7:00 Continental Breakfast

8:00 RFID Soars at Boeing

Jeff Tolberd, Manufacturing Process Analyst, Boeing Company will reveal the results of five pilot programs that were conducted recently at their Wichita manufacturing plant to evaluate active and passive RF-based identification and tracking systems..  They will discuss how Boeing plans to use RFID to improve manufacturing processes at this giant jet maker.  In addition they will detail how they plan to implement RFID identification systems in their Wichita operation. 

8:45 Smart Labels in an SAP-based Supply Chain

Dave Harty, Director of Research and Development, Acsis will demonstrate the full cycle use of smart labels through an SAP-based supply chain.  He will analyze the system design and identify the critical points within this supply chain where smart labels should be used.  In addition, Dave will evaluate the system by focusing on the operating improvements and benefits from using this technology. 

9:30  RFID Applications in the Supply Chain for Personal Care Products Industry

Simon Ellis, Supply Chain Futurist, Unilever Home & Personal Care NA will present his perspective of potential applications of smart labels in the supply chain used for retail oriented products.  He will analyze how this RF technology will improve efficiency, visibility and security.  Simon also will evaluate the implications that smart labels will have on the 'extended' supply chain. 

10:15 Refreshments

10:45 How Alien Technology will Deliver Ultra-Low Cost RFID by 2005

Thomas Pounds, Vice President, RFID Products, Alien Technology will describe how Alien's fluidic self-assembly and NanoBlockTM IC technologies provide the key missing links to the 5-cent RF tag.  Tom will discuss the operating capabilities of their new chip, operating frequencies, storage capacity, and other important characteristics in order for end-user industries to incorporate this 'break-through' chip development into their future RF-based identification and tracking systems.

11:30 The Use of Smart Label Inlets in a Wireless Data Collection System

Marc Oosterlinck, Divisional Technical Director, CCL Label, will discuss a current application in the gaming/entertainment industry in which RF technology is used to keep track of disbursement of clients monies, rewards earned and account information. Marc will describe the system, its robustness and resultant economic benefits. He will show how it may be used as part of a customer loyalty program, security/control enhancement for the fast foods industry and other interesting applications.

12:15  Lunch

1:15 How Can Multi-Protocol Readers Ease Your SCM RFID Decisions

Donny Lee, President & CEO, AWID will present the latest developments in multiple protocol readers and demonstrate how they will allow RF systems to be implemented today regardless of  which protocols and/or RF suppliers are used.  He will discuss several examples of SCM projects and the options available today.

2:00 How Smart Label Printers Work

Clive Hohberger, Vice President of Technology, Zebra Technologies will discuss the characteristics of smart label printers and how they merge the printing function with RF encoding.  Different design approaches relative to applications will be explored.  Issues such as user programming of the RFID operations through the label design language, limitations imposed on smart label ticket and tag design, and the impact of RFID on regulatory approvals will be explored.  Clive will use the new Zebra R-402  and P-210 13.56 MHz printer/encoders as case studies.

2:45 The Future for Smart Labels

George Gilfoil, Managing Director, CB Consultants, will present the current findings of his on-going industry market study of smart label technology.  George will discuss the identification needs of the major market sectors in which RF-based smart label technology may be used, estimate their market sizes and anticipated growth rates, and, describe the justification metrics required by these end user niches for this technology to be more fully implemented.

3:15 Roundtable Discussion

Industry experts will discuss smart label applications being developed for supply chain, manufacturing and general identification systems, ROI justification metrics, barriers and challenges to future growth of this technology as well as answer questions from attendees.

4:00 End of Conference
 

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SPECIAL PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP

Monday, October 21, 2002

1:00 - 5:00  The focus of this workshop is two-fold: "How to design your own RF/Smart Label solution" and "Developing metrics to evaluate the ROI of your RF/Smart Label system".  This four-hour workshop will assist end-user attendees to design and evaluate an RF/Smart Label system.

Instructor:  Dr. Patrick King, President, Technologies ROI