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Sky-Trax Presents “An Alternative to RFID Tracking Technologies: High Value Applications of Optical Sensing for Tracking & Controlling Assets Inside Industrial Buildings” at National Manufacturing Week in Rosemont (Chicago), IL
Company will also exhibit during three-day Expo, September 23 - 25, 2008.
New Castle, Delaware, September 12, 2008 -- Join Sky-Trax President and COO Larry Mahan for an educational session on An Alternative to RFID Tracking Technologies: High Value Applications of Optical Sensing for Tracking & Controlling Assets inside Industrial Buildings at National Manufacturing Week 2008. The seminar will take place from 10:30 am to 12:00 pm on Thursday, September 25 in Room 30 of the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, IL.
Session attendees will learn how to achieve 100% accurate inventory tracking data without manual scanning. Optical RTLS – real time location systems - provides the ability to do inch-accurate tracking of assets in real time inside warehouses, distribution centers, and manufacturing facilities.
“Optical RTLS provides a technology foundation for all kinds of new high-value applications that use location awareness to significantly improve and optimize driver productivity and safety as well as improve inventory accuracy,” says Mr. Mahan.
The key building block developed by Sky-Trax is the innovative patent-pending Indoor Positioning Sensor (IPS) Technology. IPS combines industrial digital camera technology with modern image processing software. When installed on mobile assets or vehicles, the result is an indoor vehicle tracking system to precisely track each vehicle by looking up into the ceiling and analyzing what it sees there. Functionally the optical RTLS performs as an indoor GPS; however, the secret to IPS accuracy and indoor reliability is that it uses optical technology, rather than radio wave or RFID technology for tracking.
Case studies will be presented of companies that achieved huge productivity gains with the Sky-Trax Total-Trax TM optical RTLS solution. In this applications fork truck drivers no longer have to do any data collection tasks and bar code scanners are not needed. Using either RFID label readers or a new generation of optical label readers, inventory and materials can be tracked automatically in real time and with 100% accuracy while significantly improving the productivity, safety, and accountability of fork lift drivers.
Attendees will also learn about current development programs using the optical RTLS technology to create a new type of driverless, autonomous free-roaming industrial vehicle. The new Centrally Controlled Vehicle (CCV) will work safely and cooperatively in existing facilities with traditional driven fork trucks. The anticipated benefits and impact of this development will be explored.
Stop by and see Sky-Trax at Booth # 5302
In addition to Mr. Mahan’s speaking engagement, Sky-Trax will join other companies as an exhibitor during the expo. Sky-Trax staff will be available throughout the three-day event at booth #5302 to discuss its products and solutions.
National Manufacturing Week, which runs from Tuesday, September 23 through Thursday, September 25, 2008, is a co-located event whose attendees include senior-level design and manufacturing visitors who are responsible for the purchase of design, plant, enterprise/IT, automation, process, quality, assembly, and controls products, services, and systems. Exhibits will feature the latest innovations for advanced design and manufacturing. More information about National Manufacturing Week is available at http://www.devicelink.com/expo/nmw08/index.html
About Sky-Trax Inc.
Sky-Trax develops revolutionary automatic data collection and inch-accurate location tracking systems for warehouse vehicles. Safety and productivity applications employing Sky-Trax’s IPS technology are economical and practical to deploy, allowing warehouse professionals to substantially increase safety and improve warehouse efficiency. The results are fewer safety incidents, lower operating costs, improved inventory accuracy and greater throughput. For more information, please visit www.Sky-Trax.com.
Sky-Trax Contact:
Sarah Sagin
Sky-Trax, Inc.
98 Quigley Blvd
New Castle, DE 19720
302-395-9540