This paper proposes an innovative real-time manufacturing cost tracking system (RT-MCT) which integrates the concepts of lean manufacturing and RFID. The RT-MCT is developed for tying lean operational aspects and financial costs together in real-time. The new real-time cost tracking method is vital in identifying the root causes of redundant costs and pinpointing the most costly root causes and their locations so that their elimination becomes a top priority. Furthermore, RT-MCT mirrors the monetary impacts of implementing lean improvements at the various value stream stages in today’s mass-customization production environments that support the decision-making strategies. The system presented is validated through building a simulation model along with extensive calculations to demonstrate that the system is physically implementable using the RFID real-time data.

RFID-enabled smart real-time manufacturing cost tracking system

Radio frequency identification RFID is a promising technology which can potentially assist in enhancing the efficiency of manufacturing by reorganising and optimising internal operations, such as purchasing, warehousing, management, and distribution of materials in the production, as well as in external supply chain management. RFID makes it possible to identify individual objects in the production automatically and wirelessly, so it has an increasing potential in various applications which can make manufacturing more efficient and productive. This survey provides an insight to the application of RFID technology in the management of manufacturing and supply chain. The survey includes a summary on the main purposes of use and on the main application fields of the technology. In manufacturing, typical application targets of RFID are related to warehouse management, process management, tool management, supply chain management, and life cycle management. In addition, the main users, i.e. those manufacturing branches which have been the primary users of RFID this far, are listed in this survey to reveal the current industrial practice. Furthermore, the current challenges in implementing the technology are discussed, as well as the most potential future manufacturing applications and research directions. The sources used for this study are original peer-reviewed reviews and journal articles, conference papers, and web references.

RFID technology in manufacturing and supply chain

Traditional restaurant service is typically passive: Waiters must interact with customers directly before processing their orders. However, a high-quality service system should be customer centered; it should immediately recognize customer identities, favorite menus, and expenditure records to provide customer-centric services. To achieve this goal, this study integrates radio frequency identification (RFID), wireless local area network, database technologies, and a menu recommender to develop an intelligent e-restaurant for customer-centric service. This system enables waiters to immediately identify customers via RFID-based membership cards and then actively recommend the most appropriate menus through menu recommender for customers. Experimental results that are obtained from a case study conducted in two Taipei restaurants indicate that the proposed system has practical potential in providing customer-centric service.

Developing an Intelligent e-Restaurant With a Menu Recommender for Customer-Centric Service

This paper presents a novel radio-frequency identification (RFID)-based smart freezer using a new inventory-management scheme for extremely low temperature environments. The proposed solution utilizes backpressure inventory control, systematic selection of antenna configuration, and antenna power control. The proposed distributed-inventory-control (DIC) scheme dictates the amount of items transferred through the supply chain. When a high item visibility is ensured, the control scheme maintains the desired level of inventory at each supply-chain echelon. The performance of the DIC scheme is guaranteed using a Lyapunov-based analysis. The proposed RFID antenna-configuration design methodology coupled with locally asymptotically stable distributed power control ensures a 99% read rate of items while minimizing the required number of RFID antennas in the confined cold chain environments with non-RF-friendly materials. The proposed RFID-based smart-freezer performance is verified through simulations of supply chain and experiments on an industrial freezer testbed operating at -100degF.

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RFID-Based Smart Freezer

The discrete manufacturing workshops usually suffer from a bottleneck of capturing and collection of real-time field information, which is important for improving reactivity capability of production system, during they organize production adopting JIT (Just-In-Time) mode. As a rapid, real-time, accurate information collection tools, RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) improved JIT production to a great extent. This paper proposes an approach of Kanban management based on RFID, and designs the framework of RFID-based Kanban management information system. A prototype system is finished in detail eventually.

A research on integrated application of RFID-based lean manufacturing

Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology has become an important driver in the production and logistics activities of today's information-based industries and economies. With the innovative developments in information and communication technologies, companies focus more on how these changes can be implemented and promoted in order to improve their value-added processes. This paper presents one such implementation approach for the monitoring and analysis of a discrete manufacturing environment using the RFID technology. Our aim is to bridge the gap between the physical flow of materials on the shop floor and manufacturing information and execution systems by allowing a rapid development and deployment of an RFID-based manufacturing automation solution.

Design of an RFID-based Manufacturing Monitoring and Analysis System

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O. Simsek

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Design of an RFID-based Manufacturing Monitoring and Analysis System

Numerical Modeling for Engineering Analysis, Designing and Monitoring of Support Systems for Twin-Tube Tunnel