1) RFID is a wireless technology that uses radio waves to identify tagged products and objects. It consists of tags, antennas, and readers. 2) The document describes a case study of applying RFID in the supply chain of a heavy machinery manufacturing company. By implementing RFID, the company eliminated inefficiencies, improved delivery accuracy, and increased information sharing across the supply chain. 3) The case study found that RFID automation reduced human errors, tags represented product assemblies and parts for automated documentation, and the system provided real-time alerts and notifications.

1. By Mandar Jagtap
ME (Manufacturing Systems)

2. Automotive Data Capture (ADC)
or
Automatic Identification & Data Capture (AIDC)
Provide direct entry without keyboard
 Applications..
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IN MATERIAL
HANDLING
IN MANUFACTURING
Shipping & receiving
Status of order
processing
Storage
WIP
Sortation
Machine utilization
Order picking
Worker attendance

3. Drawbacks of manual data entry
 Average error rate is 1 error/300
characters[1]
 Time factor
ADC
 Labor cost
Technology
Optical
Magnetic
Electromagnetic
Smart card
Why RFID??
Out of all the ADC technologies
available, RFID is one of the fastest
& accurate technology !
Touch
technique
Biometric
RFID

4. RFID is a wireless technology that uses radio waves to scan or
"identify" a product /substance/animal that contains a tag.
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RFID is Radio Frequency Identification.
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It consists of three parts
◦ An antenna, present on tag, obtains & gives energy
◦ A tag (or Transponder) , contains a printed circuit board
◦ A reader (or Transceiver) , decodes information sent by the
transponder

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Used in early 1900’s & was used in World War II[2]
In 1970’s, A noticeable development work started
By 1980’s, the full implementation of the technology
In 1990’s, the deployment of applications with RFID
21st century, the pace of development in RFID

7. • RFID in Retail
• RFID in Logistics, Transportation, and Warehousing
• RFID in Assembly, Manufacturing, and Configuration
Management
• RFID in Asset Tracking and Locating Objects
• RFID in Authentication, Counterfeit Protection, and Security
• RFID with Environment Sensors

8. RFID reader gates are installed
• at Smart shelves
• at Ware houses
• at transportation site
• at Retail inventory

9. Abstract
 Potential of RFID to delivery of the heavy-machinery
manufacturing enterprise, which involves one specific supply
chain.
 RFID should be a revolutionary technology as,
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it redesigns the existing processes
eliminate some current inefficiency
improve the accuracy of delivering the products
increases information sharing between supply chain members

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Research Site
◦ Erzhong Lida (namely, Erzhong Lida Electromechanical Equipment Co.
LTD)
◦ heavy-machinery manufacturing enterprise providing devices for steel
plants
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Process Analysis
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Filling & attaching of labels manually by workers
Checking and verification at assembly lines
Creation & attaching pallet documents manually
Closing pallets & Inform to transporter for picking
At customer, manual verification by Sales representative
The Trial in Practice

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On-site observations to understand the existing processes.
Semi-structured interviews with managers and the operating
personnel
The development document of Erzhong Lida’s trial. From the
document

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The Elimination of Some Current Inefficiencies
◦ Automated processes eliminates human errors
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The Improved Accuracy of Delivering the products
◦ the tags represent the assemblies or parts
◦ Generation of documents based on information read by Reader
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The Increased Information Sharing between Supply Chain
Members
◦ Application can send e-mail or message if error occurs
◦ Gives alert notifications to all levels

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Full deployment of RFID obviously depends on the evolution
of technology itself since the price of tags is still high in
respect of the value of most goods
More importantly, its deployment is strongly dependent on the
vision, willingness and ability of supply chain members to
capitalize on real-time, continuously updated, information
embedded in products as they move along the supply chain.

15. In this topic we introduced RFID , its usefulness in
manufacturing and supply chain management.
We also analyzed a case-study illustrates effects of
Application of RFID in supply chains of different
manufacturing sector.

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Based on Safety and Benefit Analysis (Min Zhang, Peichong Li)
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RFID application: A case study(James C. Chen , Chen-Huan Cheng ,
PoTsang B. Huang )
 Elsevier.com/RFID potential impacts and future evolution for green
projects (Yvan Duroc and Darine Kaddour)
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/RFID’s Impacts on Business Value: A Case Study of Supply Chain in
the Discrete Manufacturing Industry ( LIU Yun,SHAO Pei-ji, MO Zhiwu, WANG Tao, SUN Shu)
[1]- Automation, Production Systems and Computer-Integrated
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