AIDC 100
Charles Wang Center
Truth in Technologies 2004:
RFID and Bar Coding
Annual Meeting
and First AIDC 100 Open Forum
Wednesday October 20, 2004
AIDC 100
8:30 - 9:00
Networking Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:10
Welcome and Introductions
9:10 - 9:15
Welcome
9:15 - 10:00
DoD RFID Policy
Implementation Details
10:00 - 10:45
RICHARD MEYERS
Chairman AIDC 100
Dr. YACOV SHAMASH
Vice President Economic Development, Stony Brook University
KATHY SMITH
OSD Supply Chain Integration Office for DoD
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,
Morning
Session
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
12:00 - 1:10
12:40 - 1:10
Networking Lunch and Luncheon Speaker
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
Dr. DANIEL ENGELS
Director Auto I.D. Labs, M.I.T.
JOHN HILL
Principal, ESYNC
AIDC 100
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
5:15
Wrap Up
Afternoon
Session
MARK ROBERTI
Founder and Editor, RFID Journal
RICHARD MEYERS
Chairman AIDC 100
Paul and Elisabeth Bergé
got everyone started in the right direction!
What a team!
Let the festivities begin!
Kathy Smith, OSD
Steve Braun, Hospira
Mark Reboulet, USAF
Dr. Yacov Shamash
Stony Brook University
John Hill, ESYNC
Dr. Daniel Engels, M.I.T.
Craig Harmon
QED Systems
Dick Pocek and Jim Dean, Energizer
Mark Roberti
RFID Journal
Richard Rees, Scanology
John Greaves, Deloitte
Speaker Wall of Fame
Dr. Yacov Shamash
Vice President, Stony Brook University
Kathy Smith
Special Assistant, OSD
John Hill
Principal, ESYNC
Dr. Daniel Engels
Director, Auto ID Labs, M.I.T.
Mark Reboulet
Chief, USAF AIT-PMO
Steve Braun
Marketing Manager, Hospira
Speaker Wall of Fame
Dick Pocek
Director Logistics, Energizer
John Greaves
Consultant, Deloitte
Jim Dean
Manager Supply Chain, Energizer
Craig Harmon
President, QED Systems
Richard Rees
President, Scanology
Dr. John Hamilton
Assistant Professor, St. Louis University
Mark Roberti
Founder & Editor, RFID Journal
Tom Miller
President
Intermec Technologies
Kevin Jost
President & CEO
Hand Held Products
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
Wall of Fame Panel
Mike Lowry
President & CEO
Lowry Computer Products
Steve Lambright
Vice President
Savi Technology
This forum attracted more than 100 who turned out to
be a very attentive and involved audience!
Dr. John Hamilton, St. Louis University
during a special luncheon session
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-ofsight 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.
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
AIDC 100
Group Dinner for 60
Elisabeth
has Kevin’s
attention!
Karen, Mike and
Mark just
chillin’ out!
Sprague is
trying to collect
from Mike!
Sure looks like
everything is ok!
Larry and Don feel
no pain, but not
sure about Chuck!
Now here are
some very
happy people!
The dinner must
have been good!
What magic was
Mark performing?
Thank you one and all!
Leadership Council dinner-meeting on October 19th
Leadership Council dinner-meeting on October 19th
Oh…
We also worked
at our annual
meeting on
October 21st!
Tom Miller and Dan Mullen
of AIM presenting a
proposed relationship
with the AIDC 100.
Members in Attendance
Sprague Ackley
David Allais
Francis Beck
Paul Bergé
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.
AIDC 100
The Team
That Made
It Happen!
Promotion/Publicity
Conference Materials
Rick Bushnell
Paul Bergé
Rick Morgan
Treasury
Gabriele Edgell
Sprague Ackley
Flyer Production/Distribution
Minutes
Rick Bushnell
LC Meeting = Larry Roberts
Gabriele Edgell
Forum (Notes) = John Hill
Paul Bergé
Annual Meeting = Bonnie Shuman
Mementos
Photography
Bonnie Shuman
Teddy Goldberg
Paul Bergé
Robbi Goldberg
Dave Allais
Bus Organization
Attendance
Chuck Biss
Rick Bushnell
David Allais
Dick Sawyer
Sponsors
Bruce Wray
Paul Bergé
Logistics
Website
Stony Brook University
Larry Roberts
- Jason Torre
Registration
- Kristen Nyitray
Paul Bergé
Meal Planning
Larry Roberts
Teddy Goldberg
Special thanks to
Bonney
and
Gabrielle
A TON of kudus
to Teddy for all
of the food arrangements
and to Robbi for all
of the wonderful photographs.
AIDC 100
For an outstanding job,
Jason Torre
University Archivist
Special Collections Department & University Archives
Frank Melville, Jr. Memorial Library
Stony Brook University
George Goldberg
A man with vision!
1925 - 2003
"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
AIDC 100
Charles Wang Center
Truth in Technologies 2005:
RFID and Bar Coding
Put October 26-27, 2005 on your calendar!