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January 27, 2010
•White Paper: RFID In Manufacturing Control
By Markus Weinländer
In today's competitive worldwide economy, manufacturing operations must react quickly and flexibly to ever stronger differentiating customer demands while maintaining or increasing competitiveness with regard to their own production costs. One potential solution involves applying RFID (radio-frequency identification systems) to the manufacturing process infrastructure in order to facilitate an expanding degree of customization (ie. serialized products), while keeping production costs stable. This paper will explore this RFID application arena and help to answer the question "Is RFID Worthwhile in Production".
There are many measures in production that enable the cost efficient manufacture of individualized serial products. Suitable manufacturing technologies and machinery can be applied, which enable adaptation to every single workpiece. One example are CNC-supported Page 4 of 10 © Siemens AG processing machines, which enable the fully automatic processing of individual pieces if accordingly integrated into the IT control systems and interlinked in the production flow.
Apart from insensitivity to many of the environmental influences that hamper visual codes, a second advantage of RFID is the possibility of rewriting the data carriers. Once printed, a 2D code cannot be changed. Together with the high memory capacity of RFID transponders (up to 32 Kbytes), remote automation architectures can be realized, which clearly reduces the effort for local data maintenance.
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