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Nedschroef, a Dutch manufacturer of metal fasteners for the automobile industry, tracks information regarding 4,500 metal containers filled with as many as 100,000 nuts.
By Rhea Wessel
July 9, 2012—Nedschroef, a Dutch producer of metal fasteners for the automotive industry, has reduced the incidence of shipping errors at its plant in Plettenberg, Germany, down to 1 percent using radio frequency identification technology.
The company is employing the solution to manage 4,500 square metal containers, each filled with as many as 100,000 nuts. While awaiting shipping, the containers are stored within an automated rack. By affixing an RFID tag to each container (as well as mounting a second tag to a production sheet attached to that container), Nedschroef can track production information and the containers’ exact weights, in order to ensure that the proper number of fasteners are shipped to each customer. (…)
via Metal Fastener Company Improves Production With RFID – RFID Journal.