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SUMMARY:RFID in Manufacturing: Lessons from Six Case Studies - Prof. Olive
 r Guenther
DTSTART:20091001T100000Z
DTEND:20091001T110000Z
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CONTACT:Alexandra Brintrup
DESCRIPTION:Information systems in manufacturing are traditionally based o
 n a three layer architecture consisting of an enterprise resource planning
  (ERP) \nsystem\, a manufacturing execution system (MES)\, and the shop fl
 oor IT.  Increasing requirements on flexibility and adaptability are a str
 ong \ndriver for more open architectures\, targeting a closer integration 
 of  ERP and the manufacturing floor. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)
  \nchips will play an important role in this transition - provided they  a
 re tightly integrated into existing legacy architectures. Modern \nsupply 
 chains require in particular (i) flexible mechanisms to forward customer o
 rders to the manufacturing floor\, (ii) tools to integrate \nbusiness proc
 esses of cooperating vendors in a highly dynamic fashion\, and (iii) RFID 
 infrastructures that collect and filter logistic and \nshop floor data\, t
 hen feed them into strategic IT components. This talk presents related les
 sons from six case studies conducted with small and \nmedium-size automoti
 ve and electronic suppliers.\n
LOCATION:Seminar 2\, Institute for Manufacturing\, 17 Charles Babbage Road
 \, Cambridge
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