Jul 07, 2020Manufacturing companies are employing radio frequency identification (RFID) and other Internet of Things (IoT)-based technologies to achieve major benefits, both in their supply chains and in their factory operations. To highlight some of the key applications and the ways in which businesses can bring new efficiencies to their organization, RFID Journal hosted its annual RFID in Manufacturing virtual event on June 30, 2020. This online event covered some of the benefits that leading manufacturing companies are achieving from utilizing the technology.
An archived recording of the presentation is now available to view on demand, and PDFs of the slides can be viewed at the links below. The presenters own the copyright to these materials, which are being offered for viewers' personal reference and should not be reused without permission. Please note that you must be a Registered or Premium Member of RFID Journal, as you will be prompted to enter your e-mail address and password before viewing the recording. (Registration is free.)
Left to right: Mark Roberti, Brandee Howe, Juho Partanen, Philippe Lallement and Jochen Renfordt
Developing an RFID Strategy for Manufacturing
RFID can deliver benefits to manufacturers in many different areas, but without coherent strategies, companies often end up deploying the technology piecemeal, only to find that it fails to meet their longer-term needs. This session explained how to create a long-term strategy that can enable a business to choose technologies that will meet its ongoing needs across a variety of applications, as well as how to prioritize projects in the near term.
Speaker: Mark Roberti, Founder and Editor, RFID Journal
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Refining Workflows with RFID: WIP Tracking for Manufacturing
As manufacturing operations restart during the pandemic, productivity and cost control are vital. This session explained how RFID-powered work-in-process (WIP) tracking can reduce waste, eliminate errors and ensure quality control throughout a company's manufacturing processes. The speaker discussed an RFID solution suitable for tracking WIP and for providing detailed visibility into production status, so that users can manage and process key data. In addition, this session explored how middleware processes and filters key data to maximize on an RFID investment.
Speaker: Brandee Howe, Account Manager, Radley Corp.
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How to Implement RFID Source Tagging in Industrial Manufacturing
Throughout 10 years of retail RFID deployments, one thing has become clear: products must be tagged at the source. But source tagging can be complex. How can a company ensure every tag functions and every serial number is correct? This session's presenter discussed best practices for source tagging, as well as how the learnings from retail source tagging can be applied to other RFID market segments, such as industrial manufacturing, the food industry and tires.
Speaker: Juho Partanen, Business Development Director, Voyantic
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RFID for Tires: Let's Get into the Heart of the IoT
The tire lifecycle is diverse and complex; it starts with manufacturing and it ends with recycling. Tire stakeholders—dealers, OEMs, retailers, retreaders, government agencies and end users—must receive relevant and specific tire data depending on their local or global use cases. This session explained how an ISO-standard approach to tire lifecycle management, based on RFID technology and GS1's EPC standard as the central keys of the tire-identification solution, has been conducted at the industry level.
Speaker: Philippe Lallement, IoT Ecosystem Intelligence, Michelin
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How Radiotag Prints and Encodes Individual RFID Tags at Multi-lane Speed
When it comes to source tagging, printing and encoding labels at the production sites of retail goods is essential. A flexible, fast system for individual RFID label publishing is required to fulfill the demand of factories. This session explored how Radiotag, with the cooperation of Voyantic, created a multi-lane RTU that allows for quick production changes of label sizes without tools and with almost no setup waste.
Speaker: Jochen Renfordt, Managing Director and Cofounder, Radiotag
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On July 14, RFID Journal will present a webinar titled Best New Products of 2020: PervasID's Flow Ranger and Printronix Auto ID's T6000e RFID Printer. Then, on Sept. 9-11, the company will host its RFID Journal LIVE! 2020 conference and exhibition in Orlando, Fla., followed by its RFID and IoT for Inventory and Warehouse Management virtual event on Oct. 13. For more information regarding these and other upcoming webinars, virtual events and face-to-face evens, visit RFID Journal's events page.
