Industry Tracks

Aviation/Aerospace

This track is designed specifically for airports, airlines, aircraft manufacturers, maintenance companies and others looking to understand how radio frequency identification can improve operations and reduce costs.

The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) is rapidly expanding its use of radio frequency identification to better manage its supply chain. A growing number of suppliers are being asked to tag goods before shipping them to the agency. This track will focus on how the DOD and its suppliers are benefiting from using the technology. The presenters will also explore the ways in which suppliers can benefit from utilizing RFID internally to lower costs, improve security and expedite payment from the military.

Pharmaceutical and health-care companies are achieving real benefits from employing radio frequency identification. In the health-care field, hospitals and other medical facilities are employing RFID to improve patient safety, increase asset utilization with real-time tracking, boost revenue with automated billing and reduce medical errors using track-and-match applications. Pharmaceutical companies are exploring the technology's potential for collecting pedigree data, as well as examining other potential uses, including reducing counterfeiting and theft, and improving shipping accuracy. Learn how RFID is impacting ROI in the health-care environment, while also improving efficiencies in the pharmaceutical industry.

Manufacturing companies are employing RFID to achieve major benefits, both in their supply chains and in their factory operations. This can be accomplished cost-effectively by tracking tools, reusable containers, work in process, finished inventory and more. This track will focus on how leading manufacturing firms are utilizing RFID to achieve benefits today.

Conference Track Sponsor:

Retail and apparel companies have been among the early adopters of RFID technologies, both internally and within their shared supply chains. Many businesses are already seeing benefits, and are prepared to share their insights about those benefits, as well as the implementation issues they needed to address before achieving them.

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RFID Journal LIVE! 2011 is produced by RFID Journal, the World's RFID Authority.