The Center of Workforce Innovations and BlueBean Announce "RFID 101" Seminar for Only $99

December 13, 2007 - The Center of Workforce Innovations of Northwest Indiana (CWI) is excited to announce that their partner BlueBean, the RFID Solutions Company, will be presenting “RFID 101” on January 18th from 9 am – 4 pm at Ivy Tech’s Valparaiso campus. The seminar will show companies in the area how Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology is being used to reduce costs and improve efficiencies.

“This type of seminar normally costs $1750 per person. However, CWI is underwriting $1651 of that cost making this seminar available for only $99 per person,” says Sandra Alvarez, Senior Workforce Associate at the Center of Workforce Innovations. “We feel like this is a tremendous value to the manufacturing, transportation, distribution and logistics companies in our area that can really benefit from RFID.”

The workshop will show the benefits of RFID through:
- Increased asset utilization
- Increased asset visibility
- Improved vehicle identification
- Automatic truck and trailer tracking
- Automatic identification & tracking of shipments
- Automatic identification & tracking of inventory and WIP

BlueBean’s RFID experts will provide hands-on RFID training in a lab setting. The registration deadline is January 11, 2008 and the seminar will be limited to 16 attendees. Interested parties can register online at www.RFIDSupplyChain.com/signup or by phone at 800-966-7343. Payment is due upon registration and refunds will be given only if written cancellation is received seven days prior to the seminar.

About The Center of Workforce Innovations, Inc.
The Center of Workforce Innovations, Inc., an Indiana 501c3, brings private sector leaders together with policy makers from government, education, economic development, labor, and community-based organizations to analyze regional labor market trends, needs, and issues, in order to develop strategic workforce solutions for the system in Northwest Indiana. CWI’s most recent activities have focused on the betterment of the workforce support system for Jasper, Lake, La Porte, Newton, Porter, Pulaski and Starke Counties. Also, they have taken the lead on the seven Northwest Indiana county initiatives for the Strategic Skills Initiative and the Governor's WorkEthic initiative.

About BlueBean
BlueBean (www.bluebeanrfid.com) is a privately held RFID consulting and systems integration company that focuses exclusively on RFID solutions, RFID compliance mandates and simplifying the implementation of RFID technology. We guarantee our clients a solution that successfully meets their business needs based on our real world knowledge, extensive expertise and certifications from the top RFID manufacturers including Alien, Impinj, Intermec, Motorola (Symbol), Omron, Printronix and Zebra. BlueBean provides a custom roadmap of the steps required to achieve your goals and offers services and resources to implement the solution. RFID services include design, hardware and software selection, installation, implementation, integration with existing systems, maintenance, training and support. We strive to make the client’s RFID deployment as simple and easy as possible.
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