| Tracking & Tracing Theatre
The Tracking & Tracing Theatre (T&TT) of AIM-D
The Tracking & Tracing Theatre (T&TT) presents Auto ID technologies live – hardware and software – as part of an industrial process scenario: the path taken by pallets, containers, consumer products and pharmaceuticals on their logistic route from the manufacturer via the wholesaler to the retail outlet (supermarket or pharmacy), where consumer goods and drugs are sold. Participating companies are:
- Deister Electronic
- Dematic
- EB
- Feig Electronic
- GS1 Germany
- Jeka Organisationssysteme
- Microplex
- Pepperl + Fuchs
- RF-iT Solutions
- Sick
- Siemens
- Smartflow
Several times per day visitors are taken on guided tours where they learn the benefits of Auto ID technologies in the context with realistic processes and can transfer what they learn towards the Auto ID requirements of their own companies. At the “manufacturer's plant” barcode or RFID tags are generated and fixed on pallets and containers and electronically identified when leaving the warehouse using RFID antennae gates or mobile barcode reader devices. Also new plastic pallets with integrated RFID tags are used.
At the “wholesaler's” incoming goods are again electronically identified and stored in vacant rack positions. Then orders are picked with a “pick-by-voice system” which feeds the headset of the picking person. The picker wears a RFID data glove, that allows to check automatically whether the right item has been picked. An RFID desk reader checks the commission which is ready to send. The commission container is put on an intra-logistics transport system which directs the container to the right warehouse hub with the help of RFID-driven track switches.
The shipping of the commission from the wholesaler as well as the receiving of it at the “supermarket” is checked by an RFID readers. The asset management of RTIs (Returnable Transport Items) will be demonstrated.
In the supermarket the POS process is demonstrated with RFID tags on single products. A special demo point exposes the usage of various identification technologies, which will all have their special meaning in the future and among which the industrial users have to make their choices according to their specific requirements: classical one-dimensional barcodes, 2D data matrix codes and RFID. Also the new GS1 data bar, EAN data matrix code and the EPC (Electronic Product Code) will be emphasized. Furthermore, it is planned to demonstrate smart cards with temperature sensors which are used to control the temperatures of sensitive medicines and other products while being transported.
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