RFID: A “Must Investment” for Process Plants

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Item-Level Tagging – An Option for F&B Industries

For manufacturers and food service enterprises, source and item-level tagging enables compliance with initiatives to protect the food and drug supply and reduce counterfeit drugs. This also creates an opportunity for suppliers to reduce costs by standardising inventory based on a single technology and simplifying tagging tasks. Businesses gain cost containment, operational efficiency, improved inventory accuracy, and a method to achieve compliance mandates.

Optimise Internal Shipping and Receiving Processes

Even though shipping and receiving fall into the supply chain definition, these tasks can also operate within the enterprise to track intra-company transfers and shipments. EPCglobal, the organisation that developed the international RFID standards used in most compliance projects, estimated the minimum savings of using RFID in receiving applications to be between $0.01 and $0.03 per case6. The primary benefits include a reduction in the time and labour needed to process goods movements, and the elimination of data entry errors.

Companies can achieve these benefits by using RFID-enabled processes to manage receiving at their own distribution centers that do not require participation from customers, suppliers, or other supply chain participants.

Simplified Service and Maintenance Operations

Maintenance operations typically use RFID tags on equipment to serve as remote databases that house configuration data and service history information. Re-writable memory on RFID tags lets technicians access and update essential information in remote and challenging environments where other database or wireless access is unavailable.

Tagging helps ensure workers accurately identify equipment and components and confirm that the correct items are serviced. RFID technology offers flexible options One reason RFID is adaptable to so many processes is that the technology gives users a broad choice of RFID technologies. EPCglobal Gen 2-standard UHF (858-930 MHz) technology is typically required for compliance programs.

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