RFID-based production operation management for multi-varieties and small-batch production

The rapid changing market is making manufacturing systems increasingly trend to multi-varieties and small-batch production. It drives that strict production operation management in detail is done. In this paper RFID tags are introduced to overcome difficulty to identity important production elements in workshop. A tag data model of production element is proposed, and the architecture and integration operation mode of corresponding production operation management system are established. Then, an information fusion model of real-time heterogeneous production data from multi-sources and implementation methods of rapidly reconfigurable production operation management system based on component are presented. The application results in a motorcycle assembly line show the production efficiency and quality are obviously improved.