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SilverLining Partners LLC received recent notification from the Department of Veterans Affairs that SilverLining Partners has been validated and added to the verified Veteran business database at www.vetbiz.gov. This recognition will allow SilverLining to participate in Veterans First Contract Program opportunities with the VA.

SilverLining Partners was selected in March 2009 as a supplier of computer based training services to Electric Boat of Groton, CT a division of General Dynamics.

SilverLining Partners is proud to be a subcontractor to Lockheed Martin as one of 6 Primes on the Naval Education and Training Professional Development and Technology Center (NETPDTC) Contract awarded in August of 2008.  The value of the contract award to Lockheed was $35M over 5 years.

SilverLining was spotlighted in an October 6^th Waterbury-Republican newspaper center page article. To read the article, go to our “Download” page.

UID and RFID Integration from SilverLining Partners

SilverLining’s unique capability of having both a business and technology grounding makes it a logical choice to assist your company with the introduction of UID and RFID. Our 75+ combined years of technology experience, coupled with the reach-back engineering and software application expertise of our partners makes us a very cost effective, experienced and formidable solutions provider of UID and RFID technology.

Whether you are in manufacturing, health care, materials management or inventory control, the most challenging aspect of UID and RFID does not lie in the micro-technology but rather in the horizontal reach of this technology across internal business responsibilities. Both large and small companies struggle to find the most responsible internal person or department to design, deploy and manage this new technology – usually with little success. Multiple skills, multiple disciplines are required to integrate and adapt this emerging technology effectively. Therein lies the crux of design and implementation disappointments of this new and exciting asset tracking management solution.

Why Integration is Critical?

First, think back to the early introduction of networking into your company’s operation. Certainly, the technology was new and evolving. Standards were not available. Even when you understood the network components, every department and employee workgroup was impacted differently. What was the right printer for the finance group? What server was needed to handle both current traffic and into the future? What applications needed run over the network and when was the high traffic peak? How do I get access? What happens if the system fails? Who will add, delete or change the network components as business needs increase? And the final big question – can it be affordable? If these issues were not tackled properly, the project failed.

UID and RFID share similar issues.

There really are not many differences integrating an AutoID system.

First, the UID/RFID solution needs to be designed properly – from accurately locating the tag and antenna read equipment to determining the correct software application and its network accessibility. Short of “slap and ship”, the solution needs to adapt into your existing workflow. Or your processes need to be modified, documented and re-engineered. Our experience has shown there are no less than 10 variables to be assessed in each AutoID project design.

Next, the tag needs to be properly “selected and programmed” to ensure you can store, retrieve and manipulate the data and you can read the data into the system. Each corporate department (finance, customer service, manufacturing, shipping, receiving, materials handling and warranty service) will need UID and RFID data integrated into their existing working applications to (i) fully realize the benefits of the technology and (ii) to manage the business.

Regardless of the size of your business, you probably don’t have the luxury of having a staff member that understands AutoID technology; logistics; IT hardware and software applications equally well. Forget the intricacies of workflow analysis, tag engineering-compliance and programming standards to meet your management’s expectations. And if that person exists, can he take the time to implement it? Of course, you can always purchase a low cost, one-size-fits-all solution but that still leaves you as the implementation guru. And will it work after all?

SilverLining has developed an overall solution delivery process that will remove the complexity of integrating this new technology into your corporate environment. It is called “Smart Material Environment” or S.M.E:

S.M.E. is a specialized practice, having two major components. “Click” either of the below to get additional details on our deliverables.

Assessment

Solution Implementation

Our 6 Stages are scalable to meet the needs of our clients. If you have plotted your course (Stages 1 and 2) we can review your plan (Stage 3) and implement your design (Stage 4-6) quickly and efficiently. Need to justify the project, Stages 1 and 2 will provide you with a report that outlines the deliverables, risk assessment and ROI review. Whatever you need, we can assist you in making this leading edge technology a seamless part of your company workflow.

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