Robert W. Rylander is President of Robert Rylander and Associates and is a member and education chairman of the AIDC-100 professional organization. He has worked in the Automatic Identification industry for the past twenty five years. Seven years with Symbol Technologies Inc. as Senior Manager of Consulting Services for the Worldwide Education Group and prior to that Senior Consultant, INTERMEC Corporation. He has worked in manufacturing for over 25 years and has held managerial positions in the Quality Assurance field for several large corporations. Mr. Rylander chaired the corporations bar code standardization committee while Quality Assurance Manager at Digital Equipment Corporation. During the period that he was in manufacturing, he managed the implementation of Shop Floor and Inventory Automatic Identification systems for ITT, Storage Technology, and Digital Equipment Corporation.
For the past several years, he has consulted for over two hundred industries in the development of Automatic Identification strategic plans and standards. These industries range from Electronics, Aerospace, Retail, Medical, Food Processing, and Heavy Industry. He has performed Automatic Identification design, and cost justification studies for such corporations as: IBM, Ford Aerospace, General Foods, GTE, Porsche North America, Dow Chemical, Lockheed, Naval Air Rework Facility, and United Airlines to name a few. He has been a member of the EIA, ANSI MH-10 and TCIF standard committees for several years developing standards for both Electronics and Telecommunications Industry.
Mr. Rylander was awarded first place in the Materials Handling Institutes, "Concepts for the 80's", for his total live shop floor control and bar code concepts.
He has been a member of several AIDC standards bodies including (ATIS - the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions) Bar Code/Standard Coding Committee (BCSC), which develops AIDC guidelines for product, package and shipping labels. He also participated on the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) Automatic Data Capture Committee, which sets national standards for bar code usage for the electronics industry and on the ANSI MH10 Subcommittee 8, which sets national material handling labeling standards.
Conducts seminars and AIDC workshops for several organizations and universities including Frontline Solutions (SCAN-TECH), IOPP, APICS, Purdue, State University of New York, Kansas State University, University of Wisconsin, Boise State University, Eastern Washington University and Lewis and Clark College.
For twelve years he has conducted AIDC workshops in the Pacific Rim countries of Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, and Hong Kong. Mr. Rylander just completed a self paced CD course on UID for the Department of Defense and is now conducting two and three day RFID courses at several universities within Australia.
Robert H. Fox has been involved with bar codes and automatic identification for the past 18 years. He currently provides consulting services for the implementation of automatic identification systems for telephone companies and equipment manufacturers. He is a member of the AIDC (Automatic Identification / Data Capture) 100 professional organization and is Comp-TIA RFID+ certified. He chairs the telecommunications industry (ATIS - the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions) Bar Code/Standard Coding Committee (BCSC), which develops AIDC guidelines for product, package and shipping labels.
He also participates on the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) Automatic Data Capture Committee, which sets national standards for bar code usage for the electronics industry, on the ANSI MH10 Subcommittee 8, which sets national material handling labeling standards and on the U.S. Technical Advisory Group for international standards for bar code and two-dimensional symbol print quality, data structure, radio frequency identification (RFID) and equipment conformance. Mr. Fox has provided guidelines for specifying and selecting bar code label materials and print technology, as well as specifications and training to telecommunications companies to incorporate bar code technology; procure bar code labels; select bar code scanners, portable data collectors and bar code printers for several tracking and inventory projects. He is currently leading the telecommunications industry in the development of a guideline for the use and benefits of RFID technology in the telecommunications supply chain. He has written a white paper on RFID for the Telecommunication Industry.