RFID technology perfectly combines with smart manufacturing

The manufacturing industry has always faced many problems. For example, manual entry for production collection is inefficient and has large errors, resulting in inaccurate data; often insufficient monitoring of production progress leads to poor controllability, which can easily lead to serious loss of product quality and high repair rates, making it impossible to proceed. Quality traceability. RFID technology can significantly improve and enhance various key performances of the manufacturing process, and can provide real-time data accurately, quickly and reliably. It has become an important technical foundation reserve for large-volume, high-speed manufacturing companies. RFID technology is perfectly integrated with intelligent manufacturing.

RFID is moving from the supply chain into the core of the manufacturing process. By gradually adopting RFID technology at the factory floor level, manufacturers can seamlessly and non-stop integrate the information captured from RFID and link to existing, proven and industrially enhanced controls. The system infrastructure, coordinated with the supply chain equipped with RFID functions, can send accurate and reliable real-time information flow without updating the existing manufacturing execution system (MES) and manufacturing information system (MIS), thereby creating added value and improving productivity. and substantial investment savings.

The application of RFID in manufacturing is of great significance. RFID technology performs information management, manufacturing execution, quality control, standard compliance, tracking and tracing, Asset MANAGEMENT, storage volume visualization, and productivity, etc.:

1. Manufacturing information management

Combining RFID with existing manufacturing information systems such as MES, ERP, CRM, and IDM can establish a more powerful information chain and transmit accurate data at the correct time, thereby enhancing productivity, improving asset utilization, and Higher level quality control and various online measurements. Usually after obtaining data from RFID, middleware is needed to process the data and feed it to the manufacturing information system.

2. Manufacturing execution, quality control and standards compliance

To support lean manufacturing and production quality control, RFID provides a continuously updated stream of real-time data. Complementing manufacturing execution systems, RFID provides information that can be used to ensure the correct use of labor, machines, Tools and parts, thereby enabling paperless production and reducing downtime. Furthermore, as materials, parts and assemblies pass through the production line, the production process can be controlled, modified and even reorganized in real time to ensure reliability and high quality.

3． track and trace

Increasing demands for compliance with FDA quality specifications have prompted consumer packaged goods, food, and beverage companies to require precise tracking and traceability of product information throughout their supply chains. In these respects, RFID can complement existing manufacturing execution systems. For most parts, manufacturing execution systems can already collect information such as product identifiers, time stamps, physical attributes, order numbers, and batch sizes for each process. Information, which can be converted into RFID codes and transmitted to the supply chain, helping manufacturers track and trace product historical information.

4． Factory asset management

RFID on an asset (equipment) provides information such as its location, availability status, performance characteristics, storage capacity, etc. Production processes, maintenance, labor adjustments, etc. based on this information can help increase asset value, optimize asset performance and maximize asset utilization. Due to reduced downtime and more efficient maintenance (planned and unplanned), it can positively impact very important manufacturing performance parameters such as the overall equipment effectiveness (Overall Equipment Effectiveness).

5． Visualization of warehouse volumes

As contract manufacturing becomes increasingly important, clear visibility into synchronized supply chains and manufacturing processes is key. RFID is suitable for application systems of various sizes (local or extended to the entire factory). RFID can provide comprehensive and full visibility of incoming materials, WIP, packaging, transportation and warehousing until finally sent to the next destination in the supply chain, all of which are related to information management.

Under the requirements of diversified production technology, RFID technology is combined with the industrial intelligent manufacturing production line system to automatically identify and collect data in each link, assisting the visualization of intelligent manufacturing production and improving the transparency of the production line.