
Robert Fox
3545 S. Ocean Blvd. , Unit# 417
Palm Beach, FL 33480
Office Phone: 513-569-0260
Fax: 253-295-3056
Email:
rfox738@yahoo.com
Robert
Fox has been involved with bar code and the automatic identification and
data collection (AIDC) industry for the past 16 years. He is currently
Director of Equipment Business Solutions and Bar Code Laboratory and
provides consulting services for the implementation of automatic
identification systems for Telcordia Technologies, telephone companies and
equipment manufacturers, as well as providing support for the Telcordia’s
COMMON LANGUAGE® Products Group’s equipment coding business. He has
contacts with numerous suppliers of automatic identification technologies.
He has worked with several industries, including aerospace, healthcare and
electric utilities. Mr. Fox can provide expert assistance with the design,
compliance, training and implementation of Department of Defense (DoD)
Unique Item Identification (UID) policy and the Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) unit dose and other bar code requirements. Mr. Fox:
- Chairs
the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (formerly the
Telecommunications Industry Forum - TCIF) Bar Code/Standard Coding Committee
(BCSC) (for the last 6 years) which developed the Product Marking
Implementation Guideline and modified the Implementation Guide to Package
Labeling to incorporate two-dimensional (2D) symbols on labels under his
leadership.
- Represents
Telcordia on the ANSI MH10 Subcommittee 8 which sets U.S. material handling
standards.
- Represents
Telcordia on the U.S. Technical Advisory Group for international standards
for bar code printing and equipment conformance (Task Group 3), data
carriers/symbologies (Task Group 1), data structure (Task Group 2) and Radio
Frequency Identification (RFID) (Task Group 4).
- Represents
Telcordia on the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) R9 Automatic Data
Collection (ADC) Committee – which sets national (ANSI – American National
Standards Institute) standards for bar code usage for the electronics
industry (e.g., component and product marking, shipping and package labels)
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Supports over 1000 manufacturers in their use of Telcordia’s Generic
Requirements document for bar code labels (GR383-CORE) for
telecommunications network equipment. He is responsible for updating the
GR-383-CORE document as technology changes and experience from usage
demands.
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Implemented and directs Telcordia’s Bar Code Label and Equipment Test
Laboratory for the testing and verification of Bar Code labels, printers,
scanners and portable data collection terminals.
- Developed
and directed a small label printing business to support the production of
equipment labels for Telcordia Technologies COMMON LANGUAGE Equipment Codes
(CLEI™ Codes).
- Provided
guidelines for specifying and selecting bar code label materials and print
technology.
- Provided
specifications and training to telecommunications carrier 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. These specifications, training and systems
have significantly reduced the cost to perform these functions prior to
their use.
- Designed,
developed, implemented and maintained systems for a bar code capital assets
tracking for several telephone operating companies.
- Provided
information and specifications to support the implementation of Radio
Frequency Data Communications.
- Introduced bar code and associated systems to Boeing Helicopters;
‑ Developed automatic identification standards as well as test and
verification procedures for bar code for the Boeing Company
- Implemented and chaired the Boeing corporate committee for automatic
identification standards
- Educated
manufacturing and engineering personnel, and programmers in bar code
- Served
on the FACT Data Identifier Committee which created the ANSI standard (now
ANSI MH10.8.2 and ISO/IEC 15418) for Data Application Identifiers.
Mr. Fox developed,
marketed, hosted and presented the standards overview information for the
Frontline Solutions/Supply Chain Systems Expo Telecommunications Product
Marking Symposium in 2001 and the Telecommunications Product Marking and
Logistics Symposium in 2002. Frontline Solutions/Supply Chain Systems Expo
(formerly SCAN-TECH) is the nation's largest annual conference and
exposition on automatic identification technologies and supporting supply
chain processes. At SCAN-TECH 91, he presented a technical paper on Asset
Tracking. He also presented a technical paper on the benefits of Data
Identifiers (a set of characters which identifies the type of data within a
bar code) and the FACT Data Identifier Standard at SCAN-TECH 88. Mr. Fox,
along with Bob Rylander (Rylander & Associates), have developed a 2 day
seminar for Automatic Identification & data Collection (AIDC) in the
Telecommunications Industry, initially presented in Atlanta, GA in February
2003.
Mr. Fox has a
Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and a Masters of
Business Administration degree.
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