Distillery Gains Efficiency With RFID Barrel Tracking System

KWV required a turnkey RFID solution, including system analysis and feasibility study, system design and specification, full system implementation, training and technical support.

The RFID system requirements included the tracking of the oak-barrel life cycle, from ‘forest' through manufacture to cellar, providing an automated asset management system integrating into the existing Systems Applications and Products (SAP) asset register; and tracking the liquid content on a batch basis through the distilling and maturation process.

The RFID system had to enable the tracking and management of assets (individual barrels), batches (multiple barrels), and product, or liquid content.