Chapter 9: Middle and end of life issues

Title: RFID technology in the life cycle of complex machinery and plants

Author(s): Gerhard Müller, Klaus Richter, Cathrin Plate

Address: Fraunhofer-Institute for Factory Operation and Automation IFF, Director Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Michael Schenk, Sandtorstr. 22, 39106 Magdeburg, Germany | Fraunhofer-Institute for Factory Operation and Automation IFF, Director Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Michael Schenk, Sandtorstr. 22, 39106 Magdeburg, Germany | Fraunhofer-Institute for Factory Operation and Automation IFF, Director Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Michael Schenk, Sandtorstr. 22, 39106 Magdeburg, Germany

Reference: International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management 2007 pp. 587 - 596

Abstract/Summary: Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology is entering ever more domains of logistics and engineering. RFID components are for example used in the manufacture of complex machinery and equipment and in their delivery to customers and commissioning as well as in the subsequent phase of maintenance by plant operators. Awareness is increasingly growing in companies that such holistic and cross-company process chains require new approaches to and methods for the integrated utilization of RFID components. This begins in the design engineering of components, which are outfitted with RFID components either permanently or only to support selected process steps, and ends with the removal of the transponder or the deletion of the data stored on a component's transponder. An issue parallel to the physical handling of RFID components is the use of RFID to support cross-company information exchange.

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