RFID Journal LIVE! Europe 2017

16 Nov, 2017 12:15 pm

Solution-Provider Session: Inventory Accuracy: The Key to Unlocking Omnichannel Conversion and Enhancing Consumer Experience Both On and Offline

Avery Dennison is a global leader in RFID-enabled solutions, with more than 800 patents, and applications and global manufacturing capabilities that have produced more than 10 billion RFID tags and labels to date. The company has an industry-leading solution-development team that supports customers from business case development to complete solution rollout. During this session, you will learn how RFID is enabling omnichannel success and driving consumer experience. For more information, visit averydennison.com/RFID, and follow Avery Dennison RFID on LinkedIn.

16 Nov, 2017 9:00 am

RFID Reduces Costs, Scheduling Impacts for NASA JWST Mission

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is using RFID technology to track the various components used to assemble the groundbreaking James Webb Space Telescope, a large infrared telescope with a 6.5-meter primary mirror. Due to the size and scale of the project, NASA is utilizing a number of domestic and worldwide teams to build the necessary components. As the work progresses, it is necessary to track the location and status of every single component. Learn how NASA is using RFID technology to reduce labor costs while tracking and maintaining asset inventory and schedule integrity.

16 Nov, 2017 9:40 am

RFID Cuts Risk and Reduces Costs for Weatherford

Weatherford, one of the largest oilfield services companies provides technologies and services for formation evaluation, well construction, completion, stimulation and production, has expanded its existing RFID technology programs to manage the operation of downhole tools during the hydraulic fracturing and stimulation processes. The firm is integrating LF RFID readers in its downhole tools and tags are pumped into wells to trigger such actions as closing or opening valves to control the flow of fluids. Learn how the system reduces operational costs and risk by cutting the amount of time, surface equipment and personnel required to achieve the drilling, completion and stimulation of a well in an ultra-high cost environment.

16 Nov, 2017 10:20 am

Item-Level RFID in Retail: Where the Benefits Are

RFID’s ability to provide item-level visibility within stores and through the retail supply chain has been well-documented. But what is the value of this visibility? How does it enable omnichannel retailing? How does it enable retailers to enhance the consumer experience, improve conversion rates, and reduce stock loss? And what benefits can be achieved by manufacturers who tag the goods at the source? Two retailers that have deployed RFID will answer these and other questions.

16 Nov, 2017 8:15 am

Coffee in Exhibit Hall

16 Nov, 2017 8:45 am

Opening Remarks

16 Nov, 2017 11:00 am

Networking Break in Exhibit Hall

16 Nov, 2017 11:30 am

SBB Cargo Provides Automated Alerts of Freight Car Movements via RFID

Swiss rail freight operator SBB Cargo is using RFID technology to monitor the movements of freight cars into and out of stations and yards. The deployment allows the company and its customers to identify exactly when each car rolls into a station and when it leaves, as well as the order in which the cars are coupled. That makes the loading and unloading process easier for SBB Cargo’s customers, while preventing errors or freight delivery delays. Learn how the system is currently being used by dispatchers, yard workers and customer to identify freight cars in real time, and how the technology might be used in the future.

16 Nov, 2017 12:45 pm

Solution-Provider Session: Byways and RFID: What Can Go Wrong?

The presentation is an introduction to Byways and how the company supports retailers by ensuring that RFID-enabled products survive the rigors of manufacturing processes and freight, but still work when they arrive in store. RFID is the buzzword in retail at the moment, and rightly so—the benefits are significant. However, there is no point in investing heavily in an RFID project only to find that your products can’t be read when they reach stores. This presentation will guide you through the steps Byways has put in place with its customers, including River Island and its suppliers, to ensure that this doesn’t happen, and to make sure that RFID works for you. River Island is one of the United Kingdom’s largest apparel retailers, with more than 350 stores. Its solutions have helped it to achieve significant benefits through the adoption of RFID technology.

16 Nov, 2017 1:00 pm

Lunch Break in Exhibit Hall

16 Nov, 2017 2:00 pm

RFID Streamlines Warehouse Operations for Logistics Company

7R Logistic, a Polish-based company that operates warehouses and offers logistics services, is using RFID in a large facility to improve the efficiency of warehouse management. Financial backing by the European Union under the European Regional Development Program has allowed the firm to install a system at 7R Logistic’s Kokotów Logistics Center that can identify when each pallet is loaded into or removed from storage. With the system in place, the firm can now prevent errors, gain a more detailed inventory count of where each pallet is located, and track forklift locations. Learn how the technology’s implementation has improved visibility while standardizing the information provided in the supply chain.

16 Nov, 2017 2:45 pm

Developing an RFID Strategy for Manufacturing

RFID can deliver a great deal of benefits to manufacturers in many different areas, but without coherent strategies, companies often wind up deploying the technology piecemeal, only to find that it fails to meet their longer-term needs. This session will explain how to create a long-term strategy that can enable businesses to choose technologies that will best meet their ongoing needs across a wide variety of applications, as well as how to prioritize projects in the near term and achieve an ROI each stop along the way.

16 Nov, 2017 3:30 pm

Networking Break in Exhibit Hall

16 Nov, 2017 4:00 pm

GRP Pipe Manufacturer Uses RFID to Improve Logistics and Data Storage

FLOWTITE Technology, a Norwegian company that manufactures sewer and water pipes, is tagging its products with RFID. The firm has more than 70 plants or production lines producing glass fiber reinforced plastics (GRP) pipes. Learn how FLOWTITE is using RFID technology to maintain data on its products, enabling it to offer a 50-year guarantee period.

16 Nov, 2017 4:45 pm

RFID ROI to Brands and Manufacturers: Data Exchange and Project Zipper

RFID technology is rapidly moving up the supply chain to distribution centers and fulfillment centers. Some users have found a variety of ways in which to leverage RFID, from operational changes to the earliest emergence of item-level data exchange between supply chain partners, focusing on such high-cost issues as claims and electronic proof of delivery. The presenter will share four key points throughout a DC at which RFID can apply the most leverage, including potential hardware setups, data-capture accuracy and the real business value of increased visibility.

16 Nov, 2017 5:30 pm

Conference Concludes

16 Nov, 2017 11:30 am

River Island Uses RFID to Improve Visibility and Combat Loss

Fashion brand River Island operates more than 350 stores throughout Europe, the Philippines and the Middle East, as well as a high-traffic website that ships to more than 100 countries worldwide. This session will cover River Island’s use of RFID from its initial trial to its rollout. Hear how the trials have been implemented, the benefits and learnings the company has obtained, and how the technology is delivering value today.

16 Nov, 2017 12:15 pm

Solution-Provider Session: Active Tags – What’s the role of Bluetooth Low Energy?

Active tags are key to automated identification and location, as well as the transmission of sensor data to the edge and the cloud. Active RFID has opened the market, with Wi-Fi, ZigBee, Thread and other protocols occupying their particular niches. While Bluetooth and BLE started out in the consumer space, they are rapidly entering established industrial applications. What does the future hold for Bluetooth in the active tag market? Steffen von Buenau, the product strategist at Kontakt.io, a leader in Bluetooth beacons and tags, will discuss recent trends and outline what is in store for the wider active tag market.

16 Nov, 2017 1:00 pm

Lunch Break in Exhibit Hall

16 Nov, 2017 2:00 pm

Preparing for the Technology-Enabled Future of Retail

Retail is changing, as everyone knows. Social media and ubiquitous connectivity are driving new shopping habits and new consumer expectations. This session will focus on how companies can manage the transition to a new retailing paradigm in a way that is both meaningful and doable. Gain an understanding of the technologies that will enable this change, including RFID, as well as how stores will be reconfigured to serve new shopping habits and how the data-integrated supply chain is going to change. Dr. Hardgrave will share logical, business-driven steps to meet customer expectations and achieve real transformation.

16 Nov, 2017 2:45 pm

RFID Brings Omnichannel to Italy’s Store of the Future

Italian footwear retailer Store of the Future (SOTF) is using an EPC ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) RFID-based system to bring more personalized service to customers as they try on shoes, while also enabling omnichannel sales. Customers can automatically view content about a particular pair of shoes and similar products as they try those shoes on, enabling them to select products not in the store and purchase them online. Learn how SOTF is using the technology to define its image as a cutting-edge business, while also bringing visibility to its inventory.

16 Nov, 2017 3:30 pm

Networking Break in Exhibit Hall

16 Nov, 2017 4:00 pm

Commercial Laundry Improves Visibility and Inventory Control With RFID

Commercial laundry and textiles rental company Fishers Services has equipped its “super laundry” in Glasgow with RFID readers to interrogate tags attached to the linens it provides to its customers, as well as on all bags and roll cages that it uses to ship those linens. This has enabled Fishers to easily view when goods are received, laundered and shipped to customers, and to thereby gain visibility into where those items are located, as well as which are delayed or may be missing. Learn how the use of passive UHF allows the laundry company to better manage its inventory of linens to prevent losses, while providing its customers with access to the collected data.

16 Nov, 2017 4:45 pm

Improving Sales Through RFID Empowered Visual Merchandising

Many retailers are currently leveraging RFID either to increase inventory accuracy at the store level or to track replenishments from the back room. Retailers can effectively use the technology to avoid out-of-stocks and expand customers’ ability to find and buy exactly what they want. Learn how retailers can exploit RFID technology to support visual merchandising and optimize windows, as well as store-area displays and corners. Gain an understanding of RFID-enabled metrics that can be used to improve store turnover per square meter ratio.

16 Nov, 2017 5:30 pm

Conference Concludes

16 Nov, 2017 5:15 pm

The Business Case for RFID in Apparel Retail

RFID Journal has conducted extensive research to understand the business case for RFID in apparel retail, and to create metrics that companies in that sector can use to determine the likely return on investment they could achieve by employing the technology. This session will walk attendees through the financial model. Everyone in attendance will receive a copy of the report on which the presentation will be based, as well as an ROI calculator they can utilize to explore the benefits they can expect to receive.

16 Nov, 2017 12:30 pm

Solution-Provider Session:The Ultimate RFID Solution Has Arrived: PervasID Launches a Fully Integrated Remote Inventory, Portal and Checkout System

Following the company’s recent launch of its patented “world first” 99%+ accurate wide-area passive RFID detection Space Ranger 9200 technology, PervasID has now launched a complete customer solution which includes an anti-theft RFID system using its Gate Ranger 9200 technology and a point-of-sale RFID system (POS Ranger). This allows retailers and other industries to not only see the stock that they have throughout a shop or building at the click of a button in real time, but also to monitor items entering and leaving the building and being checked out. It uses a network of revolutionary new flat ceiling tile antennas which are located discretely at intervals across a shop floor or stock room, and which reduces the required number of antennas by a staggering 75%. Learn how this groundbreaking ceiling tile antenna RFID reader system now achieves 99%+ detection accuracy and responsiveness, in a very cost-effective way, delivering a 12-month ROI.