In modern manufacturing enterprises, moulds as one of the core production resources, bear the repetitive, high-intensity work tasks. Especially in the injection moulding, die-casting, stamping and other industries, an enterprise often has hundreds or even thousands of sets of moulds, every day in different production lines, workshops, warehouses between the flow. The traditional way of mould tracking is inefficient, and it is difficult to meet the management needs of rapid response and efficient collaboration.
Ahora, with the development of industrial automation and intelligent manufacturing, more and more companies are beginning to use RFID radio frequency identification technology to achieve mould tracking digital and refined management, from ‘where the moulds go’ to ‘moulds here’, to achieve real Visualisation management.
The limitations of the traditional tracking method
En el pasado, the flow and use of moulds rely on manual registration, paper forms or simple barcode system. These methods have the following typical problems:
- Information lag: manual manual entry is required, data is not timely, slow update.
- Difficulty in finding: Mould storage is scattered, the number is confusing, and it often takes a lot of time to find.
- Unclear responsibility: frequent changes in the use of moulds, the person responsible for the problem is difficult to trace.
- Fragile and easy to lose: labels are easy to fall off, mould mixing, and even the case of ‘missing’ moulds.
This ‘people looking for mould’ passive mode, not only affect the production rhythm, but also may lead to quality abnormalities and safety risks.
RFID empowers the whole process of mould tracking
RFID technology through the installation of anti-metal tags on the mould, with fixed read-write, handheld terminals and back-office system, to achieve the full life cycle of the mould digital management and real-time tracking.
Posicionamiento en tiempo real, improve the efficiency of finding
As long as the mould passes or stays in the RFID reading area, the system will automatically identify and record the position of the mould, realize ‘second positioning’, greatly reduce the manual search time.
Automatic collection of usage records
Every time the mould is in and out of the warehouse, on-line, off-line, maintenance and other information will be automatically recorded, the system does not require manual intervention, data uploaded in real time to ensure that the information is complete and accurate.
Anti-Misuse and Anti-Mismatch
The system can set the matching rules between moulds and equipment/products, automatically identifying whether the mould model matches with the process, avoiding defective products caused by wrong moulds.
Full process traceability
Every record of mould flow, use and maintenance is kept in the system, with clear responsibility, which is easy to trace and analyse the problems in the future.
Typical application cases
In an automotive parts injection moulding enterprises, the original use of manual registration of the mould to find an average of more than 15 minutos. After the introduction of RFID, with the help of fixed read-write and handheld PDA, to achieve the mould that scanning that check, find time reduced to less than 1 minute, production efficiency significantly improved.
Another electronic product manufacturer through the RFID system, the construction of mould data model, the development of scientific maintenance cycle, the average life of the mould to extend more than 30%.
Conclusión
Moulds as an important resource for production, its flow and use of controllability, is the embodiment of the core competitiveness of manufacturing enterprises. A través de la tecnología RFID, enterprises can achieve mould tracking from ‘chaotic’ to ‘orderly’, from ‘experience’ to ‘data’, for the digital upgrading of the manufacturing industry. ’, laying a solid foundation for the digital upgrading of the manufacturing industry.
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