Course Description

Smart Manufacturing entails fully integrated & collaborative manufacturing system with high focus on data and seamless connectivity responding in real time the changing demand in the Smart Factory.

This course provides the fundamentals of RFID technology and how to use it to transfer data in production allowing flexible production configuration which contributes to flexibility & adaptability – a feature highly needed for lot size one production.

Course Duration: 16 hours

Course Outcomes

Participants are able to:

• Understand the different identification methods such as binary code, QR code and RFID
• Identify the right identification method for the right application
• Integrate RFID to incorporate data into automation process driving towards Smart Manufacturing
• Communicate data with RFID using Programmable Logic Controller

Course Contents

• Fundamentals of RFID
• Selection of RFID for different applications
• Benefits of using RFID to incorporate data into automation processes
• Programming the Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) to read data from the RFID tag
• Programming the PLC to write data to the RFID tag