Press release: Angela Merkel and Philipp Rösler visit RAN Stand at the IT Summit
- Source: LHLK 2011
Please find here the official press release.
Welcome to RAN!
Individual vehicle requirements, new drive systems and constant innovations produce an ever-growing product variety. For this reason, vehicle manufacturers are focussing on their core competencies and reducing the vertical range of manufacture. This results in the development of complex supplier networks.
This is where the research project RFID-based Automotive Network (RAN), promoted by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, comes into it.
Full information on the structure, tasks and objectives of the project can be found under Project.
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Press release concerning the cooperation between RAN project partners and the US based RFID/RTLS manufacturer MOJIX
Common goal: Cross enterprise process transparency in the automotive industry
RAN goes online
The project website for the RFID-based Automotive network (RAN) project, promoted by the Ministry of Economics and Technology was launched on 15th December 2010.
In the RAN project, we can help to create an important standard for the automotive industry and to use our logistical supporting systems to make this standard useable.
Dr.-Ing. Axel Wagenitz
head of department, Supply Chain Engineering, Fraunhofer Institut für Materialfluss und Logistik IML
With RAN, we can now implement our approaches and solutions for the self-monitoring of logistical processes that we developed in Bremen as part of our special research area "Self-monitoring of logical processes - a paradigm shift and its boundaries", in the dynamic and complex networks of the automotive industry.
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernd Scholz-Reiter
BIBA – Bremer Institut für Produktion und Logistik GmbH, managing director of the Bremer Institut für Produktion und Logistik GmbH (BIBA)
Harnessing cross-company integration and the implementation of modern technologies for everyone involved in the logistics chain and simultaneously simplifying processes is a great task. We are very pleased to work on these topics comprehensively with the project partners.
Jörg Fürbacher
EURO-LOG AG, management board
With the RAN project, the automotive sector takes on a key role in AUTONOMIK. Standards for optimum RFID-based logistics processes are developed and tested in practice along the entire net product chain. We welcome the fact that automotive manufacturers and suppliers are agreeing upon a common procedure for the industry-wide introduction of RFID.
Dr. Andreas Goerdeler
BMWi – Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie, head of department ,development of convergent ICT'
The RAN project represents a considerable enhancement of a more efficient and co-operative control of the global material flow in the automobile industry. In this context, using RFID technology is of critical importance. The strategic dimension of this project is just as relevant for increasing efficiency and process quality for OEMs as for the suppliers and logistics companies.
Dr. Peyman Merat
Daimler AG, Senior manager integrated product verification
For us, as a regionally based and simultaneously internationally equipped university in the automotive region of the Saar, the RAN project provides us with the opportunity to, in co-operation with an interdisciplinary team of engineers and logistics experts, generate solid solution suggestions from an industry-oriented research department. This enables us students, the future specialists and leaders of German industry, to prepare ourselves for the future.
Prof. Dr. Steffen H. Hütter
Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft des Saarlandes, industrial research project manager
As a project team, we want to be involved in shaping the future of automobile production using innovative RAN approaches, such as standardised RFID implementation, the info broker and cross-partner control concepts.