RFID

Industrial
Manufacturing
Lean
Management The global decentralized commercial
VIoT ecochain

December 2017
Practical
Project
 CONTENTS
CONTENTS...................................................................................................................................................................II

1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................................................3

2 Overview .............................................................................................................................................................3

2.1 Project status ..........................................................................................................................................3

2.2 Project demand analysis .........................................................................................................................4

2.3 Introduction to RFID technology.............................................................................................................4

3 Solution ...............................................................................................................................................................6

3.1 Intelligent mixed production line ............................................................................................................6

3.1.1 Carrier application ......................................................................................................................7

3.1.2 Workplace application ................................................................................................................7

3.1.3 Conveyer line application............................................................................................................7

3.1.4 Application effect ........................................................................................................................8

4 Blockchain application ........................................................................................................................................8

4.1 Blockchain 2.0 concept ...........................................................................................................................8

4.2 Advantages of blockchain 2.0 .................................................................................................................9

4.3 Blockchain application explanation ........................................................................................................9

5 Introduction to the core equipment ................................................................................................................ 11

5.1 Electronic RFID tag ............................................................................................................................... 11

5.2 RFID handheld equipment ................................................................................................................... 12

5.3 RFID antenna........................................................................................................................................ 13

5.4 RFID reader .......................................................................................................................................... 14

6 Solution advantage analysis............................................................................................................................. 15

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1 Introduction

At present, smart manufacturing has become the industry’s center of attention. After the Ministry of

Industry and Information Technology approved 46 smart manufacturing pilot demonstration projects and 94

smart manufacturing projects in 2015 and released the guideline on establishment of the national intelligent

manufacturing standard system (2015 version), many enterprises are eager to try and reduce costs by smart

manufacturing promotion. Everyone tries to be flexible to respond to the market changes and meet customers’

needs better.

2 Overview

The solution applies to automatic collection and management of product information in processing

workshops of large and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises. It utilizes RFID wireless radio frequency

technology and combines production robots, transmission lines, AGV, and processing equipment. It reduces

misreading and missed reading caused by manual operations, ensures seamless docking with the top layer

manufacturing information system to realize production process mixing, visualization, and intellectualization.

2.1 Project status

At present, manufacturing industry faces the following problems:

 Product process parameters cannot be transferred quickly: each product needs manual processing,

transmission, and confirmation of parameters, which is time and labor consuming;

 Mixed production cannot be achieved: inability to identify different kinds of products and mix the

production;

 Products cannot be docked with automated equipment: loader/unloader robots, mixed conveyer

lines, AGV etc.;

 Manual scanning is time and labor consuming: because production scale expansion requires

manual performance of each operation, a sharp increase in human resources use is caused;

 Fixed-mode scanning recognition rate is low: since paper barcode can be affected by dust and oil

on the production site, barcode recognition rate is low, the accurate operation of the support

management system during production line / assembly line information management cannot be
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 achieved.

2.2 Project demand analysis

Several requirements arise out of the problems existing on a project site:

 Recording process quality and tracing information carrier;

 Realization of mixed sorting and flexible production;

 Products docking with automated equipment, smart identification, product information

transmission and parameters;

 Barcode system upgrade, usage of RFID technology to realize smart scanning, reduce

environmental impact, and reduce labor costs.

2.3 Introduction to RFID technology

RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) is one of the top ten important technologies of the 21 st century. At

the same time, with its unique advantages and potential in various industries, it is the core technology of the

Internet of Things.

RFID is a non-contact automatic recognition technology. Its basic underlying principle is utilization of

radio frequency signal and space coupling (inductance or electromagnetic coupling) or transmission

characteristics of radar reflection. It realizes automatic recognition of identified objects. In RFID, a tag is a

carrier. It communicates with a reader to access a system platform. It realizes the intelligent interconnection of

human, equipment, and the system. Besides that, data analysis and full understanding of business processes

(业务洞) can be achieved through a management platform.

As the Internet of things core, RFID technology is most widely used in storage management. Its most

important advantage is non-contact data acquisition and RFID tag read / write operations. Besides that, high

recognition rate, high adaptability, resistance to light, temperature, humidity, dust, grease, and chemical

reagents are the reasons why RFID technology is widely used in special environments. Warehouse

management software utilizes RFID technology to collect data and manage daily business, to realize automatic

identification, information sharing and tracking, and further enhance market competitiveness in the area of

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enterprise production efficiency.

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3 Solution

Using RFID technology, enterprises can realize an intelligent mixed production line .

3.1 Intelligent mixed production line

To address the problem of inability of quick product technological parameters transfer on an enterprise

processing line, RFID technology can be used to realize the task of information exchange with automated

equipment, improve information collection and processing efficiency, and realize flexibility and

intellectualization of the manufacturing process.

Fig. 1. Processing line smart mixed production process

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3.1.1 Carrier application

 When an RFID tag is installed on an equipment board/pallet carrier, product information is

written into an electronic label and the production process information carrier is built.

Fig. 2. RFID application as an industrial information carrier

3.1.2 Workplace application

 When RFID reader-writer equipment suitable for industrial environment application is mounted

on a processing line, it can read the product information carrier, recognize product information

automatically. Together with the upstream control system, using the processing technology, data

collection and key equipment docking can be achieved to realize the information exchange with

the automated equipment.

Fig. 3. RFID application on a production workplace

3.1.3 Conveyer line application

 When RFID equipment suitable for industrial environment application is mounted on a

workshop conveyer line, RFID tags with such characteristics as oil resistance, easy recognition,

and non-contact reading mode can replace traditional barcode labels and quickly collect product

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 According to the information on different products, automatic processing workplace can be

organized to perform automatic sorting and realize mixed production.

Fig. 4. RFID application on a production conveyer line

3.1.4 Application effect

Through utilization of the RFID technology, loader/unloader robot, conveyer line, and machine tool

equipment real-time communication can be realized. Automated processing workplaces can be organized for

different products. After loading process parameters, automatic multi-workplace sorting, flexible

multi-operation production, and multi-type mixed assembly can be realized. Through automation, data

collection rate can be increased up to 99%. At each production line, manual scanning time is reduced by more

than 90%; production data accuracy is increased up to 90%.

4 Blockchain application

4.1 Blockchain 2.0 concept

Blockchain has distributed data storage, p2p connection, consensus mechanism, encryption algorithm

etc. new IT application models. Apart from the original consensus mechanism, its 2.0 generation has

programmability as the second key feature. Now according to various business demands, it can create more

precise smart contracts.

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 4.2 Advantages of blockchain 2.0
Decentralization Smart contract

Reduces performance bottleneck Programmable, no

& common maintenance caused 01 06 ambiguity

by the center

Anonymity
Openness
Transaction information is
6 big
Information 02 pro’s 05 independent of trust to an
transparency identity

Information cannot be
Consensus mechanism
03 04 tampered/forged
Decentralized trust The majority of it is ensured by
the principles of justice and
cryptology 多数即正义、密码学
保障

4.3 Blockchain application explanation

Take the industrial pallet storage system as an example. When a warehouse keeper receives goods, he

writes the related attribute information to the corresponding RFID tags and stores the information on the

goods in the logistics center database using an RFID scanner connected to a control PC terminal. Having

finished this, by means of smart contracts, the system releases the information on the goods in the form of a
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transaction. At this point, the information on product style, size, design elements, and other related data is

already uploaded to the chain. Likewise, the information on stock-in, stock-out, and sample sending to

customers will be uploaded to the chain and stored there. In this way, it will be easy for various links to

cooperate to reduce costs and follow up sample source tracing etc.

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5 Introduction to the core equipment

5.1 Electronic RFID tag

Product disposable electronic RFID tag Carrier/pallet electronic RFID tag

This solution utilizes ultrahigh frequency electronic tags with EPC GEN 2/NXP G2XL chips imprinted into

sample shoes labels. Below are the technical specifications:

 Chip model: Alien H3 (customizable);

 Chip protocol: ISO 18000-6C，EPC Classic1 Generation 2;

 Operating frequency: 860—960 Mhz;

 EPC area: 240bit;

 TID area: unique 32bit ID;

 Reserved area: can store a kill password and a reserve password;

 Memory: user data storage area 512 bit；

 Storage time: 10 years;

 Rewrite cycles: can be rewritten 100,000 times;

 Etched aluminum antenna;

 Operating ambient temperature (°C): –25 to +85.

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5.2 RFID handheld equipment

Technical specifications:

 Supported protocol: ISO18000-6B, ISO18000-6C (EPC CLASS 1 G2) protocol;

 Operating system: Android;

 Storage: ROM: 256 MB / 512 MB NAND Flash, RAM: 256 MB / 512 MB Mobile DDR, expandable with

SD cards up to 32 GB;

 Battery: 3.7 V 3400 mAh Li-ion battery (150 mAh spare battery);

 Operating ambient temperature (°C): –10 to +50;

 Relative humidity (%): 5 to 95.

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5.3 RFID antenna

IOT-A210 ultrahigh-frequency directional antenna:

 Frequency: 902 to 928 MHz;

 Signal enhancement ratio: 6 to 9 dBi;

 Distance: 6 to 10 m (depends on the environment);

 Standing wave: <1.5;

 Impedance: 50 Ohm;

 Polarization mode: circular polarization / linear polarization;

 Dimensions: 150*150*20 mm;

 Outer covering: ABS front, aluminum shell back;

 Connector: SMA N Female (customizable).

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5.4 RFID reader

IOT-R210 stationary reader is a high-performance UHF electronic tag reader-writer. It is designed with

completely independent intellectual property rights. Combined with a proprietary efficient signal processing

algorithm, while maintaining high recognition rate, it can achieve fast reading and writing of electronic tags. It

can be widely used in the fields of warehousing logistics, intelligent store, asset management, book

management, financial management, production management, ticket management etc.

 Tag protocol: EPCglobal Gen 2 (ISO 18000-6C) DRM supported;

 Antenna connector: 4-way TNC connector, supports 4 individual antennae;

 RF output: independent read and write mode, 5 to 31.5 dBm output (1.4 W), ±0.5 dBm adjustable;

 Operating frequency: 902 to 928 MHz;

 Operating ambient temperature (°C): –20 to +60;

 Storage temperature (°C): –30 to +70;

 Relative humidity (%): 5 to 95, no condensation.

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6 Solution advantage analysis

Below are the advantages of using lean management based on the RFID technology for industrial

manufacturing:

1. Flexible production process: the information interaction between a product and automation

equipment is realized, automatic workplace distribution is performed according to the working

procedure, mixed production is achieved;

2. Manufacturing process intellectualization: quick automatic and efficient data collection, realization of

product traceability;

3. High-efficiency lean management: high-efficiency data collection, greatly reduced labor costs,

increased enterprise production efficiency, improved enterprise competitiveness;

4. Anti-theft alarm: RFID entrance guard system: effective prevention of samples from being taken out of

the exhibition hall or the sample library, enterprise assures produced goods protection.

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