Online Training for You and Your Team

$495 for members / $595 for non-members

Correctly encoding tags is at the core of the design of a successful RAIN system implementation. Failure to use a correct encoding scheme, can result in false or inaccurate data being fed to you management systems, resulting in an inability to achieve business performance targets.

GS1, ISO/IEC encoding schemes are there to solve this problem.

This course concentrates on how to use the GS1 EPC and EPC+ encoding schemes, along with ISO 17360 encoding schemes for supply chain applications, and the RAIN Alliance-issued CIN with free form binary or text encoding schemes.

Boost your resume with RAIN Alliance certification. Adding encoding skills to your online resume or social media profiles shows you have a skill that is vital to the industry.

This course is available on demand enabling you to take the course at your own pace from anywhere. If you wish to train an inhouse team the course can also be scheduled as an instructor lead virtual class.

Duration: 1 Day

This course is intended for anyone that is involved in implementing or maintaining AIDC systems based on RAIN Technology on both the supply and end user side.

This includes:

  • Solutions providers and Systems Integrators.
  • Label converter and Service Bureau staff.
  • Field engineers, Application engineers.
  • Project teams moving from Barcode to RAIN Technology based solutions.
  • End user staff involved in solution design and implementation.

This course includes a RAIN Alliance Certification exam.

Course Outline

  • Introduction and Background
    • Protecting business outcomes
    • What do we mean by “Numbering System?”
    • Business impact of ignoring the standards-based encodings.
  • The Two “Families” of Numbering System Standards
    • GS1 encoding schemes
    • ISO/IEC encoding schemes
  • How to Select the Best Numbering System for Your Application? When to Use GS1 and When to Use ISO/IEC?
  • Deep Dive Into Using GS1 Encoding Schemes
    • Overview of GS1 keys and basic encoding process
    • Focus on GTIN, GRAI and SSCC keys
    • SGTIN-96, SGTIN-198 encodings
    • Setting PC Word values for GS1 Encoding Schemes
    • GRAI-96, GRAI-170 and SSCC encoding
    • The new EPC+ schemes
      • +AIDC data on tags
      • Simplified encoding schemes
      • SCTIN+ and DSGTIN+ encodings
  • Serialisation Management Overview
  • Generating Commonly Used ISO/IEC Numbering System Encodings
    • Overview of ISO17360
    • Setting PC word values of ISO/IEC numbering systems
    • ISO/IEC 17360 detail
    • RAIN Alliance issued CINs for close loop systems