Integration design of material flow management in an e-business manufacturing environment
Decision Support Systems
Design of an RFID-Based Manufacturing Data Tracking System in Plant Production
ICIRA '08 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications: Part II
An intelligent traffic management expert system with RFID technology
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
A holistic approach for the cognitive control of production systems
Advanced Engineering Informatics
Integration of information technology and automation: facilitators and barriers
WSEAS Transactions on Systems and Control
Time-synchronizing control of self-organizing shop floors for networked manufacturing
Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing
RFID enabled remote structural health monitoring for heavy lifting appliances
ICIRA'10 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Intelligent robotics and applications - Volume Part II
A plug-and-play data gathering system using ZigBee-based sensor network sensor network
Computers in Industry
A plug-and-play data gathering system using ZigBee-based sensor network sensor network
Computers in Industry
RFID driven robotic assembly for random mix manufacturing
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
Generation of an adaptive simulation driven by product trajectories
Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing
An RFID-based manufacture process control and supply chain management in the semiconductor industry
International Journal of Information Technology and Management
Aligning RFID applications with supply chain strategies
Information and Management
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In recognition of the need for more effective and efficient factory system integration solutions, this paper improves the method proposed in our previous work, focusing on new mechanisms to bridge the gap between shop floor automation and factory information systems. As one of the mainstream identification technologies, radio frequency identification (RFID) technology makes possible all products uniquely identifiable across factories. By taking advantage of data capacity stored in an RFID tag, critical manufacturing information on a product can be locally stored with the product. RFID technology provides a means for a product to rapidly retrieve its needed information as it advances through shop floors. A corresponding framework to enable the instant delivery of pertinent data and information on a uniquely identifiable job/product at point-of-need across factories is proposed. A small-scale manufacturing application is presented to show how the proposed approach can be implemented on the shop floor.