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Learn How to Track and Manage Everything
Hear Real-World Case Studies from the Leading End-Users
RFID Journal LIVE! Europe—UK, RFID Journal's first event in London, will focus on educating end users about how radio frequency identification (RFID) technology is delivering real business benefits across Europe. This one-day program will share how to attain the full benefits of RFID-enabled technology, and provide companies with a greater understanding of how RFID can be used to improve production processes, increase visibility, lower labor costs, reduce theft, track inventory and transform the supply chain. LIVE!—UK will connect attendees with leading end users, industry experts and solutions providers offering the latest RFID systems.
- Hear speakers from leading end-user companies candidly discuss new applications for RFID, the business benefits they deliver and how to overcome implementation challenges
- Learn from a range of sessions that include how to leverage RFID to enhance visibility and traceability, supply chain management and to improving operational efficiency
- Meet the leading end users, experts and RFID solution providers
- And so much more!
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Agenda30 October 2012| 08:30 | Coffee on Exhibit Floor
| | 09:00 | Opening Remarks
Speaker:
Mark Roberti, Founder and Editor, RFID Journal
| | 09:05 | RFID: Getting Maximum Value From a Disruptive Technology
Since its introduction to retail more than a decade ago, RFID has been used in a variety of ways, from pallets and cases in the fast-moving consumer goods supply chain to individual apparel items. In all uses to date, the technology has been misunderstood and underutilized as simply "a super bar code." Only when companies begin recognizing and using RFID for what it truly is—a disruptive technology—will its full value be realized. In this session, Dr. Bill Hardgrave will discuss the emergence and misapplication of RFID, and explore how it should be properly viewed and deployed.
Speaker:
Dr. Bill Hardgrave, Dean and Wells Fargo Professor, College of Business, Auburn University
| | 09:50 | Using RFID to Improve Visibility and Save Labor Costs
KH Lloreda, Spain's largest household cleaning products company, has successfully implemented an automated system for loading and shipping its cleaning products that tracks where the cartons are being moved, and also captures any errors. The solution tracks where the cartons are being moved, and also captures any errors. The RFID-based system tracks cartons of products as they are automatically assembled onto pallets, placed onto trucks, unloaded and stored at a distribution center, reassembled onto pallets in response to a retailer's order, and again loaded onto trucks for delivery to that retailer. Learn how the company uses robots to stack boxes onto pallets at the manufacturing site, bring those pallets to a staging area and then load them onto trucks, for delivery to its DC. Hear how the system has enabled the firm to know which stage its products are in during the shipping process, as well as when their status changes.
Speaker:
Daniel Lancho, Operations Manager, KH Lloreda, S.A.
Takeaways:
• Why the company chose an RFID solution that can capture the ID number of an EPC Gen 2 passive tag attached to each box loaded with cleaning products, allowing the system to track the loading of goods and ensuring that mistakes do not occur
• How the system is reducing labor costs | | 10:30 | Networking Break on Exhibit Floor
| | 11:00 | Managing Returnable Transit Items (RTIs) Using RFID
A British provider of plastic pallets and reusable containers, as well as a manager of pallets and containers used by other companies, is deploying radio frequency identification to track its own assets—while also helping customers to set up RFID tracking for their reusable pallets and containers. The firm is currently tagging its own products, in addition to installing interrogators at its three European depots (two in the United Kingdom, and one in Germany), and at a number of third-party warehouses that the firm utilizes to ship its pallets and containers throughout Europe. Hear about the company's future plans, which include putting readers within customers' warehouses, and enabling them to share regarding those containers' movements.
Speaker:
Jon Graves, General Manager, Packaging Logistics Services
Takeaways:
• How to actively manage stock to make sure there are adequate supplies, while eliminating overstocking—a common practice of product manufacturers and reusable packaging providers
• How RFID is being used as a tool to offer to customers | | 11:40 | TAP Saves More Than €2.5 Million With RFID
TAP Portugal is the country's leading airline, and its TAP Maintenance and Engineering (TAP M&E) division has incorporated RFID technology into its daily engine-maintenance operations, developed in partnership with MEGASIS (a TAP group company), as well as Airbus, Accenture and OATSystems. This is the first time that a maintenance and repair organization (MRO) has integrated RFID technology into its production process in order to track aircraft engine components undergoing maintenance. Learn how the solution, known as Mobile Enabled Engine Repair Application (MEERA), has resulted in increased efficiencies in labor-intensive operations within a complex series of processes requiring hundreds of engine components to be removed, cleaned, repaired and reassembled. MEERA provides TAP M&E with full real-time visibility into its component-tracking process, from the disassembly cycle to engine reassembly, generating operational efficiencies and providing full and more secure tracking.
Speaker:
Fernando Ferreira Matos, Head of Information Technologies, TAP Maintenance and Engineering
Takeaways:
• How the MEERA solution enables the firm to trace engine components undergoing overhaul, as well as tools belonging to other organizations
• The use of passive RFID UHF labels that are codified, printed and attached to engine components undergoing maintenance—a process that enables the TAP M&E engine-maintenance department to identify each component during all subsequent maintenance processes | | 12:20 | Lunch Break on Exhibit Floor
| | 13:30 | How RFID Solutions Drive New Business Benefits
RFID hardware has become more reliable over the past few years, enabling companies to take advantage of RFID data in new and powerful ways. What's more, software solutions are enabling firms to reengineer processes and deliver greater value. In this session, our panel of experts will explain how businesses are leveraging these new capabilities.
| | 14:15 | RFID Produces ROI for College
West Cheshire College, a vocational school in the northwest part of England that houses more than 20,000 students at its two main campuses, spends more than 80 percent of its income on staffing. Additionally, the college must verify student attendance in order to justify and maintain its funding. Following the installation of an RFID-enabled solution that automated the tracking and reporting of student and teacher attendance, the school is enjoying increased staffing efficiencies, resulting in a quick ROI. Learn how West Cheshire is using the RTLS solution for its current access-control and student-tracking requirements, and how it plans to expand the deployment to address future needs in such areas as asset tracking.
Speaker:
Kevin Francis, Building Services Area Manager, West Cheshire College
Takeaways:
• Best practices for RFID implementations
• Additional benefits, including decreasing student registration time and improving safety by gauging accurate evacuation counts during fire drills | | 15:00 | Networking Break on Exhibit Floor
| | 16:00 | Patrizia Pepe Improves Supply Chain Visibility Via RFID
Patrizia Pepe, an Italian fashion brand of Tessilform S.p.A., has doubled the efficiency of the intake and shipping of its apparel as the garments are processed at the company's three distribution centers, while its tagged clothing can also be read at some stores by customers looking to learn more about the products. Following the RFID solution's installation at all three DCs, employees are now able to handle 380 to 400 items per hour. Previously, when shipping goods to retailers, the DCs could process only 140 products hourly, but they now can ship out approximately 330. The RFID system has also increased accuracy, thereby ensuring that incorrect products are not shipped to retailers, and that out-of-stocks are less likely to occur due to inaccurate inventory counts. Learn how the company uses RFID at some stores to display product information, thereby encouraging sales. When a customer carries clothing past informational video totems located near the dressing room entrances at each of four stores—three located in the Italian cities of Rome, Florence and Milan, and a fourth in Moscow, Russia—two LCD touch screens play videos of models wearing the clothing, and offer advice regarding other items or accessories that might combine well with that garment.
Speaker:
Lorenzo Tazzi, Information Technology Manager, Tessilform S.p.A.
Takeaways:
• How the RFID system has increased accuracy, ensuring that incorrect products are not shipped to retailers
• Reducing out-of-stocks by providing accurate inventory counts | | 16:45 | Supporting Customer Service Operations Via RFID
An international manufacturer and supplier of commercial trucks, parts and diesel engines, in collaboration with its logistics partner, is employing RFID technology to identify and track spare parts at a 190,000-square-meter facility. The project tracks the physical flow of the spare parts from the company's main warehouse to its dealers. Hear how every unit is tagged and identified, enabling each spare part that exits within the warehouse to be unique and given a "personal passport," thereby certifying its origin.
Takeaways:
• How RFID has improved the efficiency of the company's overall warehouse-management processes, resulting in fewer shipping errors
• Future uses of the system to improve parts availability at the user level | | 17:30 | Closing Remarks
Speaker:
Mark Roberti, Founder and Editor, RFID Journal
| | 17:35 | Conference Concludes
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All conference sessions are subject to change, and RFID Journal reserves the right to alter dates, programs and speakers at any time, as circumstances dictate. Sessions without assigned speakers indicate a target topic; every effort will be made to ensure that a program of equivalent standard and value is available.
RFID Journal LIVE! Europe is produced by RFID Journal, the World's RFID Authority.
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