Description
Mold management is a challenging task,
particularly in jewelry industry. Each
mold has limited life time by calculating from the frequency of usage. Using the mold beyond its lifetime can easily
damage the final product which is jewelry.
However, there is no data capture technology to effectively identify the
mold and count it. Bar label cannot be
used because it will be easily damaged and need manual scan. Our RFID Mold Management solution developed to
fix this drawback.
How it works
Identify
has developed a RFID Mold Management solution for this purpose. RFID tag is embedded in each mold. RFID readers are installed in the mold store
room and individual working station. Before taking the mold to the production, each
mold is read by the reader at the store room.
At this stage, Identify software will associate the usage of each mold
to the production order. The RFID reader
at the working station will count the number of usage of each mold
automatically. The software will notify
the staff when there is any mold which is close the expired period.
This allows complete automated
wireless identification of each mold without impacting the existing production processes. As the mold pass through a RFID reader, the
associated information of particular mold will be passed for further process. For example, the RFID reader at the mold store
room will enable us to know the type of mold being used in each production
order and increase the visibility on the number of mold in stock. This will enable us to make a plan on the
type of mold in stock. In addition, the
reader at the working station will automatically count the frequency of mold usage. We can avoid using the expired mold to avoid
product damage.
Benefits
- No manual operation
is required
- Provides error free in
data gathering process. Automatic
identification and notification whenever any mold is close to expired period.
- Increase the
visibility on the mold in stock
- Reduce the defected product resulting from using the expired mold
Applications: