Nov. 14, 2006
Editor’s Note
The Right Tool
Manufacturers have found radio frequency identification technology
particularly useful in tracking both their assets and their
products. Electronics giant Toshiba, for instance, has been using
UHF Gen 2 RFID tags to track laptops at its plant in Regensburg,
Germany. The plant configures and ships custom computers to
customers throughout Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
Earlier this year, Toshiba began installing Sensormatic SensorID
Agile 2 Readers from Tyco/ADT, B-SX4 RFID label printers made by
Toshiba TEC and UPM Raflatac's Rafsec G2 Short Dipole tags.
Production employees affix the labels to each laptop's box during
packaging.
Since implementing RFID, Toshiba notes a 57 percent boost in its
productivity, reporting that the technology has eased bottlenecks
and improved its order fulfillment process. According to Toshiba,
adding RFID to its operations has cut the overall time required
to process laptops through its warehouse by 90 percent. Currently,
the plant tags 9,500 laptops per day, utilizing about 2 million
tags annually; eventually, the company expects that number to double.
Crown Equipment, a manufacturer of electric lift trucks, has also
reported improved business thanks to its RFID implementation. At
its New Bremen, Ohio, plant, which operates day and night,
employees access 10,000 drill bits, rubber gloves and other tools
per shift. The firm says its tools were frequently misplaced and
unrestocked because it lacked a way to track them. To alleviate
this issue, Crown purchased
an RFID portal designed to track the movements of
those items.
Crown installed its first WinWare CribMaster Accu-Port at the
facility's tool crib in June. The system has been so successful,
saving Crown up to $300 per day, that the manufacturer installed
a second portal at the same site this month. Crown hopes to have
10 portals operating throughout its five facilities by 2010. Like
Toshiba, Crown has found RFID to be the right tool for the job.
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