RFID Controlling The "Choke Points"

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•Case Study: RFID Controlling The "Choke Points"

Freightliner-Western Star, the best-selling brand of heavy-duty Class 8 trucks in North America, affirmed its commitment to innovation and technology through the deployment of a worldclass RFID solution to track inventory replenishment throughout their manufacturing facility located in Portland, Oregon.

Freightliner-Western Star’s management team, headed by Louis Fleischer, Plant Automation – Project Manager, was looking for a way to accurately and automatically track parts movement from inventory to the factory floor.

The process called for parts needed on the production line to be put into inventory totes, placed on mobile tugs (approximately 6-7 per tug) and then transferred onto the Shop Floor. The empty totes are returned to the warehouse in groups of 10 to 12 per tug for replenishment. The Portland facility utilizes approximately 750 totes in 5 different sizes.

The previous method of tracking the parts was labor intensive from a data collection and data input standpoint, as well as, beset with erroneous data.

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