High Demand for Innovation

Hardly any industry has focused as equally on technological advances as aviation. Under the Federal Association of Aviation and Space Industry (BDLI), the annual expenditure on research and development in 2010 was about 17 percent of industry sales. The aerospace industry relies on innovation. AIDC/RFID technology can improve upon processes in aviation logistics and maintenance. The deployed devices and transponders have to meet specific requirements in terms of robustness and security.

09:30 - 09:55

RFID In Logistics And Maintenance Management At Lufthansa Technik

Tom Burian
Lufthansa Technik Logistik GmbH

As part of the RFID management program, all RFID activities are driving the Lufthansa Technical Group ahead. At the LTL warehouse in Hamburg, every day hundreds of components are going in and coming out; from tagged life jackets, to marking the parts outside of an aircraft cabin.

• Maintenance & Overhaul
• Marking components outside the cabin
• Warehouse Logistics

09:55 - 10:20

Luggage Handling at the Airport

Manfred Pierl
SICK Vertriebs-GmbH

With a hybrid Airport Luggage Identification System (ALIS), Sick has developed a solution to decrease the throughput times of luggage on the airport, to reduce the manual expense and to curb the search and handling costs for lost or delayed luggage. In addition Barcode and RFID solutions are used here to label and read RFID luggage tags at unmanned luggage counters.

• Automation of check-in processes
• Identification of all sorts of luggage
• Readability of different codes

10:20 - 10:45

Safety At the airport

Marcel Schweda
Assion Electronic GmbH

At a German major airport, the airport lighting of the runway will be labelled with RFID to simplify maintenance visits. In a South African city, the company installed an RFID system for access control. Since the implementation, the number of criminal offences in the security zone has verifiably decreased.

Bildquelle: Günter Wicker/ Berliner Flughäfen

• Identification and location of runway flares
• Unambiguous identification of vehicles and staff
• Meeting complex safety requirements

10:45 - 11:10

Bistable displays with wireless control for logistic applications

Lutz Hartmann
Fraunhofer Research Institution for Polymeric Materials and Composites PYCO

The use of RFID in logistics often suffers the drawback that information stored on tags is not visible for operators but needs additional hardware to be read. We demonstrate the coupling of RFID tags with bistable displays to circumvent this drawback. Potential applications of this technology will be discussed.

• Combination of RFID tags with bistable displays
• Energy supply by inductive coupling
• Potential applications in modern logistics

11:30 - 11:55

RFID
Small Transponder, Big Impact

Jörg Hehlgans
Harting Technologiegruppe

Harting, together with Lufthansa Technical Logistics and the Fraunhofer-Institut für Integrierte Schaltungen IIS, developed an aviation UHF tag. This is the first of its kind, fulfilling the high requirements of maintenance operations in the aviation industry.

• 3D-MID technology
• RFID use in harsh environments
• UHF on metal

Industry 4.0

The Industry is in a transition. Innovations such as the self-controlling factory are becoming a reality; among experts, this leads to a debate over the „fourth industrial revolution.“ AIDC/RFID technologies provide an essential contribution to the improvement of efficiency and security in production. A unique part identification system across the entire production chain gives manufacturing companies a distinct, competitive advantage.

11:55 - 12:20

Power to compete through industrial identification

Heinz-Peter Peters
Simatic Ident, Siemens AG

Flexibility and effectiveness are fundamental in order to be able to meet individual customer requirements in a targeted and reliable manner. Through the use of identification concepts, you benefit from more efficiency in logistics, material management, production and services, and can therefore act flexibly in a tough competitive environment.

• Complete transparency in every sector
• Synchronize the flow of goods with the virtual flow of data
• Integrated control of the production and delivery chain

12:20 - 12:45

RFID-Applications in the Automotive Industry: New Solutions for Tracking & Tracing

Oliver Pütz-Gerbig
Balluff GmbH

Balluff offers RFID-solutions for identification of metal components in the automobile industry. Special screw-like tags will be applied to motorblocks. These data carriers can be programmed with product information as well as with relevant process and quality data. Thus RFID tags (HF or UHF) enable the entire manufacturing process to be traceable and improve the efficiency of the supply chain.

• HF and UHF solutions for automotive industry
• UHF applications on item level
• High resistant RFID tags for metal application

12:45 - 13:10

Continuous RFID tracking of metallic and non metallic objects across the production lifecycle

Frank Linti
Schreiner LogiData

What are the benefits of continuous automatic tracking along the production chain? How does RFID fit into highly automated production processes? What requirements must RFID tags meet when on metal? These and other questions will be answered in this lecture.

• Material specific challenges in production objects
• Optimal precision in the reading range for automated tracking
• Cost reduction in production scheduling

Need for Reliable Identification

More and more, we meet safety-relevant identification in everyday life. Whether on the ticket to a football match, when redeeming a voucher, or use the new ID card: The need for reliable identification is increasing. AIDC/RFID technology can help satisfying security standards and reducing costs.

Secure RFID
The new German eID

14:00 - 14:25

Jens Fromm, Fraunhofer-Institutfür Offene Kommunikationssysteme

There is more and more doubt on the user side when it comes to technologies. But trust in IT becomes more and more critical. Is RFID secure enough? Is the new German eID a good example for secure RFID?

• Secure Identification, German eID, mobile

14:25 - 14:50

Secure Identities And Secure Items Through The Proper Use Of RFID Technology

Frithjof Walk, Feig Electronic GmbH

RFID systems are used in various applications. The challenge in future business transactions will be in the ability to move in safe environments. The secure identification of persons and objects are increasingly implemented and realized with RFID technologies.

• The new ID card
• Smart cards and contactless payment cards
• Safe use of RFID by cryptography

Increasing Flow of Goods

From the milk on the supermarket shelves to the newspaper - efficient logistics determine our everyday lives, despite being virtually hidden. Because of the increasing, global flow of goods, the logistic and transport sectors are always facing new challenges. The main players in the industry are continuously working to meet the increasing demands. When it comes to automating logistic processes and freight delivery, AIDC/RFID technologies are indispensable.

14:50 - 15:15

Convergence of different identification technologies in logistics - Barcode, RFID, Voice

Jürgen Heim
Psion GmbH

The convergence of different identification technologies in logistics will be the lecture topic for Jürgen Heim. The company‘s approach is to make barcode-, RFID-, or voice-based solutions easier to combine. Modular handhelds allow flexible change in the use of different technologies.

• Barcode, RFID and voice-based solutions
• Combining technologies for modular handhelds
• Customized solutions for individual demands

15:45 - 16:10

DHL‘s approach for industry-independant RFID solutions

Michael Zehnpfennig
DHL

From Fashion to High Tec: LSPs handle goods from various industry sectors. Except for small custumization parts, any RFID solution has to be agnostic about the industry it is used for. This presentation is about DHL‘s way forward in generalizing RFID solutions.

• Application examples in Fashion, High Value, Automotive
• Benefit of using standards
• Innovative IT systems

16:10 - 16:35

Optimized Logistics Processes in Ports

Heiko Röhr
T-Systems International

ThyssenKrupp is currently constructing a new smelter in Brazil to produce approximately five million tons of flat rolled steel per year, which is transported to the U.S. and to Germany. To accelerate the port turnaround, the steel company relies on an RFID solution by T-Systems. Each steel block will be labelled with an RFID tag prior to shipment.

• Cost savings due to reduced loading times in ports
• Data processing in AutoID-/RES platform
• Increased safety for personnel in the port