第12讲物流信息系统说课.ppt

* * This is an example of RFID’s application throughout the supply chain.It is important to understand that readers are used at major events to provide visibility throughout the chain.之前发生的旅客行李丢失的情况 * * 该机场的　“我们每天处理 65,000 至 70,000 件行李，”s Randall H. Walker, the airport’s director of aviation.“They are routed to a centralized screening node before they are redistributed to the airlines.We needed a very high degree of accuracy to make sure we send each bag back to the right airline and not interfere with their ability to get the bags into the airline system.”Airports have been considering using RFID technology to track baggage for more than a decade.Tests have been done at numerous U.S. airports, including those in Atlanta, Jacksonville, Fla., and San Francisco.Several European facilities have opted to use RFID tags to track reusable trays that carry luggage (see EU Airports Send Bar Codes Packing).In the U.S. tests, RFID tags were far more accurate than scanning bar codes on baggage tags as luggage moved down a conveyor.Because of the random orientation of the bags, the bar codes can be mis-scanned 15 percent to 30 percent of the time.The higher cost of the RFID tags has prevented airlines and airports from moving to RFID systems, but the post-9/11 requirement in the United States to screen all bags for explosives and the falling price of RFID tags has changed the economics.“Fifteen percent of 65,000 bags is a lot of bags,” says Walker.“To manually reroute all those bags to the right location if they were delivered incorrectly to the airline is an extremely expensive process.When you look at it overall, certainly the savings in manpower would more than offset the higher cost of the RFID tag.”The Clark County Department of Aviation, which runs McCarran, selected RFID tags from Matrics, a Columbia, Md.-based provider of RFID systems that operate in the UHF spectrum.Matrics will supply roughly 20 million tags per year under the five-year contract.Walker says t