• Corpus ID: 163162084

Implementation of RFID Based Tracking System for Metal Transport Items in an Automotive Industry

@inproceedings{Chung2017ImplementationOR,
  title={Implementation of RFID Based Tracking System for Metal Transport Items in an Automotive Industry},
  author={Huong Yu Chung and Zamberi Jamaludin and Lokman Abdullah and Mohd Hisham Nordin},
  year={2017}
}

• H. Y. Chung, Z. Jamaludin, +1 author M. Nordin
• Published 2017
• Business

Traditional tracking system on material transport items is conducted manually with aid of workers. Manual data collection and data entry caused possible data error, time delay and labour force consumption. This in turns create chaos in determining inventory level, asset loss, and production scheduling. Automatic identification data capture (AIDC) technology has emerged over time as a strong alternative for material tracking in manufacturing industry. Among the AIDC technologies, radio frequency identification (RFID) technology has proven its effectiveness in item tracking at robust environment. RFID-based monitoring system has been shown to improve decision making on material handling and scheduling. However, for passive applications, its effectiveness is often diluted by the presence of metal and water in the vicinity, and speed of moving objects. This has encouraged the authors to develop and analyse the effectiveness of a passive RFID based tracking system for metal-based transport items. The developed system was validated at flush dock of a manufacturing company producing metal parts for automotive production. The system is used to detect metal transport items, in either empty or fully occupied state passing through a flush dock. The system was analysed for data accuracy and timeliness of the RFID technology. The results showed that metal in vicinity does reduce the data accuracy performance of RFID technology. Results collected showed positive outcomes with reduction in time delay between event time and data entry time. Further studies are necessary to extract optimum performance and ability of the RFID technology. Index Term— RFID, on-metal application, material handling, flush dock, returnable transport item