure or tampering attempts.

Key Products from Metalcraft

Universal RFID Tags - All-purpose tags for standard asset tracking
Universal Mini RFID Tags - Compact tags for smaller assets
RFID Windshield Tags - Specialized for vehicle identification
Standard RFID Asset Tags - With both human-readable text and RFID capability
Metal Mount RFID Tags - Designed for direct application to metal surfaces

All Metalcraft RFID products are engineered to provide reliable identification and tracking across various applications, from asset management to access control and inventory tracking.

Why We Partner with Metalcraft

American RFID Solutions partners with Metalcraft because of their proven track record of delivering high-quality RFID tags that perform reliably in demanding environments. Their expertise in creating durable identification solutions translates directly to superior RFID products.

Metalcraft's tags offer exceptional features that are critical for many of our customers:

Superior durability in harsh environments
Resistance to chemicals, abrasion, and extreme temperatures
Custom printing and programming options
Flexible mounting options including adhesives and mechanical fastening
Long read ranges with optimized antenna designs

This partnership enables us to provide comprehensive identification solutions for customers across manufacturing, healthcare, government, and education sectors where reliability and long tag life are essential requirements.

America's Leading RFID Integrator Since 2002

Our Legacy

American RFID Solutions has been working on tracking and inventory systems for 23 years, starting with TrackStar in 2002. We're the longest-operating RFID integrator still using the same core engineering and leadership team, which has kept us consistent.

Manufacturing Excellence

We've developed reliable solutions for factories, covering job shops, continuous process, JIT, and KanBan setups. Lear Corporation used our system to manage their European JIT process, ensuring shipments went out on time with no issues. ArcelorMittal had us build a system to coordinate their steel mill's production lines under harsh conditions. A Fortune 500 manufacturer applied TrackStar to handle build-to-order and JIT operations across multiple campuses, reducing inefficiencies with real-time data updates.

Defense & Aerospace Innovation

We've supported aviation, aerospace, and defense projects with practical results. L-3 Communication Systems-West used our system to improve workflow efficiency for DoD communication equipment. Another DoD contractor used TrackStar for tracking 27,000 government assets across a million-square-foot facility, maintaining full accountability and meeting strict maintenance and geodetic requirements. In 2021, another defense client gave us a 5-million-square-foot facility to manage, where we tracked 500,000 assets annually using energy-harvesting RFID, keeping operations lean and consistent with constant monitoring.

Enterprise-Scale Data Management

We've handled large data volumes—hundreds of billions of measurements—over the years for clients with enormous facilities, some with roofs up to 40 acres. These operations depend on accurate data for decisions. One of the top three U.S. energy companies in 2022 uses our system to monitor grid assets live.

TrackStar Dashboard: Processes billions of location updates yearly for stakeholder reports.

Transit Authority: Our 2021 system for the second-largest U.S. transit authority manages billions of requests annually.

Healthcare: We're in over 850 hospitals, tracking 1.5 million pieces of medical equipment.

Scale Mastery: We've built systems for hospital workflows and large steel mills, handling any size or complexity where our performance is mission critical and lives depend on TrackStar reliability.

Industry Recognition

We were finalists for Best in Show at RFID Journal Live three years in a row, 2008 to 2010—a consistent run.
A 34-hospital group measured all their vendor projects for performance sustainability over a 3 year window. TrackStar won - our method of using automation to stop creep and walk-back to "bad-habits" earned us first place for improving hand hygiene compliance and reducing infections over the long haul.
We did a RFID webinar with Motorola that had the highest attendance and longest viewer retention they'd seen.
ARS has deployed some of the largest passive RF topologies, with thousands of contiguous antennas in one system.
We've also written four textbooks on RFID, covering the technical details.

Our healthcare systems address real problems. Hand hygiene monitoring with RFID has cut hospital-acquired infections by up to 45% at client sites. Tracking patients and equipment ensures critical tools are available when needed, and monitoring medications and specimens reduces errors. This lets staff focus on patients, cuts delays, and improves outcomes. Healthcare clients rely on our systems for these results.

From the top 10 global steel mills to Johns Hopkins, Amazon (our hosting partner), and others, we've reduced "whole house" inventory from days to minutes. We have 23 years of experience solving tough problems and offer the best applications-engineering in the business. We have a broad and deep intellectual property stack to get you operational with results. Give us the chance to earn the right to be your partner.

Harold Clampitt, CEO/Founder and Jim Policheri, President