Welcome to todays Web Seminar

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Welcome to todays Web Seminar

• Focus on Teaching The Emerging Technology of
  RFID

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Todays Webinar Leaders

• Moderator
• Henry Kraebber Professor, Purdue University
• Featured Speaker
• Paul Ranky Professor, New Jersey Institute of
  Technology

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Procedures

• Please mute your phone enter 5
• Please type in your questions for Paul Ranky
  using the WebEX tool

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Webinar Timeline

• 200 to 210 Welcome and introduction. Overview
  of NCME, MERC, the WebEx software, procedural
  questions and speaker introduction
• 210 to 305 Featured Presentation by Paul Ranky
  Connecting to Pauls Server
• 305 to 325 Questions and Facilitated
  Discussion
• 325 to 330 Feedback from participants on this
  webinar experience

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NCME Mission

• to provide manufacturing technology educators
  with the tools and resources they need to be
  successful. The future of the manufacturing
  industry depends upon this countrys educators
  and business leaders.
• The NCME works to provide them with best-of-class
  and leading-edge products and services to
  successfully educate tomorrows manufacturing
  workers and leaders.

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Manufacturing Education Resource Center -MERC

• A national clearinghouse of resources for
  educators and industry professionals with a vast
  database of print, multimedia and online
  resources, along with a powerful search engine
• Designed to enable users to find and gain access
  to materials and other resources that can enhance
  their teaching

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MERC Overview

• Created in 2003 to provide a clearinghouse for
  manufacturing education resources. Visit the
  NCME website!
• http//www.ncmeresource.org/
• This is the third of six webinars to be held
  during the first three years of the project.

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Objectives of this todays webinar

• To help participants learn more about possible
  methods and techniques for teaching RFID
  technology.
• To answer questions and gain input from
  participants on how to teach RFID technology and
  its application.

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Paul Ranky

• He is a Full Tenured Professor of Industrial and
  Manufacturing Systems Engineering at the
  Department of Industrial and Manufacturing
  Systems Engineering at NJIT (New Jersey Institute
  of Technology), with an additional faculty
  appointment with NJIT's IT (Information
  Technology Program), as Professor of IT. NJIT is
  the Public Research University of New Jersey,
  Newark, NJ, USA.
• He is a Registered and Chartered Professional
  Engineer, specializing in integrated product and
  process design, PLM (Product Lifecycle
  Management), using digital product, process,
  manufacturing, and factory design methods and
  tools, concurrent / simultaneous engineering, in
  design for manufacturing / assembly / disassembly
  / quality, in manufacturing systems and
  industrial engineering, in requirements analysis,
  in process risk analysis, in total quality
  management, in designing and operating lean
  systems, and in information technology
  engineering, with nationally and internationally
  recognized academic, industrial and engineering
  management.
• Email ranky_at_njit.edu

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Paul Ranky Teaching RFID (Incorporating the
RFID study in his class)

• Please open a new browser window and enter the
  link to the IE673 syllabus and follow along with
  Paul
• KEEP your WebEX session OPEN!
• http//www.cimwareukandusa.com/All_IE673/IE673Spri
  ng2006.html
• This link is included in the registration e-mail
  sent to you earlier

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Key concepts discussed

• There is a great deal of RFID material on the
  WWW some good and some not
• Paul provides a collected set of materials for
  his students on CD/DVD and then helps guide them
  to important material.
• Students have access to much more then
  information than they need.

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• Paul does not teach a course in RFID, but RFID is
  an important technology in the solution of many
  business problems.
• A case study approach has been proven to work
  well for RFID
• Real world cases and problems
• Student designed solutions
• Discussion and sharing of ideas

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• The new technology of an E-book is one of Paul
  Rankys specialty areas
• The E-book contains virtual lab exercises that
  help teach students the fundamentals
• No need to buy a lot of expensive equipment
• Demonstration tags are often available at little
  or no cost from the tag vendors

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• Plant visits, in person or virtual can provide
  students with the opportunity to see the hardware
  in action
• THE KEY IS THE SYSTEMS APPROACH
• RFID is a technology
• RFID may be a good solution, but maybe not
• Get students to think of the big picture when
  designing a solution

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Pauls related multimedia publications

• URL http//www.cimwareukandusa.com
• Pauls alternate email cimware_at_mac.com

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SPECIAL OFFER (For this group only)

• Pauls RFID video on DVD is available! Only 5.00
  to cover postage and packing. (Normal price
  29.95 plus shipping.)
• Send your check to
• CIMware USA, Inc.
• 226 Brookside Ave
• Ridgewood NJ 07450
• Don't forget to include your address!

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Thanks for your participation

• We encourage you to take advantage of the MERC
  clearinghouse and to participate in future
  webinar sessions
• Your inputs are important and can help assure
  that the clearinghouse and future webinars
  provide manufacturing educators meaningful help
  and support