terça-feira, 22 de setembro de 2009

Aspects that favor the adoption of RFID technology to control access to the integrated management processes.

The RFID technology has been widespread throughout the world as one of the most
revolutionary in various spheres of government and used the most diverse forms and
models in PVC cards, earrings for livestock, encapsulated in formats of rice, nails, buttons and at frequencies ranging of your country. Their use are also being made of many different ways and thus become difficult to relate to the quantities of types of use of reduced form as ranging from the simple counting of inventories of products, control of the factory floor, location of storage of items in repository , control of assets, access control, measurement and benchmarking of time to process and manage tickets for items with automatic counting. We could not discard the control of originality of product through the bit stored in its chip that from one format to decrypt it whether or not the item is factory original and not a product originating from counterfeiting.
But it is clear and remarkable that the adoption of technology by businesses and IT
managers still leave questions about its credibility, accuracy, cost and factors that still haunt those who do not use, do not know and to believe that should cost a viable solution for many the problems currently found mainly in manufacturing environments.
It is also clear here that it is possible that all managers in other areas also do not believe in technology, but the inevitable culture and unfortunately still necessary is that really the area of IT companies must approve the adoption of any new technology, not is only due to the players they are businesses that are "in theory" at the forefront of digital technology but also to know in detail the details that there are factors such as viruses, hackers, other elements that directly affect any adoption of new technology not yet approved and also without their recent experience of others in the area.
But there is an item discussed in companies that the basic question of the exchange of technology present a more recent, and is in line to work and argue strongly that the RFID technology to control access may resolve many cases of other departments not only the replacement of the book point by point, and this card for electronic point decided, it is simply time to reduce the measurement of hours worked and the company to ensure that your employee was present on the date and time pre-determined contract in the company.
This item that I refer is the factor "process" and that the factory managers know what I'm saying, because the factor "process" has always been the most important and believe it will still be another decade at least within a manufacturing environment. The factor "processes" to which I refer is one in which the managers within a production plant can not really know where to get the developer and what he is really doing. It is this line that I advocate the use of access control, knowing that the process of quality control employees of a product X, Y and Z were responsible for benchmarking the products U, V and W. But how can I ensure that the company will adopt the technology to provide a solution like this? The answer is always the question of any entrepreneur who press for defending the company and within its basic objectives which is to defend their profit margins and lower costs.
This same once it is established that the access control ordinance solve the problems that the card "mifer" does not resolve and may add value in my case management procedures to ISO9000 can improve the management of people, flows and industrial production with
AIDCO (Automatic Data Capture Input) of employees in each sector in each process and
each product, then it is easy to show that its value at the level of services and controls obviamentes will be larger and may purchase without the fear of being a cost to most in the industry, but more an investment to improve the quality of product and service level.
So what can be academically especially clear is that the controls may seem very important, however if the solution has no added value will never be adopted by companies and stiffen the adoption and dissemination of technology, so we must interpolate technology with clear benefits and mainly show through numbers what the end customer wins with it and not what the client should win because it creates added value yes.
So what I propose methodologies are based on performance indicators to assess the
processes and analyze problems that are caused by lack of opportunity to identify the
active collaborator of the case to be difficult to measure and control the shape of the commit process the order of production, be it through traditional processes notes by hand or by use of integrated bar code, we can decide the case by linking the item to the employee of a performer easily quickly and efficiently using a badge or an RFID chip RFID the uniform and obviously the performer of RFID chips in products or in production orders for the AIDCO process is as transparent as possible and cheap.
A very important point in the process of integration of this information is the link with the code of the employee with the product code and adiconado the time and date of reading to the reading area of the antenna can be reached as soon as possible to an area of coverage CCTV image of where the future need for collection of information is more serious nature of the traditional administrative problems of traceability and management processes.
But this becomes a process of implementation involving the ERP management system,
security of working with the ordinance by identifying badges and the CCTV system to a
more secure and ensure that the current high degree of fidelity in the information.

Akira Sato
RFID Software Development
akirasato@gmail.com