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Gold/Lead Sponsor
IDTechEx is delighted
to announce that Avery Dennison
is the Gold Sponsor of RFID Smart Labels USA 2006
At Avery Dennison RFID, we offer high-volume, high-quality, RFID inlays, including a robust portfolio of EPC Gen 2 products. We design, test and produce superior tags for companies seeking to realize the full benefits of RFID in supply chain and item-level applications. rfid.averydennison.com
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Silver Level Sponsors
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Emerson
& Cuming For over 50 years, Emerson
& Cuming's focus has been on designing and manufacturing high
performance material solutions for electronic industries around
the world. Our expansive breadth of encapsulant, adhesive, and thermal
management technologies combined with our decades of experience
allow us to create solutions to difficult electric and electronic
engineering challenges, providing maximum design latitude for our
customers. Our vision is to be your first choice for circuit and
component assembly solutions in the broadest sense.
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Omron Corporation,
a global leading RFID products manufacturer, provides V740 series
UHF EPC inlays and reader/writer. The reader/writer supports both
EPC class 0 and class 1 protocols ( upgradable to Gen2).
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Parelec
develops, manufactures and markets Parmod® VLT
conductive inks and pastes. Parmod® inks differ from other conductive
inks in that their patented chemistry uses silver or other metals
more efficiently to provide for 3-5 times greater conductivity and
lower cost. Parmod® silver inks are applied by screen, rotary-screen
or gravure printing processes on paper or polyester substrates to
provide low cost RFID antenna with read distance equivalent to traditional
etched antenna. www.parelec.com
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Symbol's comprehensive
solutions for radio frequency identification (RFID) enable you to
advance your business to a new level of efficiency, instantly see
what's happening in your supply chain and make informed business decisions
more quickly. www.symbol.com |
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ThingMagic, Inc. Founded
in 2000 and based in Cambridge, MA, ThingMagic is a leading developer
of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. Mercury4T,
ThingMagic's fourth generation agile RFID reader, builds on and
substantially enhances the company's original platform created for
early field tests of the Electronic Product Code (EPC).
www.thingmagic.com |
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Emerging RFID Technologies Session Sponsor
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Motorola is a Fortune 100 global communications leader that provides seamless mobility products and solutions across broadband, embedded systems and wireless networks. Seamless mobility means you can reach the people, things and information you need in your home, auto, workplace and all spaces in between. Seamless mobility harnesses the power of technology convergence and enables smarter, faster, cost-effective and flexible communication. Motorola had sales of US $31.3 billion in 2004. www.motorola.com
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Publication Sponsor
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Rexam is one of the world's top five consumer packaging groups and the world's leading beverage can maker. We serve the Beverage, Beauty, Pharmaceuticals and Food markets with more than 90 manufacturing operations in over 20 countries. In local markets across the world, we help shape the experiences consumers have with our customers' brands... helping to create the packaging that people want today and to evolve solutions to meet their future needs. Read their 2005/6 packaging innovation report here.
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Bronze Level Sponsors
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Bielomatik, a
pioneer in RFID, is considered the leader amongst high capacity UHF
and HF laminating machine suppliers. Lowest cost per unit, highest
possible product quality level and high output are the distinguishing
features of bielomatik's laminating solutions for the production of
Smart Labels, Tags and Tickets. www.bielomatik.com
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Cabot are
experts in (1) Making and handling fine particles, (2) Modifying the
surfaces of very fine particles, and (3) Designing particle-media
composites for specific properties.
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Cavanagh Consulting Group helps companies identify and implement best-of-breed IT security solutions. CCG specializes in security specific to Compliance, Networks and RFID. IT security is a complex market, with thousands of products and services available. We help companies select the correct will fit for their existing environment, reduce the need to assign internal resources and educate these resources on the complex and difficult task of finding the right solution.
www.cavanaghcg.com |
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Coveme was founded in 1965 and
since then it is specialized in the production of high performance
films having developed exclusive process technologies of surface treatments,
multilayer coating, lamination and heat stabilization. www.coveme.com |
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Datacon Technology GmbH
(member of Besi group) is one of the leading and most innovative
providers of assembly equipment for the semiconductor industry and is
ahead of the field when it comes to new technologies such as Flip Chip
and RFID. Datacon offers a complete, dedicated assembly line to
manufacture RFID tags with the lowest possible cost of ownership. The
8800 FC Smart Line is supporting both antennae (inlay) and strap
assembly processes. Datacon plans to offer line solutions for RFID
chip assembly that will reduce chip assembly costs to 0.1 cent/bond by
2007.
www.datacon.at
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Delo has nearly 45 years of experience
in the field of industrial adhesives. DELO has been working in the
smart card sector with several proven records of success: The DELO
products for the flip-chip industry enable secure electrical contacting
and very short production times; opaque chip encapsulation compounds
protect the chip against unauthorized viewing and copying; the Dam&Fill
method patented by DELO enables defined geometries as well as minimum
encapsulation heights. www.delo.de
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Dow Corning is
a global provider of innovative materials and solutions, advanced
applications technologies and unique services to the entire electronics
chain - from silicon manufacturing and semiconductor fabrication to
device packaging and complete module and system assembly.
www.dowcorning.com/electronics
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DuPont Teijin Films® is
the world's premier producer of polyester films, with combined sales
of about $1.4 billion and production capacity over 300,000 tons per
year. DuPont Teijin Films, now the world's leading supplier of PET and
PEN polyester films, specializes in film products and related services
for the specialty, industrial, packaging and advanced magnetic media
and photo systems, electrical and electronics markets. Brand names
include Mylar®, Melinex®, and Teijin® Tetoron® PET polyester film,
Teonex® PEN polyester film, and Cronar® polyester photographic base
film. The business includes existing joint ventures with DuPont-Hongji
Films Foshan Co.,Ltd., in China.
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IDTechEx
provides independent analysis on the development
and application of RFID, smart packaging and printed electronics.
www.idtechex.com |
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IER, subsidiary of Bolloré Group, develops
solutions to optimize operational efficiency and enhance security in
flow processing of people, vehicles and goods in the transportation
and logistics industries. IER is the world
leading designer and manufacturer of ticketing, self-service, boarding
control solutions and access control equipment for the major
transportation networks (air, rail, sea). IER is
also one of the world leaders in secure access control equipment for
building, public transportation networks and public or sensitive
facilities, for pedestrians and vehicle traffic and a major European
distributor of automatic identification, mobile computing hardware and
custom supply chain management software.
www.ier.fr |
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IntelligentzT Corporation
www.intelligentz.net |
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Intune sets a new tone in the RFID
antenna market. We are an established global company that specializes
entirely in manufacturing high volume, low-cost RFID antennas. Our aim
is to become the global market leader in the mass production of RFID
antennas and to lead the way in their technological development.
www.intunecircuits.com |
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Kester Founded in 1899, Kester is a
leading global supplier of high performance connecting and
interconnecting materials and related services for the electronic
assembly and component assembly markets. Kester is known for high
quality, advanced technology and superior technical support. With
headquarters in Des Plaines, IL, Kester has additional manufacturing
facilities in the United States, Mexico, Canada, Singapore, Germany,
Japan, Brazil, Taiwan, Malaysia and China. Its worldwide manufacturing
and technical capabilities provide the support required to serve major
electronics manufacturing services providers, electronic component
manufacturers and OEMs.
www.kester.com |
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Melzer GMbh Building on their
expertise in the smart card manufacturing sector, Melzer introduced
the SL series of smart label, tag, and ticket production equipment in
2000. Using a patented inlay inspection and selection process, the SL
is now the world's top selling RFID integration solution for smart
labels.
www.melzergmbh.com |
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Microclean Technologies
has a range of cost-effective contact cleaning solutions which can
trap and remove loose particulates as small as one micron in size.
These solutions have been proven in the field with some of the world's
leading labelling, printing, electronics, food and biomedical
companies. Please visit Microclean on the Staticclean booth 33 to see
a demo of the equipment and discuss your requirements.
www.microcleantech.com |
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Moxa Technologies is
part of the Moxa Group, a conglomerate that manufactures device networking
products for industrial automation. Information about all Moxa products,
which include industrial Ethernet switches, serial device servers,
multiport serial cards, and embedded device servers, is available
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Multek
provides industry leading development and manufacturing capabilities
across the complete spectrum of PCB requirements, ranging from extreme
miniaturization through extremely large high-speed back-planes.
Supported by a global business network, with extensive research and
design capability and the strictest commitment to quality, safety and
standards, plus our pro-active world-class sales and marketing team in
each major business region across the globe in US, Germany, UK &
Brazil, Multek is renowned as a one-stop PCB solution provider for all
global customers.
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Mühlbauer is
a global, independent consultant and manufacturer of turnkey automation
solutions for the smart card, smart label, semiconductor backend and
vision industries. In addition, the company is active in the areas
of precision parts and OEM production. With about 1,320 employees
in 19 locations on five continents, Mühlbauer is a leading supplier
of production equipment for the smart card industry.
www.muehlbauer.de
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ODIN technologies
ODIN technologies is the industry leader in the physics of RFID infrastructure testing, deployment and certification. Our physics based RFID expertise has been employed by more Wal-Mart, DoD and Target suppliers than any other RFID-focused integrator.
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Paru
is a leading developer of polymer based
conductive ink and technology to produce low-cost printed electronics
such as anti-theft tag, RFID tag, flash memory and etc. We are
starting new business applying these technologies. At first we will
launch EAS (Electric Article Surveillance) system, which is consist of
printed polymer circuit and replacing conventional metal tags.
Secondly we will launch World's First printed RFID tag, which made
from 100% polymer electronic chips including its antenna. This polymer
RFID tags combine the advantages of fast, cheap and flexible
electronics. Thirdly we will expend our marketing field to other
printed electronics such as flash memory, flexible display, OLED, fuel
cell and etc.
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PolyIC
is a leading developer of polymer electronics technology and a future
provider of printed electronic products and components. PolyIC will
provide products for high volume low cost applications based on
organic semiconductors.
www.polyIC.com |
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PrisymID provide over 20 years of experience in barcode, labelling, RFID and print solutions for professional environments www.prisymid.com |
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SIMCO Industrial Static Control To protect RFID tags, SIMCO manufactures several products to control static charges.
www.simco-static.com |
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SKC is a world
leader in polyester films. The company produces its Skyrol ® brand
of polyester films in both the United States and Asia.
www.skcfilms.com |
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Smart
Holograms is pioneering a new technology
("sensor holograms") to develop innovative, non-invasive and multi-analyte
diagnostics for applications in the development of "Advanced Systems
for Disease Diagnosis and Management". These devices are mainly
being commercialized in the areas of monitoring metabolic (e.g.
diabetes) and infectious (e.g. microbial) diseases and in applications
for infection control.
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Static Clean International
RFID tags and labels and Static Electricity don't mix,
so Static Clean International offers products that not only address
the potential problem of static damaging or destroying the information
carried on the chip, it also has process control equipment to clean
the label stock of debris. From MicroClean Contact Cleaners, WebVacs,
Static Bars and Ionizing Air Blowers, Static Clean can reduce the risk
of damage and downtime.
www.staticclean.com
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STOPSTATIC.COM
We offer the simple solution to protect RFID devices
from electro-static discharge, esd. RFID devices can be sensitive to
electro-static discharge (esd). We are exhibiting the new ion360 Rods,
a new patented technology, which dissipates static without contact.
www.stopstatic.com
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Tagsys
designs, manufactures, integrates end-to-end RFID
infrastructure for e-connecting goods.
www.tagsys.net
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Tagsense
Founded in March 2000 as an MIT start-up company,
TagSense was originally formed as a developer of innovative low cost
RFID and sensor technologies for the toy industry. Building on its
experience with low-cost design and electromagnetic materials,
TagSense has since grown to provide RFID technology and consulting
services to a wide variety of industries and companies worldwide.
TagSense currently has offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where it
maintains facilities for electronics prototyping, antenna design, and
electromagnetic testing.
www.tagsense.com
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UPM Rafsec is
a world leading RFID tag manufacturer and pioneer of the EPC standard,
specialized in low-cost and high-volume production.
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XINK's InstacureT advanced conductive and resistive flexographic and gravure formulations allow printing of complex electronic circuitry for Intelligent and Active Packaging (IAP) applications, including flexible paper sensors (package security), sensor grids (pharmaceutical smart packaging), keypads (electronic paper diaries, access cards), and UHF and HF EPC RFID antennas. www.xink.biz
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"RFID in Action 2006" RFID case study sponsors
Written by IDTechEx and GS1 UK, the RFID in Action 2006 report will be exclusively launched at RFID Smart Labels USA 2006, with every delegate receiving their own copy. This covers progress with global RFID case studies and it is supported by the following companies.
Association Sponsors
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RFID China
Alliance is the only non-profit industrial association on RFID in
China. The Alliance, comprised of RFID chip, label, middleware,
reader, and printer solution providers, was founded on Nov 5, 2005,
under the leadership of the Ministry of Information Industry (MII) of
the People's Republic of China. RFID China Alliance's core
responsibility is to promote RFID's industrial development in China,
and help member companies to be up-to-date on RFID Chinese
governmental policy, latest technological developments, and conduct
effective marketing activities while exploring cooperation
opportunities.
www.rfidchina.org
We are proud to have this alliance as an association sponsor of RFID Smart Labels USA 2006. They will be attending - with Chinese companies- and provide an update of
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AIM Global For
more than 30 years, AIM Global has served as the association for
and worldwide authority on automatic identification, data collection
and networking in a mobile environment. AIM members are providers
and users of technologies, systems, and services that capture, manage,
and integrate accurate data into larger information systems.
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RFID Tribe, a
global organization with local chapters, is a radio frequency identification
(RFID) collaboration forum. The group of industry experts collaborates
on RFID and sensor technology, standards, venture capital, products,
solutions, industry trends, people and events. RFID Tribe serves as
an engine for ideas, people and capital. www.rfidtribe.com
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SAL-C The Smart Active
Labels (SAL) Consortium is a non-profit international interest group,
established in 2002, intended to develop the use of smart active label
technologies in a number of industries and to demonstrate new and
improved solutions targeted at the specific needs described by end
users.
www.sal-c.org
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Become an association
partner: email Sarah Lee s.lee@idtechex.com
Media Partners
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The China Supply Chain Council (CSCC) is a leading community of 10,000 professionals dedicated to continually improving the professional abilities, progressing in careers, sharing information and resources, uniting as a community, setting standards for excellence, building credibility in the supply chain sector, and (best of all) having fun. For more info, visit: www.supplychain.cn |
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Converting Magazine will distribute free copies of its March 2006 issue featuring a series of articles on flexographic printing by today's top packaging converters. Converting Magazine is the industry's authoritative print and electronic voice, serving package printers' technical and business information needs. Converting has the largest circulation to the industry: 42,966. www.convertingmagazine.com |
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Data Collection Online
's reference
library and weekly e-newsletter
service focus on the automatic identification and data collection
(AIDC) industry. Manufacturers, resellers, and system integrators
of bar code and RFID technologies are prominently featured on this
Web site. Locate providers of fixed and handheld mobile computing
devices (and supporting infrastructure) for printing and scanning
bar code labels and RFID tags in our supplier directory. Download
product specifications through the product showcase and case studies
and white papers from the download library.
Please take a moment to join
our community and discover the benefits of your free membership.
For more information, view our editorial
calendar for the list of topics we cover.
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EuroTag is an independent educational
forum for the RFID industry (from vendors through to users), offering
its members an in-depth understanding of the various types of RFID/tagging
products and technologies as they arrive in this busy market sector.
EuroTag also clarifies the standards that are emerging to govern the
operation of these products. In particular, EuroTag addresses the
harmonisation of European tagging initiatives, and ensure that the
right degree of interoperability exists between products and across
borders.
www.eurotag.org
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Ink Maker
has a proud history of 81 years of serving the printing
ink and color industries. The editorial content consists of
contributed technical papers and nontechnical features about trends,
technology and global happenings to help our readers to improve their
profitability. It is the only magazine in the ink industry that
features a monthly interview with printers-the ink manufacturers'
customer.
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Integrated Solutions Magazine shows organizations how to capture, generate, and retrieve data at all points of work and service through the supply chain. We educate IT decision makers about RFID and related technologies that drive business performance – and revenue – by eliminating boundaries of time, distance, and scale. Integrated Solutions covers all RFID applications, ranging from active tag asset tracking to the latest EPCglobal initiatives. www.IntegratedSolutionsmag.com |
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Int'l
Packaging News for China Working with the
North America packaging title Packaging World, Int'l Packaging
News for China is the first international publication in
China that caters exclusively to manufacturing companies who package
(in house or through contract packaging companies) food, beverage,
pharmaceuticals, cosmetic, chemicals, industrial products and so
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Int'l Package
Printing & Converting News for China Working
with the prestigious magazine Converting Today from the UK ,
Int'l Package Printing & Converting News for China
provides in depth coverage of the latest package printing and converting
technology from around the world to the Chinese converters and package
printers. URL |
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Label & Narrow Web Label & Narrow Web magazine (circulation 10,500+) is devoted to the global manufacture of labels and other products using narrow web technology, and covers business trends, technologies, products, and events. www.labelandnarrowweb.com |
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Label
Shimbun is a leading Japanese label newspaper.
www.labelshimbun.com/englishtop.htm
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MoreRFID.com is a
leading global information provider of RFID news, report, articles,
and events. Currently MoreRFID.com operates both English and Chinese
sites.
www.morerfid.com
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packagePRINTING
reaches more packaging converters who print flexible packaging,
folding cartons, tags and labels, specialty printing, and corrugated
containers. As the only publication dedicated to the printing of
packaging, we reach more than 25,175 professionals at more than 14,900
individual plant locations-accounting for more than 92 percent of the
$84 billion U.S. Market.
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Plastics in Packaging
As flexible and rigid plastics increasingly become the packaging materials
of choice, Plastics in Packaging is the only global publication dedicated
to the plastics packaging industry. It is aimed at bringing together
those who buy, those who sell and those who make plastics packaging.
Published monthly, and with a daily updated news service at www.plasticsinpackaging.com,
it reports exclusively on resins, flexible and rigid packaging and
machinery. |
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RFIDinfo.jp offers the latest
information on the RFID smart label market in Japanese.
www.rfidinfo.jp |
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RFID International
is a bi-weekly publication providing industry
players in over 35 countries with concise, accurate coverage of
the radio frequency technology industries throughout the world.
www.rfidinternational.com
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RFiD Society The RFiD Society is an internationally oriented and independent knowledge centre for RFID, based in The Netherlands. A non-profit approach and the legal structure of a foundation assure our independence.
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RFID
Solutions Online 's
reference
library and weekly e-newsletter
service focus on incorporating RFID technology into data collection,
asset management, and supply chain track and trace solutions. We
feature both closed loop solutions as well as emerging open loop
applications for the retail supply chain. Visit regularly to stay
abreast of industry mandates and the evolving EPC Network standards
upon which they are based. Locate providers of tags and labels,
readers and printers, middleware, and integration services in our
supplier directory. Download specifications through the product
showcase and case studies and white papers from the download library.
Please take
a moment to join
our community and discover the benefits of your free membership.
For more information, view our editorial
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RFID Update publishes
daily editorial briefings for the growing ranks of top level executives
involved in the deployment of RFID projects. Each issue distills the
impact of global RFID developments into an analytical summary of the
matters most pertinent to successful RFID implementation. Free sign
up for executives, visit: www.rfidupdate.com
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RFID
World China is a
professional RFID website in China, provides RFID-related information
about the latest news, technological trend, companies and products.
www.rfidworld.com.cn
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RFID
Weblog is an online media publication serving
executives, researchers and others who follow RFID. As
an alternative citizen media publication, we do not duplicate mainstream
media reports, but instead add value through: -
Information not widely published elsewhere - A
common sense, balanced approach to controversial issues - Resources
such as research reports, PowerPoint presentations, government regulations,
and citizen experiences with and opinions of RFID
www.rfid-weblog.com
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Supply & Demand Chain Executive is the executive's user manual for successful supply chain transformation, utilizing hard-hitting analysis, viewpoints and unbiased case studies to steer executives and supply management professionals through the complicated, yet critical, world of supply and demand chain enablement to gain competitive advantage. www.SDCExec.com. |
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Supply
Chain Systems magazine (SCS) covers
the emerging trends, best business practices, and the implementation
and integration of manufacturing and logistics solutions into complete,
end-to-end systems that enable companies to achieve their business
goals. SCS is the only magazine that covers the solutions and practices
that enable functional and cross-functional excellence necessary
for manufacturers to succeed in today's global economy.
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UsingRFID provides
free daily news reports and informative articles about RFID technology
and its applications, users, developers, trials, and implications.
From the publisher of heavyweight research reports such as The Loyalty
Guide 2004, this online publication simply aims to give technology
executives and developers the pure facts without any hype, commercial
bias, banners, or pop-ups. www.UsingRFID.com |
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