Mr. Harry P. Pappas

Founder, President and CEO

International RFID Business Association, USA

Global Vision for RFID and Wireless Technologies and the Middle East

In this presentation, Mike will share his experience of working with leading executives during major RFID implementation projects around the world, including  the Wal-Mart rollouts between year 2003 and 2006.  The paper also addresses the development of various standards such as Gen2 and EPCIS. Insights from Retail, Oil and Gas, Aerospace, Healthcare, Chemicals and Logistics sectors are presented along with specific highlights on the current scenario in the Middle East.

Mr. Mike Meranda

CEO

Tagstone, UAE

RFID Trace and Track Application for Oil Field Drill Pipes Manufacturer

This session shares some of the best practices for achieving high read rates through the manufacturing processes of drill pipes and other products for the oil industry. To comply with the requirement of documenting each part’s history, this presentation will share how to implement such a system so that you can easily trace back to a specific batch of steel.

Dr. Ben Zoghi

Director, RFID/Sensor Laboratory

Texas A&M University, USA

Case Study: The End of The Gold Loan? Enabling New Financing Options for the Jewellery Industry.

Structural deficiencies in gold loans can wreak havoc on the gold jewellery industry, especially when the international price of gold fluctuates sharply. RFID has introduced the potential to phase out traditional gold loans in favour of fairer, more secure, and structurally robust financing options.

Mr. Gabriel Nasser

CEO,

TJS, UAE

Commercialization of RFID within Aerospace and Defense.

The presentation will describe the business and use cases of RFID technology that are unique to the Aerospace and Defense industry. Secondly, the development of passive, extended user memory tags for the aerospace market will be explained. Finally, the presenter will describe the progress of global interoperability and standardization and regulatory approval.

Mr. Ken D. Porad

Associate Techical Fellow

The Boeing Company, USA

Case Study: Arab Countries Postal RFID Pilot Project

Q-Post (Qatar), the quality leader in the region has launched the 1st RFID Pilot Project. The Project Pilot's objective is to test different RFID technologies live, for Quality of Service Measurement of letter mail on behalf of the 22 Arab Countries. The Pilot Project’s main purpose is to demonstrate the abilities of the different technologies within the same environment in the field of real-time monitoring networks. A hidden mail flow of almost 4000 item tests is being circulated over 3 months among the 3 matrix countries. Qatar Post is very proud to initiate and launch this project and take place in this industry on contributing at the global improvement of the entire worldwide postal community.

Ms. Catina G. Aghayan

Quality and Development Consultant

Q-Post GPC, Qatar

RFID Everywhere: Is it a reality? And When?

Moderator: Stephane Pique, European Director, EPC Global

Panel Participants: Mike Meranda, Susan Jordan, Dr. Ben Zoghi
 

RFID in the Healthcare Industry

RFID has many applications within the healthcare industry, in the areas of Supply Chain, Asset Management, Reduction of Medical Errors as well as Research and Development. But the healthcare industry is a complex environment, with many complex electronic devices and RF systems. In this presentation, Dan talks about the opportunities and challenges of deploying RFID within the healthcare environment.

Dr. Daniel Engels

Former Research Director

Auto-ID Labs

MIT, USA

Case Study: RIFD on item level at a Kaufhof Department Store

Galeria Kaufhof, the department store division of Metro Group, has outfitted an entire floor of its department store in Essen, Germany, 60 RFID interrogators, with a total of more than 200 antennas, capture data from RFID transponder in hangtags or adhesive label on more than 30,000 individual articles. The transponders use Electronic Product Code (EPC) Gen2 standards and communicate using UHF technology. The main focus are customer related applications to highlight the customer benefits.

In his presentation Uwe will describe how the technology works, what processes are supported by RFID and he will show first results about advantages and challenges by using RFID.

Mr. Uwe Quiede

Project Manager, RFID

Kaufhof Warenhaus AG, Germany

Delivering Value Through EPC Global Standards

• About EPC Global

• The Need for Global Standards

• Current Standards

• Tangible Results

• Case Studies

• Summary

Mr. Ziad Al Habbal

CEO

GS1 - EPC Global, UAE

The presentation is a case study on the implementation of the Time & Attendance solution for Thermo LLC, a leading Construction Company in UAE, using RFID technology at Dubai International Airport expansion Terminal 3 project. The paper will also highlight the problems faced during implementation as well as the features and benefits of the system, and will outline views from workers and managers onsite.

Mr. Michael Jamieson
Director

Absolute IT, UAE

Mr. Harry P. Pappas

Founder, President and CEO

International RFID Business Association, USA

RFID enables to get better control and visibility over assets. You will get an introduction on how RFID enables real-time track and trace. It gives the capability for unprecedented visibility into the movement, location and disposition of assets. The data captured at each read point provides the WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE and WHY of each event. Asset management is one of the key and fastest growing application to use RFID.

Mr. Stephane Pique

European Director, EPC/RFID

GS1 Europe, Belgium

RFID Deployment, an Interesting Ride!

Testing a wide variety of RFID solutions over the years, TNT’s conclusion is clear; the technology works, the opportunities are there and the benefits real.

If this is true, why so many companies are still hesitant? What does it take to move from proprietary local initiatives to full Supply Chain adoption? Does the tag price still need to go down? Is infrastructure cost too high? Is Business focus too much on short term versus long term financial gains or do we have to overcome the normal innovation related change management issues?

Mr. Sybren Tuinstra

Global Manager, Strategic Innovation

TNT Express, Netherlands

With international defence budgets in decline, Nations are constantly struggling to support their National and international security and humanitarian mission goals. For more than 17 years, Savi has been providing multi-national forces with asset and consignment visibility solutions that not only enhance their operational effectiveness but also significantly reduce their logistics costs.

Mr. Iain Bell

Sales Director

Savi Technology, USA

• A single RFID solution for RFID within the tyre industry
• Experience and case studies from Michelin
• The practical aspects, challenges and opportunities for item level tagging
• Relationship among the various standards as well as business issues

Dr. Patrick King

Global Electronics Strategist

Michelin

USA

RFID Implementation Projects: Is there a recipe for Success?

Moderator: Harry P. Pappas, Founder, President and CEO

Panel Participants: Dr. Patrick King, Dr. Dan Engels, Lucas Ahlstrom
 

Case Study: RFID Technology - Research and Education initiative in Saudi Arabia

This paper will focus on the future of RFID as a ubiquitous tool to increase the revenue of manufacturing processes in the industrial world, and the experience of KFUPM University as the first university in the region to establish a Smart Card & RFID lab. The paper also presents a fully integrated working software/hardware prototype of a smart warehouse utilizing a low cost RFID development kit with passive tags.

Dr. Wasim Raad

Head of Smartcard & RFID Lab

KFUPM University, Saudi Arabia

RFID in the Production line, from Raw material through final delivery

All the way from raw material selection to processing and final delivery of products, RFID & Control Systems can be widely used within the Manufacturing and Maintenance Processes. The RFID can verify and/or prevent activities in the process. In the preventive and predictive maintenance applications RFID is used for, not only a record of the work carried out, but also total asset management made extremely easy.

Mr.Lucas Ahlstrom

CTO

RFIG Sweden AB, Sweden

Case Study: The benefits of RFID based solutions for Car Dealerships

Real-time locating of vehicles inside the Car Service Center as well as outside on the parking lot is vital for fast and accurate execution of the service procedure. The case study will feature a system to locate and identify vehicles in an 800 vehicle, world class auto-dealership. Also the importance of focusing on event data, not just basic read data, is being discussed.

Mr. Faisal Al Gharabally

Director of Corporate Strategy and Industry Development

Tagstone, UAE

RFID technology has been implemented to 7 sites of Dubai Public Libraries and will be implemented also in new library branches under construction. More than 300000 library material including books, videos, CD-ROM's, and others has been tagged and programmed with RFID tags. Achievements include automating flow of library holdings; facilitate library circulation process (check in/out) as well as saving efforts, time and money especially in stocktaking. Therefore, accuracy, efficiency and quality of services have been improved.

Mr. Emad Abu Eid

Library Specialist

Dubai Municipality, UAE

• Adoption of Standards
• Educational Requirements
• Challenges to Overcome
• Concerns on Return on Investment
• Project Management Elements