The Use of RFID in the Production Cycle The production cycle is the set of activities involved in the design, the planning of resources, the scheduling, and the traceability of production activities. Constantly, new technology is adapted to facilitate and offer better productive capability. According to Stankovski, Lazarevic, Ostojic, Cosic, and Puric (2009), the pressure on manufacturers to comply with the market demand and shortage in inventory are enormous. Consequently, producers have to continuously look for better tools to overcome such problems. The latest invention that has revolutionized the process of production is the Radio Frequency Identification (RFID). The RFID technology offers to the production cycle an unprecedented accuracy and ability to gather information. It enables real-time tracking of inventory from the storeroom, work-in-process, to finished goods. Landt, J. (2005) in his paper “The History of RFID” traces the origin of the idea to the work done by Harry Stockman, the author of “Communication by Means of Reflected Power,” published in 1948. Landt mentioned that, “RFID increases productivity and convenience.” Nowadays, the use of RFID is an essential part of our daily life. This technology replaces barcodes by tiny microchips readable by radio waves. If offers a better instrument to world of information technology because barcodes carry a limited amount of information and can be scanned only with a direct light-of-sight; whereas, RFID tag allows an automatic identification of the location of products. It is a real-time tracker. This paper will be an examination of the effectiveness of RFID in production monitoring and control. Additionally, it will enumerate the advantages of RFID in producing better acc... ... middle of paper ... ... Conference September 28-October 2, 2004, Salt Lake City, Utah USA. Retrieved from http://wireless.ucla.edu/gadh/pdf/04b.pdf Hau Lee and Ozalp Ozer (2007). Unlocking the value of RFID. Production and operations management society. Vol. 16, No 1, pp. 40-64. Retrieved from http://www.utdallas.edu/~oxo091000/pdf/RFID_LO.pdf Cesar da Costa and Laís Reis de Oliveira (2013). RFID Applications to the optimization of discrete manufacturing process. 2013 IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing, Computing, and Control (ISPCC). Retrieved from http://ieeexplore.ieee.org.ezproxy.fau.edu/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6663422 Harold E. Davis and Michael S. Luehlfing (2004). Radio Frequency Identification: The Wave of the Future. Journal of Accountancy. Retrieved from http://www.journalofaccountancy.com/Issues/2004/Nov/RadioFrequencyIdentificationTheWaveOfTheFuture.htm
These RFID tags allow for McKesson to electronically track pharmaceuticals throughout warehouses, allowing for less lost product. Health care in the United States is at one of its more uncertain and unpredictable eras in the entire history of the country. News technology, services, ideas are being invented each day, and McKesson Corporation is at the forefront of this ongoing technology race. The McKesson Corporation is constantly working with other health care organizations to strengthen the health of their business, improve quality, develop new efficient means, and to help them control costs. The McKesson Corporation’s mission statement is as follows, “Together with our customers and partners, we are creating a sustainable future for health care. Together we are charting a course to better health.” (mckesson.com) Breaking this down, it would appear that the McKesson Corporation is primarily focusing on future technologies in health care and health services to promote better health in the general public, regardless of the continent. The core values of the corporation are integrity, customer first, accountability, respect, and excellence. These values are grouped into “ICARE”, their group of
Today’s businesses are always looking for ways of making their workforce more efficient. With any vehicle fleet, fuel consumption is becoming a progressively larger cost to the business. And without accurate and real time data it’s very difficult to identify where they can make improvements, leaving their fleet operations without the tools they need to get the most from resources. Different types of GPS tracking and management systems gives you the tools you need to make positive changes, based upon accurate, up to date information. The transparency that GPS tracking and management systems make it possible for businesses to complete more jobs per week, reduce fuel costs, track scheduled maintenance, view proof of visit and time on site, optimize scheduling, routing, reduce administration and time sheets. There are multiple types of tracking systems all used for different types of businesses and workers, some of them are Radio Frequency Identification or RFID and Barcodes. Each one of these systems can hold information about a good or product. Also, businesses can figure out where they are wasting huge amounts of money and time where they should not be. This essay reviews RFID technology and its applications in today’s business world.
How far is going too far? Imagine a world where an individual’s complete and accurate medical history can be accessed and updated by simply scanning a microchip or radio frequency identification device (RFID) that is implanted into the body. Envision a patient arriving at point-of-care; the chip that is embedding into the patient’s body would be scanned to upload the patients’ health information into the providers’ health information system (HIS). During this encounter, new information would be stored in the HIS. When the patient is discharged, the patient’s up-to-date health information would be uploaded from the HIS to the patients’ microchip. Implanting an electronic health record into every U.S. citizen has its pros and cons; the question contemplated is “We Can But Should We”?
This technology is being used for both short range and also long range identification, in the short-range identification category, this innovation is used in practical applications like credit cards (pay wave, tap and go ect...), animal identification (domestic pets, farm animals). The long range applications of the RFID chip is used in aeroplanes to bounce back a signal to radio control signifying their plane identification, the long range application of the chip is used in many other systems for similar purposes. the RFID chip is used all around the would and has and is readily available for the past few decades. The RFID chip is used by many agencies including federal agencies and also used for municipal and state and also local agencies. E.G..
Now let us step to the other side of the Merchant counter as a consumer and realize how RFID can benefit the average person. Have you ever felt impatient when standing behind someone in line at the grocery store who insisted on paying by check? Well, get ready to get agitated at the slowpoke of the future—the techno challenged person using a credit card. Contactless cards, already used in Asia for several transit and payment systems, have been introduced to the United States via pilot programs sponsored by American Express and MasterCard. Thes...
RFID enables real-time tracking of items, safe monitoring and automation of warehouse operations, which can lead to increases in sales volumes and improved profitability for suppliers and retailers (Wong & Guo, 2014, pg.14). There are two main type of RFID currently in use: Active and Passive. Passive RFID tags are used for applications such as access control, file tracking, race timing, supply chain management, smart labels, and more (Smiley, 2016, pg.1). The implementation of RFID for CanIt Inc. will mostly be used for tracking physical goods and products, use of passive RFID will be the most suitable for this
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The purpose of this project is to implement computer software and hardware to automate production and value chain management in order to increase productivity of the company and reduce production costs. This project will implement three components of a single unifying system to improve the inventory management and control at Riordan Manufacturing based on the goals of each of three areas of the manufacturing processes. Raw materials receiving will receive a computerized inventory check-in system. Manufacturing will receive a computerized project management system. Final product shipping...
Wolinsky, H. (2006, October). Tagging products and people. espite much controversy; radiofrequency identification chips have great potential in healthcare. Science and
Radio frequency identification (RFID) is a computerized ID innovation that uses radio recurrence waves to exchange information between an onlooker and things that have RFID gadgets, or tags, joined. The tags hold a microchip and receiving wire, and work at universally distinguished standard frequencies. Barcodes are much smaller, lighter and easier than RFID but RFID offers significant advantages. One major advantage of RFID is that the innovation doesn't oblige any observable pathway the tags could be perused as long as they are inside the range of the spectator, whereas in barcodes in order to read the barcode the barcode scanner should close around 10-15 fts. In RFID data, for example, part and serial numbers, assembling dates and support history is put away on the tags and catches which help in maintenance of equipments. RFID technology as high value for asset management and inventory systems
...The product will be able to move. Because they can see what is being sold and where people are buying it they have the ability to change forecasts on what they should do. Using the RFID the tracking system will help eliminate errors and ensure quality of the products.
In the mass production scenario, goods move through different factory departments until completely finished. As the goods move through the production process, their associated costs move with them through the organizations books. Information systems trace the exact value of raw materials put into process and the value of direct labor and overhead used to transform those raw materials into finished goods. Said information systems ensure that
A) RFID refers to radio-frequency identification and it belongs to Automatic Identification and Data Capture (AIDC) group of technology. This technology is able to scan objects automatically, collect data about the objects and store those data straightforward into the computer systems, this is done with almost no help from human. As seen in the picture below, there are 3 components in this system which help it to achieve all this work, these are RFID tag or label, RFID reader and an antenna. Inside every RFID tag or label, it contains a micro-chip known as integrated circuit and an antenna to transmit these data to RFID reader. The RFID reader's antenna is then start to give out electromagnetic wave in order to receive tag antenna. Once it
There are two main types of RFID tags: active and passive. The difference between these two types lies within how and when they transmit their stored information. An active RFID tag is connected to a power source, ge...
Computer technology has had a significant impact on retail stores. All but the smallest shops have replaced the old-fashioned cash register with a terminal linked to a computer system. The terminal may require that the clerk type in the code for the item; but more and more frequently the checkout counter include a bar-code scanner, a device that directly reads into the computer the UPC printed on each package.