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RFID in Fashion

Saturday, August 2, 2008

Dates: August 13 - 14, 2008
Venue: The Fashion Institute of Technology
Location: New York, New York
URL: http://www.rfidjournalevents.com/fashion/
Contact: RFID Journal Events Contact, click here

Description: Learn how you can use RFID technologies to achieve real business benefits today

Savvy retailers in the United States, Europe & Asia are using radio frequency identification (RFID) technologies every day to cut costs and boost sales. Advances in RFID are reducing deployment costs and making it easier to track in-store inventory.


At this year’s event you’ll find out how leading retailers are using RFID to:

  • Track high-value products
  • Improve on-shelf availability
  • Track work-in process and improve shipping accuracy
  • Deter theft, diversion and counterfeiting

Plus, you’ll learn:

  • How retailers are benefiting from tagging individual items today
  • Best practices for using RFID to improve delivery speed
  • How RFID can help cut labor costs
  • And much more!

The first RFID event to bring you Walmart’s Linda Dillman and Best Buy’s Robert Willett will present a line up of the industry’s most innovative thought leaders to discuss the issues facing today’s RFID industry and offer insight into its future. [end] 

CribMaster, in collaboration with Stanley Proto Industrial Tools (PROTO), announced the launch of ProtoID RFID-embedded hand tools including sockets.

ProtoID tools have been designed specifically with the aerospace industry in mind meeting the high standards to simplify tool control, while at the same time reduce the risks of foreign object damage (FOD).

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UPM RFID introduced two inlays featuring the NXP UCODE G2iL chip: the UPM Stamp near field ultra-high frequency inlay and UPM Jewel ultra-high frequency inlay.

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UPM RFID announced the new UPM Web ultra-high frequency (UHF) and UPM Trap near field (NF) UHF inlays based on the Monza RFID chip from Impinj.

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International fashion brand DAZZLE has implemented an item-level RFID project in their China retail chain using UPM RFID inlays. The fashion brand collection will carry hang tags equipped with UPM ShortDipole and UPM Belt RFID inlays to improve supply chain and sales channel management.

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TAGSYS has introduced its total management system for the textile rental services market, an end-to-end system to enable laundries and their customers to reduce linen abuse, regulate hoarding and accelerate their time for return on investment.

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A new study reveals the market for RFID transponders, readers, software and services will generate more than $70.5 billion from 2012 to the end of 2017.

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