First major deployment of Contactless Smart Cards and RF ID for quality assurance and production flow automation in the textile industry has been successfully completed by Score Information Technologies Limited at AMFL, Kolkata.
Through this integrated solution various problems of Textile Industry, in particular Quality Assurance, Work Flow Automation, stocks,
Machine maintenance, have been successfully addressed.Problems of false reporting, employee favours have been adequately addressed while substantial improvement in efficiency and improved production quality have motivated the customer to invest further and deploy the solution for other production sites as well.
Total of 1700 looms employing about 9000 people have now started using RF ID solution for their work flow automation. Integration with EFFECT an ERP solution from Score, has made it a complete solution. The environment was Oracle 8i, Visual Basic on Windows XP.
Infenion's RF ID chips popularly known as 'my-d' were used for the purpose. The RFID inlays has Intelligent 10 kbit EEPROM with contactless interface complying to ISO/IEC 15693 and security logic. my-d supports the "Chip Sharing Approach" (CSA). Secure memory sectors on my-d ICs enable different stakeholders in a (secure) supply chain to handle data. Defined access rules enable the authorized users to work with the relevant data. Score has adopted a smart way to exploit the economic potential of RFID technology. |
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