RFID chips have proven successful in identifying plant components uniquely and in supporting work tasks on site. As their only drawback it turned out that the information stored on the RFID chips is invisible. Without the help of a PDA (a personal digital assistant), the technician could not read the information stored on the RFID chip. The new V-RFID chip (”Visual RFID chip“) of Evonik Energy Services GmbH provides the solution by not only storing data like a conventional RFID chip but by a...