Visualization of the production line enables the enterprise management to discover the status of products in production and the operation of the production line in real time. The system mainly consists of assembly lines, RFID data collection systems, work-in-progress and workstations. Products in production move on the assembly line. When they arrive at the workstation, workers remove the recycled products for spare parts assembly. After completion, they are put back on the assembly line until all processes are completed.

System composition

The system is mainly composed of RFID data acquisition system, workstation controller, kanban and path selection actuator.

System Advantages

1. Data collection and status monitoring are the core of industrial manufacturing

RFID technology uses instruments, equipment, and technical means to collect equipment status or equipment failure problems to identify processes based on equipment changes. Real-time monitoring of CNC machine tools collects various status information of machine tools through DNC network and machine tool control, and can obtain the operating status of machine tools through the network. It can also collect the current, power consumption, and vibration of the machine tool to judge the operating status of the equipment and issue fault alarm prompts.

2. The hardware of the machine tool equipment monitoring system consists of sensors, data acquisition equipment, and network communication equipment

Industrial manufacturing requires multi-faceted technologies to achieve work tasks in complex environments. Through RFID tags, readers, wireless sensor network products, and combined with barcodes, PLCs and other technologies, it can collect real-time heterogeneous data from multiple sources such as materials, work-in-progress, execution equipment, and tooling, and track and trace the genealogy of products, providing basic data for enterprise production and operation control. Through efficient integration with ERP, MES and other systems, the full life cycle management of products can be achieved.

3. Positioning, tracking and scheduling of public manufacturing resources

In industrial manufacturing systems, some industrial transport vehicles collect data, such as engineering forklifts, workshop flatbed trucks, etc., and there are some public resources such as on-site technicians. These resources need to be reasonably scheduled and responded to quickly, which greatly improves the operating efficiency of the entire manufacturing system. By using products and technologies such as ground-sensing RFID tags, UWB, state judgment sensors, and vehicle-mounted terminals, by attaching electronic tags to some engineering vehicles such as forklifts, the spatial location positioning, operation trajectory tracking, idle and busy state judgment, task dispatch scheduling and calling of resources such as on-site maintenance/technicians can be carried out to optimize the configuration of public resources and improve the rapid response capability of the manufacturing system. Just like the automated forklifts at large docks.

4. RFID technology can implement monitoring and visual management of the production plan execution process

Enhance the timeliness of production planning and scheduling, and greatly reduce human errors in work. Through products such as workstation readers, electronic pallets, and RFID tag pendants, a visual production process monitoring platform can be realized to track the entire process from rough to finished product, record the automatic reporting of products, the number of completed products/batches, the current process of the workpiece, the execution equipment and operators of each process, the actual working hours of each process, etc., to provide original data for planning and scheduling, line materials, on-site logistics, and quality traceability, and also provide a basis for enterprises to carry out value engineering. Forming a product traceability tracking system will greatly improve the credibility of the company's products and establish a complete quality system.