Manufacturing industry faces a number of challenges that RFID can help with. RFID solutions are found in the control of custom manufacturing; they can be used to help manage warranty and goods return processes; they can be used to track components and sub-assemblies during manufacturing or they can be used to help authenticate products in a world where counterfeit products devalue brands or even cause safety risks. CoreRFID has implemented solutions across many of these areas.

For example, as demand for customised products grows so do the problems of ensuring that each customer receives exactly what they order. One technique to help improve the reliability of customer shipments is to institute continuous checking along the production line that each step is adding the right component for the order being dealt with.

RFID can help with this by tagging individual components and checking that all components belong together for a particular customer or a particular shipment. The supply of faulty items is reduced and so are the costs of making multiple versions of a product available.

CoreRFID has developed a solution for this problem. Using a combination of high performance RFID tags, readers and a software system designed for use with customised manufacturing processes, the Pick'N Mix solution is quick and easy to introduce.

Learn more about it the Pick 'N' Mix Solution by downloading this Solution Overview.

Other examples of manufacturing applications provided by CoreRFID include:

• Systems for monitoring high value tools used in diamond cutting for Diamond Trading Co.
• RFID reader systems for contract electronics manufacturing for Axiom Manufacturing Systems.