Software links automation, RFID and business

Management software manages readers, collects readers' tag data, compresses it, making it available in the merchandise management system with the required accuracy and quantity.

The latest version of the Siemens Automation and Drives (A and D) Simatic RF-Manager software for the integration of RFID(Radio Frequency Identification) systems in business processes features a number of innovations.

* RFID with automation data - Simatic RF-Manager 2008 now links RFID with automation data from Simatic S7 controllers and also collects data from mobile Simatic RF610M handheld terminals.

For this purpose, the software has more functions for efficient configuration, fast commissioning and reliable maintenance.

Simatic RF-Manager 2008 now links RFID data with automation data from Simatic S7 controllers.

For this reason control tasks, for example, will be triggered by read events, e g, a switch is set depending on the position of a tag (storage medium).

Write/read tasks for a write/read device (reader) can also be triggered by the controller and RFID data, which has already been read can be transmitted to the control system.

The engineering functions include a new comprehensive editor for the simultaneous parameterization of all RFID devices.

With new simulation functions, signal processes and RFID read events can be tested in advance without installed RFID hardware.

* Processing user data - there are system functions for the processing of user data in RF Manager.

Simatic RF-Manager 2008 is suitable for the most diverse scenarios in logistics and distribution - from the labeling of individual products to the automatic recording of entire commodity flows.

The software manages readers, collects the tag data produced by the readers, compresses the data, making them available in the merchandise management system with the required accuracy and quantity.

Furthermore, each individual tag can be accessed in order to read and write data or product identifiers which conform to EPC global (Electronic Product Code).

The EPC global standard is promoting identification per RFID in the UHF (Ultra High Frequency) range in order to optimize the value added chain.

* About Siemens in the UK - Siemens was established in the United Kingdom 165 years ago.

The company employs 20,387 people in the UK, including about 6,000 in the manufacturing sector.

Last year's revenues were GBP 3.6 billion, including exports of GBP 873 million, and it spent almost GBP 70 million on research and development.

As a leading global engineering company, Siemens provides innovative solutions to help tackle the world's major challenges, across the key industrial sectors of energy, industry and healthcare.

Siemens has offices and factories throughout the UK, with its headquarters in Frimley, Surrey.

The company's global headquarters is in Munich, Germany.

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