RFID offers up to 30% cut in labor cost through smarter inventory and production
RFID enables the fast and reliable identification of hundreds of items in milliseconds, making it ideal for streamlining production and intralogistics. From tracking raw materials and components to monitoring work-in-progress and finished goods, RFID helps eliminate manual errors, improve traceability, and ensure real-time inventory visibility—boosting throughput, reducing waste, and supporting just-in-time operations.
The power of RFID for Manufacturers
A Turck Vilant Systems production tracking system with RFID is the globally trusted way of making almost any manufacturing process more efficient.
Introducing our RFID touch points throughout your production facility helps our customers track materials, inventory and assets and ensure visibility and higher throughput.
Modern track & trace solutions REDUCE WASTE in the form of
MATERIALS: Optimized inventory management ensures cost-effective JIT / JOT deliveries and minimizes component overstocking
EXTRA MILEAGE: Reducing shipment errors helps avoid unnecessary back-and-forth deliveries.
TIME: Replacing barcodes in production line doubles the production speed, as automatic identification needs no manual work.
EXCESS in PRODUCTION: Using RFID to track material input in the beginning of the production line and comparing used materials to final product quality helps guide suppliers and select only best materials to minimize scrap.
Automatic Goods Receipt
Distribution centres, warehouses, production plants as well as sales locations benefit from literally no-touch goods receiving. Using RFID shifts any company from having to scan items manually to stock or not scanning at all, to automatic registering of materials and inventory. The shipments may be registered on box, pallet, roller cage or item level – dependent on the type of data needed.
Material Availability
Raw material on-demand availability is key for lean production. When Forklifts equipped with RFID readers know what they carry on their fork and their movement from one hall to another is registered, this keeps material levels updated at all times and feeds data to production planning systems.
Quality
Extra visibility to the production process as well as to materials used never hurt anyone. Quality control in manufacturing can benefit from RFID, which offers a cost effective method to monitor tooling as well as material feeding during production.
e-Kanban
Production units with vast material flows may struggle with material obtainability. To ensure material availability many use a 2-bin based material consumption tracking, where empty material bins trigger an automatic replenishment. RFID speeds up the process as, empty bins are automatically recognized with on-site RFID readers and thus refills are triggered immediately.
Inventory
Inaccurate stock levels of raw material and spares may lead to delivery problems. Inaccurate stock levels of semi finished or finished goods may lead to overproduction. Using RFID in production processes improves stock accuracy and thus reduces the need for manual inventory counts. Availability of materials, spares and finished goods is ensured.
RFID enablement
Companies looking to automate their logistical process need to attach RFID tags onto items that will later in the process be followed. A complete RFID System enables the automatic generation of the tags with correct data, adding them onto a database and finally applying them to the item in question. Furthermore the same RFID tags can be used by third parties, such as suppliers.
Loading Verification
Delivery inaccuracies cause customer dissatisfaction, missed deadlines and cost. RFID verifies the correctness of shipments before they are loaded for outbound logistics. All shipments are equipped with RFID tags and the loading doors with RFID gates, which are able to detect products loaded onto trucks. The RFID system is in constant interaction with the Warehouse Management System (WMS), which manages the shipment.
Tracking of returning carriers / RTIs
Different vendors ship materials and spare parts on trays, pallets, cages and other types of returning carriers, in short RTIs. Shared RTI pools help streamline logistics by providing all actors a standardized option for transporting their goods. However, the managing of RTIs, often shared by hundreds of vendors can be cumbersome. RFID and RTLS tracking solutions help automate pool management and reduce RTI loss.
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How to get started?
Our Experts are available to help you with RTLS & RFID implementation, planning, KPI setting, installation, tests, training and any other tasks you may have.