RFID

Chapter 4: The Automated Optical Inspection System 4.1 Automated Optical Inspection (AOI) Defects are always a critical aspect in wafer manufacturing. When it comes to manual defect detection process it’s always a tough story - difficult, time consuming, expensive and may cause a huge loss ratio to the industry. Precise accuracy achieved by a human inspection is often not sufficient and least accurate. Automatic or automated optical inspection (AOI) is a technique used in machines, where…

Introduction The Healthcare Industry, with global health spending to increase at a rate of 5.3% per year for next four years(2014-17)[1], is one of the biggest industries. Despite of the high growth rate, there is an enormous pressure on healthcare providers due to high costs, government regulations, increasing competition, and requirement of delivering higher quality services. In this industry, supply chain costs constitute a significant fraction of the total costs. Further, its Supply chain…

Walmart began with the goal to provide customers with the goods they wanted whenever and wherever they wanted them and focused on developing cost structures that allowed it to offer low everyday pricing therefore they concentrated on developing a highly structured and advanced supply chain management strategy to exploit and enhance this competitive advantage and assume market leadership position. The evolution of Wal-Mart’s supply chain includes three elements: distribution practices,…

idea of this machine is like of an X-ray machine in the airport. Instead of using it for security system, this machine is used to detect bar codes or printed Universal Product Code (UPC) number of products by utilizing Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and Optical Character Recognition (OCR). By using this machine, the cashiers just need to lift the products from the cart onto the machine's conveyor belt, and the conveyor belt will automatically run and allow the products to go through a…

The important characteristics of IR is that it can’t penetrate walls or other opaque materials. Typically, with an IR-based system, a receiver is placed in every location in which a tagged device might be found. The tagged device emits IR light, and if the tagged device is in the same room as a receiver its position is known. The major advantage of an IR-based system is that as the oldest and most installed positioning technology, solutions are generally available from a variety of sources…

Misty Uribe said it was a gorgeous sunday in march when her son watched a neighbor friend shoot another friend in the face. She never thought that a 8 year old would find a loaded gun and fire at another boy playing cops and robbers. Misty said her son came in shaking head to toe, from returning from outside, he told “so and so shot so and so with a gun” she did not think it was real, she believed it was a bb gun or nerf gun, he kept saying “No mommy, it was a real gun.” By luck the boy lived,…

Their staff would manually input shipments into its proprietary vendor management system which would notify its transportation management system for consolidation and optimization. Target was in fact making transportation decisions with very limited visibility to the shipments. This led to an excessive number of costly less than truckload moves. The company was unable to continue operating in this manner as the business continued to experience growth. Target was exploring ways to improve its…

maintain the integrity of the pharmaceutical industry. Lastly, Pfizer also suggested using RFID tags. These are radio frequency identification tags that they use within their company. The tag acts as a tracking device for pharmacies and wholesalers. It is placed on the product packaging as a unique product code that is specific to Pfizer and specific to that particular drug. If the packaging is missing this RFID tag, it is a counterfeit and should not be used. Currently. Pfizer is the first…

Value Chain Analysis Primary Activities: Logistics: Wal-Mart comprises of a massive network of 166 distribution centers all over the United States. Roughly 81% of all products are shipped through these distribution centers. These distribution centers are designated depending on the type of merchandise that will be delivered and distributed from each facility type. (MWPVL International) Wal-Mart also maintains a large quantity of corporate owned fleet vehicles along with…

satisfied. To improve their customers experience, Delta operations team at their various airports decided to investigate the matter. Once they identified the causes, they came up with an effective solution to combat the problem. Delta implemented the RFID system. This system allows customers to track their luggage via their mobile devices by using the Delta app or their website. Delta is the first to use this system. According to Silk (2016), “When Delta finishes installing this system, it plans…