Potential uses of RFID technology in asset management
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2010
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Haider, A.
Koronios, A.P.
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Amadi-Echendu, J.E.
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Source details - Title: Definitions, concepts and scope of engineering asset management, 2010 / Amadi-Echendu, J.E. (ed./s), vol.1, pp.173-195
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Radio frequency identification (RFID) is a powerful data capturing technology that allows for electronic identification and tracking of the products, cases, or pallets that the RFID tags are attached to. As a result, the main thrust for businesses in adopting this technology has been on logistics and warehouse management. However, with the continuous development and emergent innovative use of technology, RFID is now being used for much more than just electronic identification of items. Particularly, for engineering asset management, RFID has the potential of taking workforce mobility to a higher level and allows for remote condition monitoring, failure follow up notifications, and embedding health history with the asset for its lifetime. RFID technology, therefore, has the potential of enabling a variety of applications spanning asset lifecycle. This paper presents the results of an evaluation study undertaken for the Cooperative Research Centre of Engineering Asset Management to explore the efficiency of RFID technology for Asset Management. The value profile of RFID technology in three areas were investigated. Firstly in remote condition and operating environment monitoring of asset operations. Secondly in defence supply chain management, where inventory consists of a variety of items; in order to alleviate capacity constraints where the flow of materials in the reverse direction is high, and the supply and demands factors are not as stable as compared to some other chains. In this case, the geographic end points of the supply chain are unstable and generally not static. The third area is automated configuration management, where constituent components of large configurations can be identified automatically. This paper, thus, is significant across a variety of disciplines and professional areas such as, asset design, maintenance, logistics, and asset health management.
This paper reports the results of three prototype projects carried out in controlled environments and provides an assessment of potential allowances and limitation of RFID technologies examined in this research.
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