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 Manufacturing Summit
The Manufacturing Summit of the RFID Journal Industry Summits is designed to meet the educational, buying and networking needs of executives and technologists in the manufacturing industry. The Manufacturing Summit will take place in a relaxed environment where you can meet, listen and discuss with other RFID professionals the issues that impact your business the most. Manufacturing Summit attendees are welcome to attend sessions from each of the other three co-located summits as well as the shared technology exhibition.
Manufacturers are finding the benefits of RFID in plant operations can outweigh the challenges of implementation. Hear how early adopters have found solutions to address the problems and use RFID data to drive business benefits. During the Manufacturing Industry Summit, you will have the opportunity to attend interactive sessions where your questions will be answered by leading early adopters and industry experts. You will also learn:
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How RFID data can be used to drive internal business benefits,and its potential to improve the manufacturing process |
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What RFID data is available—and how software can be used to develop new reporting tools |
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How RFID can be integrated with corrugated packaging |
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The solution one company developed as a new way to RIFD-enable its products |
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The roadblocks and issues preventing mass adoption |
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How to get around key technical obstacles to adoption |
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Insights into the business case for RFID in a variety of applications in manufacturing |
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Manufacturing Summit Sessions
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| September 26 |
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| PRE-CONFERENCE |
| 12:00 pm |
Pre-conference seminar opens
Working Lunch: RFID Basics
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| 12:45 pm |
Break |
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| 1:00 pm |
Pre-conference seminar continues
RFID Journal University
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| 5:00 pm |
Day 1 concludes—pre-conference adjourns |
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| September 27 |
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| CONFERENCE |
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| 7:00 am |
Registration opens
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| 8:00 am |
Continental breakfast
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| 8:45 am |
Welcome and Introduction
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| 9:00 am |
RFID: A Global Update
EPCglobal US has brought together global companies from all industries to help achieve mass adoption of EPC/RFID technology. In this session, you'll hear about the progress being made towards adoption of EPC/RFID in Europe,
Asia, and the Americas. You;ll also learn about the progress EPCGlobal subgroups are making toward creating standards for data sharing among companies in specific industries.
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| 9:30 am |
Are RFID Privacy Best Practices Enough?
Industry leaders have proposed a set of best practices around protecting consumer privacy when using RFID
technologies. But are these enough? Or does the technology need a foolproof way to protect consumers? Or
is legislation required? Our panel of experts examines these issues and addresses ways to avoid becoming the
subject of negative headlines.
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Paula Bruening, Center for Democracy & Technology
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Sandra Hughes, Global Privacy Executive, Proctor & Gamble Co.
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Elliott Maxwell, RFID Consultant & Fellow, Center for the
Study of American Government, Johns Hopkins University
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| 10:10 am |
Refreshment break in Exhibit Hall |
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| 11:00 am |
Manufacturing:
Battery Assisted Passive (BAP) Tags: Tthe "Best of Both Worlds"
Between high performance, reliability and functionality offered by active RFID tags at prices closer to those of passive tags, battery-assisted passive tags are the sensible solution. Breakthrough performance, uniquely enabled by battery-assisted passive tags and readers, include 100 meter read range, 100 percent read-write accuracy, 64 Kbit user read-write memory and compatibility with EPC standards. The rich feature set, brought forward by battery-assisted passive technology at compelling price points, enables a number of critical applications in manufacturing.
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Understanding how to gain insight that can go beyond
only RFID enabled stores
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How to establish ROI opportunities to justify the
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| 11:45 pm |
Lunch in Exhibit Hall |
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Manufacturing:
Coping With the Cost of Compliance
Placing a tag on pallets and cases of products shipped to a customer that has issued an RFID-tagging mandate doesn't have to be extremely expensive. Our panel of experts provides tips on keeping costs low, and for offsetting the cost of compliance by achieving internal savings.
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Tips for keeping RFID tagging costs down |
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Best practices for using RFID mandate to cut internal costs |
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Manufacturing:
Logistics Provider Does the Tagging for Wal-Mart Supplier
At the start of this year, another 200 Wal-Mart suppliers were expected to start RFID-tagging pallets and cases of their products set for delivery to the retailer's RFID-enabled distribution centers in Texas. Atlas Cold Storage, a food industry warehousing and distribution services company, is providing the tagging as part of its service to two of those suppliers, creating a new revenue stream and saving its customer time and money.
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Paul Dennis, Vice President, Business Integration and Effectiveness,
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How to scale an RFID tagging system |
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How to reduce labor costs while meeting tagging mandates |
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Manufacturing:
Using RFID for Regulatory Compliance
Since the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington,
governments around the world have introduced tighter regulations of food and
other products. This puts a burden on companies to collect accurate
information about their products and their movements through the supply
chain. In this session, you will learn how Blommer Chocolate Company, the largest
manufacturer of chocolate in North America, deployed a warehouse-management and
RFID-tracking systems to comply with the U.S. Bioterrorism Act of 2002—while
simultaneously improving inventory accuracy and warehouse efficiencies.
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Best practices for using RFID to comply with government regulations |
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Insights into how RFID can improve warehouse operational efficiency |
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Manufacturing:
Examining the Business Case
In this interactive session, attendees engage thought leaders in a discussion of the key issues surrounding the business case for implementing RFID in the manufacturing industry. The issues discussed will include using RFID in manufacturing operations, how to benefit from sharing RFID data with suppliers and customers, and overcoming problems associated with using RFID in challenging manufacturing environments. The panel will also answer questions submitted by attendees and raised in online surveys conducted by RFID Journal.
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| 4:45 pm |
Day 2 program concludes |
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| September 28 |
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| 8:00 am |
Breakfast |
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Technology vs. Law: Navigating the RFID Regulatory Process
Complying with privacy, security, and FCC regulations have become
issues of concern for RFID system users. Balancing legal
requirements with a successful business approach can prove to be a challenging task. How can companies stay on top of an effective compliance strategy in this ever-changing legal landscape while using the technology to its fullest potential.
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Doug Farry, Managing Director, Mckenna Long & Aldridge
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Getting Top Performance from RFID Tags
Learn about the process used to develop durable tags, which applications
require them, and how to select the appropriate materials to improve tag
performance. In this session, leading technologists discuss, compare and
contrast solutions geared for various industry needs.
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| 10:40 am |
Refreshment break in Exhibit Hall |
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Manufacturing:
How To Integrate Your Tagging Operation
World Kitchen met is tagging requirements from Target in June 2005 and Wal-Mart in January 2006. It was among the first suppliers to integrate its tagging operation with its backend system. One of the leaders of that effort talks about what it takes to integrate RFID into SAP's enterprise resource planning applications, and how this approach will save the company money, enable it to scale the operation and eventually achieve internal efficiencies.
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Insights into the issues companies face as they integrate RFID with back-end systems |
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An understanding of the benefits of integration over "slap and ship" |
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The usefulness of RFID data in supply chain analysis |
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| 12:30 pm |
Lunch in Exhibit Hall |
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Manufacturing:
Supply Chain Collaboration—"Working With Partners"
Many of the key benefits of using RFID are achieved when companies share data and work together to change supply chain processes. In this interactive session, find out what standards are being developed for the manufacturing industry, what infrastructure is needed to share accurate data securely and how to effectively begin and maintain resourceful data sharing operations with supply chain partners. Our panel of experts will also answer questions from attendees and address issues raised in an online survey of RFID Journal readers.
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Day 3 concludes—conference adjourns |
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RFID Journal Industry Summits are produced by RFID Journal, the
World's RFID Authority.
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Among the Manufacturing companies that have previously attended RFID Journal events are:
Air Products and Chemicals Albion Industries Alcatel Bell Arden Companies Arista Enterprises AVNET Bavarian Motor Transport Bridgestone Brother International Corp. Brown Forman Corp. Burford Corp. Caterpillar Chevron CID Electrical Ltd Colder Products Custom Building Products Custom Craft Co. Deere & Co. Dell Dow Chemical Eastern Components Eaton Corp. Erie Plastics ExxonMobil Fast Heat Ford Motor Co. GE Energy / Power Generation GENCO Genentech General Electric Georgia-Pacific Corp Hewlett Packard Brasil Hewlett-Packard HP Hood Hunter Fan Ingersoll Rand Climate Control Intel Solution Services InterMetro Industries Johns Manville Johnsonville Sausage Kansai Electric Power Co. KDS Kohler Canada Co. Kruger L3 Communication L-3 Titan LA Home Products Lancaster Colony Corp. Lexmark Lomont Molding Louisville Bedding Co. LS Industrial Systems Co. Ltd MeadWestvaco Meyer Corp. Micron Technology MinnTech Electronics Mitsubishi Electric Automation NEC Corporation Nortel Ohio Metal Technologies Packaging Corp. of America Panasonic Praxair Rice Lake Weighing Systems Ricoh Rock-Tenn Co. Roseburg Forest Products Short Bark Industries Skechers USA St. John Knits Sun Automation Temple-Inland The Dow Chemical Co. US Smokeless Tobacco Manufacturing Vaughan Bassett Furniture Co. Viking Range Corporation Weyerhaeuser Xerox |
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