Design of an RFID-based Manufacturing Monitoring and Analysis System

Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology has become an important driver in the production and logistics activities of today´s information-based industries and economies. With the innovative developments in information and communication technologies, companies focus more on how these changes can be implemented and promoted in order to improve their value-added processes. This paper presents one such implementation approach for the monitoring and analysis of a discrete manufacturing environment using the RFID technology. Our aim is to bridge the gap between the physical flow of materials on the shop floor and manufacturing information and execution systems by allowing a rapid development and deployment of an RFID-based manufacturing automation solution.