Overview
Clearly explains how to benefit from RFID technologies in production and manufacturing, and how to design realistic cost-benefit calculations
Details how to benefit from RFID technologies in inter-enterprise business collaboration scenarios
Describes first-hand experiences and visions for exploiting RFID technologies using SAP’s ERP software
Co-authored by the leading developers and researchers from SAP’s Research Center for Future Manufacturing and Plant-to-Business Integration, its MES development partner MPDV, and Humboldt University in Berlin
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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About this book
Information systems for manufacturing often follow a three-layer architecture based on an enterprise resource planning (ERP) layer (for order planning), a manufacturing execution system (MES) layer (for factory control), and a shop floor layer (for machine control). Future requirements on flexibility and adaptability require a much closer integration of ERP systems with the manufacturing floor. To achieve this integration, an MES often pushes customer orders to the manufacturing floor in a flexible manner. Moreover, a large amount of shop floor data needs to be filtered and fed into business planning applications such as production planning or supply chain management. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chips can play an important role in the collection and management of such data.
Günther, Kletti, and Kubach explain the potential advantages of using RFID technology in a modern manufacturing and supply chain context. Areas of emphasis include integration of RFID data into legacy IT architectures, RFID-MES-ERP integration, and cost-benefit considerations. Their presentation is not restricted to intra-company production planning, but also emphasizes the benefits of inter-company collaboration. Six case studies based on SAP’s ERP systems and MPDV’s MES solution show how to successfully implement cross-company supply chain integration using RFID technology.
Reviews
From the reviews:
"A ‘shop floor to top floor’ examination of RFID’s role in various production applications and how the technology can be deployed efficiently and cost-effectively. The compact, 163-page book serves as a guide for any manufacturing business contemplating a move to RFID for one or more applications. … presents a detailed and focused overview of a key sector, keeps its readers’ interests at heart and doesn’t wander into superfluous areas." (Radio Frequency Identification Journal, August, 2008)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: RFID in Manufacturing
Authors: Oliver P. Günther, Wolfhard Kletti, Uwe Kubach
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76454-0
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-76453-3Published: 27 March 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-09531-3Published: 19 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-76454-0Published: 04 March 2008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 163
Number of Illustrations: 47 b/w illustrations
Topics: IT in Business, Industrial and Production Engineering, Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet), Operations Management, Control, Robotics, Mechatronics, Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing