Container
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| Project Background |
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The Customer is one of the biggest container manufacturers
in the world, currently holds over 40% market share in the
international container market, and over 50% market share
in the reefer container market. It has more than one hundred
thousand containers, which are custom ordered by different
customers, stored in its Container Yard. After containers
left factory, it is difficult to keep real time tracking
of their location and condition during transportation; it
is also a time-consuming and error-prone process to locate
specified container in the container yard; container yard
is not fully utilized because of the incapability of real-time
tracking the quantity and location of containers inside
the container yard. In order to achieve real time tracking
of container from leaving production to transportation until
the container yard, the customer chose Invengo RFID Solution
for Container Management to setup a real-time container
logistic management system.
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| Features |
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| ％ Employs high Performance RFID tag and reader to accommodate
harsh metal environment
％ Unique RFID-integrated forklift with onboard RFID reader
helps locating and identifying
any designated container.
％ Enables whole course tracing of containers from production
line to transportation until
container yard.
％ Automatic data collection and real-time management system
can speed up container
transportation process and improve container yard utilization
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| System Components |
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The main components of Invengo's RFID Solution
for Container Management includes XCTF-5040 Electronic Tag,
XCRF-501 Card Issuer, XCRF-500A Reader/writer, XCAF-11 Linear
Polarized Antenna and XCRF-611 Integrated Reader. XCTF-5040
Electronic Tag is a reusable magnetic-attached tag specially
designed to adapt metal environment of container production-line
and yard; XCRF-611 Integrated Reader is resistant to the harsh
environment of container yard and designed to be integrated
into forklift.
Success
Since its initiation in Feb 2005, the Container Management
Project has been progressing smoothly and test result of first
two phases of the project, which involves more than one thousands
40-feet container, is very encouraging. The system enables
automatic identification and real time tracking of containers,
which lead to more visualized container logistic chain, better
assets management and improved container yard utilization
rate for the customer; it also considerably reduces human
error and shortens operating time to result in cost reduction.
The customer is very satisfied with the project, highly appraises
it as ＾The Demonstration Platform of Container RFID Application￣
and currently working with Invengo to extend it to the next
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