Textile printing factories receive large shipments of fabric bundles for printing in several shades of the same color, which are difficult to distinguish. This can easily lead to errors, which can cost the factory up to US$100,000, according to Brian Ma, Sales Representative at GIGA-TMS. To cut back on errors, a top te
Textile printing factories receive large shipments of fabric bundles for printing in several shades of the same color, which are difficult to distinguish. This can easily lead to errors, which can cost the factory up to US$100,000, according to Brian Ma, Sales Representative at GIGA-TMS. To cut back on errors, a top textile printing factory in Vietnam chose to use a passive UHF RFID solution by GIGA-TMS to help detect errors before they became problems.
According to Ma, a passive UHF RFID solution was chosen for this project for several reasons. First, UHF RFID has a longer reading range than either low-frequency (LF) or high-frequency (HF) RFID tags, which is useful in a high volume industrial setting; it is also highly configurable and reusable. In this particular case, the reusable nature of the UHF RFID tag was a deciding factor when opting to deploy RFID technology. Unlike barcodes that cannot be reused, some UHF RFID tags can be reused hundreds of times and can withstand extreme temperatures. In this case, the factory needed to be able to reuse the tags at least 700 times in extremely high temperatures. These advantages, however, do come at a price — at over $1 per tag this technology does not come cheap. Despite this, ROI will come to surface as long as end users are willing to invest in the initial costs.
Additionally, RFID information can be used to see which employees are most efficient. Since tags record the duration of an item at a station, management can see which workers work most efficiently and which workers waste the most time.
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