WINMEC RFID Executive Forum - Modifying Global Business for Competitiveness
Healthcare, Retail, Energy, Environment, Manufacturing
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Teleconference will be provided for registered attendees who wish to participate remotely.
RFID has started to have a major impact on various industry segments ranging from retail to healthcare, and, energy to manufacturing. While in early part of this century, retail and supply chain were the most relevant industries where RFID was applied, today, this technology has become far more pervasive resulting in its application in wide ranging industries including healthcare, energy, electric utilities, etc. Essentially this technology is tracking and monitoring key assets and inventory whose optimization of utilization is a key competitive advantage for global businesses. Business benefits include streamlining of business processes, supply chain collaboration, rapid availability of business data, higher level of granularity in business intelligence, refined inventory management, better accounting and financing of assets, global visibility into distributed enterprises, and, enhanced infrastructure management.
This forum will bring together business, government, technical and education leaders from across the world to discuss how entire industries are being modified and benefiting by this technology. Opportunities and challenges will also be discussed. The topics discussed will include (but not limited to):
As technical innovations are being combined with successful business requirements in the most commonly found application - inventory/supply chain, several industries have moved forward aggressively in pursuing projects ranging from pilots to full scale deployments. For example the airline industry is using tagging of baggage to help reduce lost luggage (in several airports throughout the world). Aerospace companies are starting to use RFID to track their components and sub-assemblies through the life cycle of the aircraft. Retail industry is investigating RFID for unit-package level tagging which has traditionally been a difficult problem (e.g. Sam's Club mandate). Manufacturing companies are using RFID to located critical components or assemblies in a factory or warehouse. The pharmaceutical industry, by way of e-pedigree mandate such as in the State of California going into effect in the next several years is exploring RFID for counterfeit prevention. The healthcare industry is looking at applications of RFID for tracking medicines, patients, specimens, etc. Governments worldwide are experimenting with secure RFID tags for passports and also for border control. Homeland security departments are investigating RFID for validating contents of container shipments at maritime ports. Logistics companies are using RFID to expedite cargo arrival, sorting, storage, retrieval and shipping. As a result of the vast range of applications, the following industries will be invited to participate at the forum:
For information please contact : rfid@winmec.ucla.edu.
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