RFID Integration Management

* Brand new half-day course!

This half-day course provides a strategic vision for integrating RFID into your business enterprise.
Geared toward decision makers who want to know how to get the most out of RFID, this course
examines several popular technology packages and explores what they have to offer in the way of RFID functionality.

Participants will receive an overview of RFID middleware and how it is used to span the gap between enterprise software and RFID hardware. Today, middleware can take an RFID event, such as reading a tag at a dock door, and inform the enterprise software of your company of that event.

Several popular Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems and middleware packages will be examined, including: Microsoft, IBM, SAP and GlobeRanger.

Attendees will learn best practices for using RFID data to streamline business processes and get maximum return on investment.

Supply chain and operations professionals, company executives, IT managers and developers, IT solution providers and consultants who have completed Introduction to RFID and RFID Training can benefit from course participation.

Download a Course Fact Sheet: RFID Integration Management

Format: Seminar

Duration: 4 hours

Schedule

Date: 6/4/2008
Time: 1 to 5 pm
Location: Penn State Behrend, Research and Economic Development Center (REDC)
Cost: $99

Instructor Profile

Chris Wassel is the RFID Program Manager at the Penn State Behrend RFID Center of Excellence. Wassel's responsibilities include overseeing the Center's corporate membership and RFID training program. His team has assisted over 20 companies with RFID projects and has trained over 1,200 industry professionals and students in RFID technology. Wassel also manages the Center's
state-of-the-market RFID Lab. Wassel holds a master's degree in Business Administration from Penn State Behrend and is an RFID+ Certified Professional.

Brian Zentis is a Program Manager with the Penn State Behrend RFID Center of Excellence overseeing the development of the RFID Enterprise Integration curriculum, and serves as project leader for the RFID Project of the Northwest Pennsylvania Technology Industry Partnership. Prior to joining the RFID Center, he held research, engineering, and quality systems positions in the specialty chemical and plastics industries, and worked as a software engineer developing math educational software. He holds an Extra Class Amateur Radio license and is CompTIA RFID+ Certified.