RFID and Smart Packaging Training

RFID and Smart Packaging Training is a set of courses hosted by RFID Training scheduled for 10th - 13th November 2008 at the Hilton Dublin. It will be facilitated by Michael Pollock, an RFID professional on 00353 1 882 0000 and presented by Dr Peter Harrop FIEE, Founder and Chairman of IDTechEx.

 

Topics covered include "E-Labels, E-Packaging and Printed Electronics", "RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) Technologies and Capabilities"; "RFID in Retail" and how it can reduce costs and increase sales in retailing; and "RFID in the Transport, Logistics and Supply-chain Management sector". Choose which to attend. Participants will be informed about the new e-labels and e-packaging, whether they wish to leverage their brand, sell the devices themselves or otherwise be part of this revolution in safety, merchandising and enrichment of all packaged and labelled goods.

RFID can reduce costs, and increase sales in retailing. This course will consider how RFID benefits manufacture, shipment, stock-control, merchandising, and gathering consumer information. It will show how this is becoming a seamless RFID system including even the reverse supply chain, with huge benefits to all involved. Retailers and their suppliers of products and services ignore these advances at their peril.

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is evolving as a major technology enabler for tracking goods and assets around the world. It can help hospitals locate expensive equipment more quickly to improve patient care, pharmaceutical companies to reduce counterfeiting and logistics providers to improve the management of moveable assets. It also promises to enable new efficiencies in the supply-chain by tracking goods from the point of manufacture through to the retail point of sale.

This course will look at RFID in the transport, logistics and supply-chain management sector. It will consider how RFID benefits fleet management, shipment, distribution centres, and stock control in heavy logistics, courier and postal services. The primary emphasis will be on RFID for civil transport, logistics and supply-chain management

Printed electronics will revolutionise labels and packaging, delighting consumers and creating opportunities for premium pricing of the label, the package and the brand. E-labels and associated e-packaging will become a new market that will rise to several billion Euros in value. One of the largest markets that will be created by the new printed electronics will be for a family of electronic labels that presents information more clearly and that employs more of the human senses. However, the opportunity goes far beyond the provision of clearer instructions. It includes reusable, reconfigurable and programmable labels, some of which are responsive and interactive. Examples include:

 

The label or package that can:

 

 

Book at www.rfidtraining.ie

 

Full details are available and can be downloaded at http://www.idtechex.com/users/filedownload.asp?documentid=3370

and http://www.idtechex.com/users/filedownload.asp?documentid=3371.