Alien Technology Corporation, an industry leader for RFID products and services, in partnership with Creative Systems, announced the recent roll-out of a multi-million tag RFID application with Vicaima in Portugal .

     "RFID technology was specified into this project as a solution to reduce the operation time involved during the wood-door production process introducing a fully automated validation system," said Jo?o Vila?a, Engineering Manager for Creative Systems. "Alien's UHF ALR-8800 reader and Gen 2 Squiggle tags were specified to enhance the material flows throughout Vicaima's supply chain process."

     Creative Systems is a Portuguese integrated solution provider in the field of smart information acquisition and management, operating in Portugal and Spain . It has a broad knowledge and experience in information technology coupled with operations management and centered on simple, scalable and competitive customized solutions supported by expert consultancy in process optimization and efficiency.

     "We constantly seek technologies to help maximize the quality level of our products and services," said Filipe Maia Ferreira, Managing Director of Vicaima. "Alien's RFID solution, using the 'squiggle' tag affixed to each door, greatly reduced the amount of human intervention required for process controls while virtually eliminating tracking errors - resulting in greater flexibility and efficiencies at the production control level." For more information about Vicaima, please go to www.vicaima.com

Vicaima is one of the largest door manufacturers in Europe . With over forty-eight years of expertise in the design and production of interior doors for home and offices, Vicaima has gained a sizeable international market share with their diverse product portfolio of quality interior doors.

     "This is Europe's first EPC-compliant RFID installation within the door/window production industry and the Vicaima application will serve as a benchmark for standardizing this solution across the entire wood-working industry," said Stephen Crocker, Director of Alien Technology Channel/Sales EMEA and India . "Over the next several months Vicaima plans to roll out their RFID solution to their production facilities throughout Europe and we're honored to be their RFID partner along with Creative Systems."

About Vicaima

     Vicaima - Ind?stria de Madeiras e Derivados , S.A. integrates one large and important group of companies - Vicaima's Group, established under the holding Vicaima Madeiras SGPS, S.A. , it forms a strong and cohesive set of companies, dedicated, in the great majority, to the transformation and distribution of wood and its derivatives, with significant cooperation between them and advantages of profitability and competitiveness. Vicaima is a 100% Portuguese owned company, it was established 48 years ago and is currently one of the biggest European door manufacturers. With strong and increasing presence in international markets, it offers to the market a vast range of products, especially interior doors in wood and its derivatives. For more information please go to www.vicaima.com

About Creative Systems

     Pioneer in the application of RFID in a series of industrial, logistics, retail and services applications, Creative Systems withholds a vast experience in this technology. The developed solutions privilege simplicity and scalability, integrating beyond RFID innumerable other automatic identification state of the art technologies, such as portable data terminals and barcode systems, amongst others. Creative Systems represents RFID equipments and solutions from Alien Technology, Printronix and Ekahau. For more information please visit the website: www.creativesystems.pt

About Alien Technology

     Alien Technology is a leading provider of RFID products and services to customers in a wide variety of industries. Organizations use Alien's RFID products and services to improve the effectiveness, efficiency and security of their supply chains, logistics and asset tracking operations. Alien's products include RFID tags, RFID readers and related training and professional services. Alien's patented Fluidic Self Assembly (FSATM) technology and related proprietary manufacturing processes are designed to enable the manufacture of high volume, low-cost RFID tags. Alien was founded in 1994. The company's facilities include corporate headquarters in Morgan Hill, CA; an RFID tag manufacturing facility in Fargo, ND; the Alien RFID Solutions Center in Dayton, OH; and sales offices in the US, Europe and Asia. Alien is a member of EPCglobal. More information about Alien is available at www.alientechnology.com

 

 

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