Research on RFID Enabled Inventory Management for Material Containers

• Published in: Applied Mechanics and Materials Vol. 552; no. Process Equipment, Mechatronics Engineering and Material Science II; pp. 373 - 376
• Main Authors: Hu, Jing Yu, Chen, Xu Bing, Fu, Zhi Yuan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Zurich Trans Tech Publications Ltd 01.06.2014
• Subjects: Automation; Containers; Inventories; Inventory management; Manpower; Materials selection; Radio frequency identification; Stockpiling; RFID; Container; Inventory Management
• ISBN: 9783038351030; 3038351032
• ISSN: 1660-9336; 1662-7482; 1662-7482
• DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.552.373

In order to solve the practical issues that the management of container inventory is difficult, time-consuming and overuse of manpower in manufacturing enterprises.A method is presented for the material container inventory management, that is, through radio frequency identification technology to achieve positioning and quantity of material containers. Then, the traditional manual inventory becomes automatic inventory which occurs at each container’s transfer process. The material container inventory management based on RFID is designed in the paper through the introduction of the applied RFID technology, architecture system design, hardware selection and software design. At last the practicability and superiority of the system is tested by run the system in a factory.