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the Bremen plant. “Inside the plant there are many different parts
made from sheet metal”, explains Nizam. “Each piece is processed
on average 10 times, and between each process, you need to
confirm what’s happened. That is done through confirmation of a
work order, which today is a sheet of paper with lots of barcodes. If
you add it all up, that’s about 1.5
million times per year that a
barcode is scanned to say that a
stage of a process is done.”
That alone represents a lot of
effort, but it can get even more
complicated. “If the priority
changes or the process changes
you need to find where the piece
of the material is, and quickly. We
have testedwhat happens if you
RFID tag the work orders. We
wanted to know, can you see an
improvement in the process?
Can you allow multiple automatic
confirmations? Typically RFID
doesn’t work in a metallic environment,
but we’ve had 100% read
rates in our pilot”, says Nizam.
ODIN attributes this success to a deep understanding of the physics and then choosing the proper
technology to suite the business requirement. This accuracy level is thanks not only to the ODIN
Technologies EasyReader suite, but also to the experience ODIN has gained in over 125 customer
engagements worldwide, including the largest global projects ever deployed, such as the global rollout
for the US Dept of Defense’s Defense Logisitics Agency.
Production tooling
Airbus uses many different types and categories of tooling, such as hammers, drills, templates and
spacers, at all stages of production. Nizam says: “What’s important is that they are in the right place at
the right time, so if it moves, it needs to be tracked.
But tools also need to be calibrated. You would typically calibrate on a fixed schedule, perhaps every six
months. However, in that time, one tool might have been used only once, and another a hundred times.”
Another pilot is therefore looking affixing RFID tags to production tooling. “From a cost and
performance perspective you can then calibrate only the ones you need to, only when they need it”,
says Nizam, “with a clear saving in time and money.”
Part traceability
When Airbus builds a plane, every part that goes into it needs to be traced. “The customer needs a clear
idea of each part - every serial number”, explains Nizam. “Traditionally, that’s done using bits of paper,
and we do a good job with paper, but this is going to get more difficult as our production rates ramp up.”
“We are going to launch an RFID pilots putting tags on the parts themselves, and we think that will
increase the efficiency of the data entry process, as well as the integrity, accuracy and robustness of the
data itself. This has particular ramifications for us because it’s a tremendous amount of our activity –
building aircraft is what we do and we have to track and trace what we deliver. This is one of the most
interesting pilots – really, one of the key highlights of our visibility and RFID programme.”
Parts in service
Finally, phase three looks at the potential benefits that RFID can offer when its use extends further
down the supply chain – parts actually in service with airlines. “For example, when a part is repaired,
you can help improve the maintenance process using RFID by reducing the amount of paper”, says
Nizam. “Usually, when a part comes off a plane you have to wait for the paperwork to catch up. By
having the information encoded in an RFID tag on the part itself, you improve the process. And when
the part goes back to a supplier, they need that information too.”
“The future of RFID is to build business value based on sound metrics”, says Sweeney. “Companies
like Airbus that have seen this potential in RFID are creating a competitive strategic advantage by
deploying RFID before their competitors.”
As Airbus progresses with RFID, ODIN’s experience as the global leaders in design and testing will be
leveraged to pick the appropriate technology for the specific task. This will include using passive RFID,
active RFID, as well as investigating and possibly deploying other visibility technologies such as surface
acoustic wave, ultra wide band, and real-time location systems.
To learn more about how to successfully deploy RFID equipment and support it in a high availability
environment contact ODIN technologies at:
22960 Shaw Road, Ste. 600 Dulles, VA 20166 www.odintechnologies.com
866-787-RFID 703-968-0000 info@odintechnologies.com

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