AIDC 100 Truth in Technologies 2004: RFID and Bar Coding Annual Meeting and First AIDC 100 Open Forum Charles Wang Center
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1. Truth in Technologies 2004: RFID and Bar Coding Annual
Meeting and First AIDC 100 Open Forum Charles Wang Center AIDC
100
2. 8:30 - 9:00 Networking Continental Breakfast 9:00 - 9:10
Welcome and Introductions RICHARD MEYERS Chairman AIDC 100 9:10 -
9:15 Welcome Dr. YACOV SHAMASH Vice President Economic Development,
Stony Brook University 9:15 - 10:00 DoD RFID Policy KATHY SMITH
Implementation Details OSD Supply Chain Integration Office for DoD
10:00 - 10:45 RFID Passive Label Test Project MARK REBOULET USAF
AIT-PMO Chief The pilot will demonstrate the ability of a prototype
EPC (Electronic Product Code) Class 0 passive RFID Military
Shipping Label (MSL) to automatically record transportation event
transactions, 10:45 - 11:00 Break 11:00 - 11:45 Creating Successful
RFID Implementation Programs STEVEN BRAUN Marketing Manager,
Hospira Worldwide Program Definition and How Key Elements Will be
Identified 11:45 - 12:00 Moderator Summary Dr. DANIEL ENGELS
Director Auto I.D. Labs, M.I.T. JOHN HILL Principal, ESYNC 12:00 -
1:10 Networking Lunch and Luncheon Speaker 12:40 - 1:10 Business
Strategy and the RFID Challenge Dr. JOHN HAMILTON Assistant
Professor, Management Associate Director, Consortium for Supply
Chain Management The John Cook School of Business, St. Louis
University Wednesday October 20, 2004 AIDC 100 Morning Session
3. 1:15 - 2:00 Implementing RFID in a 3PL Environment JIM DEAN
Third Party Synchronization Manager of Supply Chain, Energizer
Holdings & Integration Planning DICK POCEK Director of
Logistics, Energizer Holdings 2:00 - 2:45 Panel: Is EPC Really
Global? RICHARD REES An International Perspective President,
Scanology; Boxmeer, The Netherlands - Current non-UHF Installed
Base JOHN GREAVES - Euro Power & Spectrum Limitations Deloitte
Global RFID Technology Integration - The Future 2:45 - 3:30 The
Emperor Has No Clothes! CRAIG HARMON President Q.E.D. Systems A
review of contentious and real-world compliance issues - Both
commercial and government 3:30 - 4:00 Networking Break 4:00 - 5:00
Executive Technology Provider Perspective: TOM MILLER Panel
Discussion and Attendee Participation President, Intermec
Technologies - Are we ready? MICHAEL LOWRY - Technology barriers
President & CEO, Lowry Computer Products - Lessons learned
KEVIN JOST President & CEO, Hand Held Products STEPHEN
LAMBRIGHT Sr. Vice President, Savi Technology 5:00 - 5:15 Editorial
Summary MARK ROBERTI Founder and Editor, RFID Journal 5:15 Wrap Up
RICHARD MEYERS Chairman AIDC 100 Afternoon Session AIDC 100
4. Paul and Elisabeth Berg got everyone started in the right
direction! What a team!
5. Kathy Smith, OSD Steve Braun, Hospira John Hill, ESYNC Dr.
Daniel Engels, M.I.T. Let the festivities begin! Mark Reboulet,
USAF Dr. Yacov Shamash Stony Brook University
6. Dick Pocek and Jim Dean, Energizer Craig Harmon QED Systems
Richard Rees, Scanology John Greaves, Deloitte Mark Roberti RFID
Journal
7. Speaker Wall of Fame Dr. Yacov Shamash Vice President, Stony
Brook University John Hill Principal, ESYNC Dr. Daniel Engels
Director, Auto ID Labs, M.I.T. Kathy Smith Special Assistant, OSD
Mark Reboulet Chief, USAF AIT-PMO Steve Braun Marketing Manager,
Hospira
8. Speaker Wall of Fame Dick Pocek Director Logistics,
Energizer Jim Dean Manager Supply Chain, Energizer Richard Rees
President, Scanology John Greaves Consultant, Deloitte Dr. John
Hamilton Assistant Professor, St. Louis University Mark Roberti
Founder & Editor, RFID Journal Craig Harmon President, QED
Systems
9. Steve Lambright, Vice President Savi Technology Kevin Jost,
President & CEO Hand Held Products Tom Miller, President &
CEO Intermec Technologies Mike Lowry, President & CEO Lowry
Computer Products Steve Lambright Vice President Savi Technology
Kevin Jost President & CEO Hand Held Products Mike Lowry
President & CEO Lowry Computer Products Tom Miller President
Intermec Technologies Wall of Fame Panel
10. This forum attracted more than 100 who turned out to be a
very attentive and involved audience!
11. Dr. John Hamilton, St. Louis University during a special
luncheon session
12. Bar Codes Expected To Have A Long Life October 21, 2004
Despite all the noise about the impact of radio-frequency
identification technology on retailers and their suppliers,
well-entrenched bar codes will continue to play a vital role for
many years. That was the consensus of executives attending a "Truth
in Technologies 2004: RFID and Bar Codes" conference at Stony Brook
University on Long Island Wednesday, which was hosted by the AIDC
100, a nonprofit organization of automatic identification and data
capture professionals. For nearly 10 years, the U.S. Department of
Defense has been using Savi Technology Inc.'s active RFID tags on
freight containers, consolidated air pallets, and large engine
containers shipped to its sites. Active tags, unlike passive tags,
have batteries built into them. Now, as part of a mandate that
takes effect in January, the Defense Department is asking its
suppliers to affix passive RFID tags on cases and pallets they ship
to key receiving sites, the Defense Distribution San Joaquin center
in California, and the Defense Distribution Susquehanna center in
Pennsylvania. The department wants to take advantage of RFID's
benefits, including the fact that RFID tags can be re-used and
don't have to be positioned directly under scanners, in
line-of-sight positions, to be read. Nonetheless, the Defense
Department says it will continue to use bar-code technology. "We
feel that bar codes have done a good job so far, but we want the
re-usable read/write capabilities and the automated visibility that
isn't possible with bar codes," said Kathy Smith, special assistant
of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Supply Chain Integration
office with the Department of Defense. "However, bar codes aren't
going away; we'll just be using RFID in cases where line of site is
questionable, where read/write is required, where unattended
scanning is desired, and during simultaneous reading and
identification of multiple tags." Smith told conference attendees
that the Defense Department will require that two-dimensional bar
codes be used on military shipping labels in addition to the RFID
tags on cases and pallets. Two-dimensional bar codes are more
advanced than traditional bar codes. They can store more characters
and don't require line-of-sight readings. By 2007, the Defense
Department will require these bar codes on unique items such as
circuit boards, critical parts, and on items valued at $5,000 or
more, Smith said. All three technologies--active RFID tags, passive
RFID tags, and two-dimensional bar codes--will complement each
other, Smith said. Similar to the Department of Defense, the U.S.
Air Force has been tagging freight containers with active RFID tags
at the Military Ocean Terminal at Sunny Point, N.C., for the past
three years. Although active RFID tags have proven successful, Mark
Reboulet, automated identification technology manager of the Air
Force Material Command, said it's unclear how active RFID tags will
behave in the ammunition environment. The Air Force will begin a
project on Nov. 8 to test passive RFID. But the Air Force isn't
going to depend solely on RFID. "Our hand-held readers will have a
bar-code capability and every RFID label will have a readable bar
code in the back of it. So, if an RFID tag fails, we will have a
bar code to fall back on," he said.
13. For its November RFID test, the Air Force has purchased
5,000 class 0 tags from Matrics Inc. to put on boxes shipped from
the U.S. to a base in Germany, where readers have been installed.
Reboulet said the Air Force is only purchasing 5,000 class 0 tags
because it plans to use next-generation RFID tags instead, as soon
as they're available . Energizer Holdings Inc. is working with its
third-party logistics provider, Exel Logistics, part of NFC plc, to
implement RFID. Although Energizer has seen success with class 0
and class 0+ tags, the company isn't expecting to see a return on
its RFID investment for a long time, Dick Pocek, director of
logistics at Energizer, told conference attendees. Energizer won't
change its use of bar codes near term, he said, and the company's
internal projects will continue as scheduled, using bar codes. "As
we move product down the conveyer line, we want to verify that the
RFID tag is a working tag and verify it against our bar codes,
which unlike RFID, have proven to be 100% successful," said Pocek.
While the Air Force and Energizer see RFID and bar codes as
co-existing technologies, Hospira Worldwide Inc., a specialty
pharmaceuticals and medication-delivery company, is still making a
transition from linear bar codes to reduced-space symbology (RSS)
bar codes and said it isn't ready for RFID. Traditionally, Hospira
has used standard UCC.EAN-128 linear bar codes, but they're too
large to fit on injectable and intravenous-solution products. The
company recently adopted the newer reduced-space symbology for
bar-coding those types of products because it allows all
information to fit in an area as small as a pen cap. The technology
has been successfully tested; now Hospira must replace drug codes
on injectable and I.V. solution products with RSS. In the
health-care industry, RFID may be useful for patient identification
and for locating pumps, equipment, and drugs. But there are plenty
of hurdles. RF waves could interfere with equipment such as
pacemakers, and RFID tags can't always be read through liquid
solutions, said Steven Braun, marketing manager at Hospira. RFID
tags still cost too much, and the health-care industry, known to
lag behind others when it comes to IT, may not be prepared for such
a leading-edge technology as RFID. "Hospitals aren't ready to adopt
RFID from a financial perspective and because of the hospital IT
infrastructure. They're barely ready for bar-coding," said Braun.
"I see in 10 to 20 years bar-coding still being used at hospitals,
as opposed to RFID." A complete transition to RFID will take
between 10 and 15 years, according to Dr. John Hamilton, assistant
professor of management and management information systems at the
John Cook School of Business at St. Louis University. That means
companies implementing the technology will need to make important
strategic decisions and not look at RFID simply as the technology
that will solve supply-chain problems. "RFID implementation will
take a long time, which means bar codes aren't going away. They
both must co-exist in order to serve different user needs,"
Hamilton said. Richard Meyers, Chairman of the AIDC 100, agreed.
Companies implementing RFID shouldn't look for ways to replace bar
codes with RFID, he told conference attendees. Instead, they should
identify the supply-chain problem and select the technology that
best solves that problem. "I don't see an end date for the use of
bar-coding," he said. "Bar codes are a viable, cheap technology
driven by standards and unless standards change, bar codes will
remain." by Elena Malykhina
14. Group Dinner for 60 AIDC 100
15. Karen, Mike and Mark just chillin out! Elisabeth has Kevins
attention!
16. Sprague is trying to collect from Mike! Sure looks like
everything is ok! Larry and Don feel no pain, but not sure about
Chuck!
17. Now here are some very happy people!
18.
19. The dinner must have been good! What magic was Mark
performing?
20. Thank you one and all!
21. Leadership Council dinner-meeting on October 19th
22. Leadership Council dinner-meeting on October 19th
23. Oh We also worked at our annual meeting on October 21 st !
Tom Miller and Dan Mullen of AIM presenting a proposed relationship
with the AIDC 100.
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25.
26. Members in Attendance Sprague Ackley David Allais Francis
Beck Paul Berg Chuck Biss Rick Bushnell David Collins Gabriele
Edgell Jim Fales Allan Gilligan Teddy Goldberg Mike Guillory Craig
Harmon Peter Hicks John Hill Clive Hohberger Chris Hook Cliff
Horwitz Jack Householder Chris Kapsambelis Tom Kirkham Robert
LaMoreaux Mike Lowry Chuck Mara Brian Marcel Dick Meyers Mike
Ohanian Mark Reboulet Richard Rees Larry Roberts Bob Rylander Dick
Sawyer Bonney Shuman Mike Weaver Ted Williams Bruce Wray George
Wright IV George Wright Sr.
27.
Promotion/Publicity
Rick Bushnell
Rick Morgan
Gabriele Edgell
Flyer Production/Distribution
Rick Bushnell
Gabriele Edgell
Paul Berg
Mementos
Bonnie Shuman
Paul Berg
Dave Allais
Attendance
Rick Bushnell
Dick Sawyer
Bruce Wray
Logistics
Stony Brook University
- Jason Torre
Kristen Nyitray
Meal Planning
Teddy Goldberg
Conference Materials Paul Berg Treasury Sprague Ackley Minutes LC
Meeting = Larry Roberts Forum (Notes) = John Hill Annual Meeting =
Bonnie Shuman Photography Teddy Goldberg Robbi Goldberg Bus
Organization Chuck Biss David Allais Sponsors Paul Berg Website
Larry Roberts Registration Paul Berg Larry Roberts The Team That
Made It Happen! AIDC 100
28. Special thanks to Bonney and Gabrielle
29. A TON of kudus to Teddy for all of the food arrangements
and to Robbi for all of the wonderful photographs.
30. Jason Torre University Archivist Special Collections
Department & University Archives Frank Melville, Jr. Memorial
Library Stony Brook University For an outstanding job, AIDC
100
31. George Goldberg "The AIDC 100 is an important voice for
automatic identification and data collection, both for members who
are grappling with changing standards and implementation
challenges, and for businesses that need these technologies and are
looking for an unbiased source of information. I look forward to
collaborating with the other members to help the business community
better understand how these technologies can help them cut costs
and implement efficient supply chain management. Cliff Horwitz,
Member of AIDC 100 A man with vision! 1925 - 2003
32. Truth in Technologies 2005: RFID and Bar Coding Put October
26-27, 2005 on your calendar! Charles Wang Center AIDC 100