Smart Tags MONITOR PART FLOW

摘要

Castings for four-cycle engine blocks pause at Station 3 for a short but important quality-control task at Briggs and Stratton's factory in Poplar Bluff, MO. A reader retrieves the pallet number from the radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag on each of the 88 pallets carrying the castings through the 54 stations in the block-machining line. A pin-stamper then imprints that number, the date, time, and crew number into the casting.