RFID in Closed Loop Systems, a Co-operative Approach by Lund University and IKEA

Mats Johnsson is working as an associate professor at Lund University. He has also an adjunct professor position at School of Packaging at Michigan State University. Since Jan 2005 he is the head of the Department of Design Sciences, Lund University. Just recently he became the project leader of a national competence centre named NGIL, Next Generation Innovative Logistics. NGIL is a 10 year research project involving several companies and research institutes. In his research he is focusing on smart packaging and how it can be used to develop the supply chain to be more efficient. An important part of this is autoID and RFID. To evaluate and analyse the cases he is involved in he is using simulation techniques. In the long run Mats would like to help the industry to develop a better understanding for smart packaging logistics.

Lund University has all the advantages of a wide academic range and highly-qualified staff. The University offer a rich and diverse academic environment with creative links between students and teachers, international cutting-edge researchers and between university and community.

 

Lund University is Scandinavia's largest institution for education and research. It is active in Lund, Malmö and Helsingborg, and have a comprehensive global network of contacts and growing co-operation within the Öresund University.

 

The focus of Lund University is on students, teachers and researchers. Lund University believe it is important that our students realise the full significance of learning, critical thinking and creativity.

 

Lund University has eight faculties, 100 education programmes, some 100 subjects and more than 1 000 single subject courses of which around 250 are in English. There are 18 masters programmes with international recruiting.

 

The University has 42 500 students and 6 000 employees.

Lund University receives 1 600 exchange students and sends 800 abroad annually. The University has exchange agreements with more than 600 universities in more than 50 countries world-wide and has more than 400 contracts in the EU-program Erasmus.

In 2004 Lund University was host to the largest number of exchange students of all Swedish institutions of higher education. Fourteen percent of those who studied in Sweden chose Lund University.

Westin Copley, Boston, MA

March 28-29, 2006

 

The fifth event in this series - in previous years over 400 people and 45 exhibitors have attended.