- To manage the production process, EdiPax offers solutions for variable costs and quality.
- Solutions quoted are not standard and may vary with your situation.

RFID Solution:

a- Why an RFID solution?

- EdiPax generates a complete RFID solution to manage the production process.
- Reduce the waste of raw materials integral to the production process.
- Rapid detection of errors if they exist.
- Proposal of corrective solutions.
- Control of production of each station.
- Generation of very precise traceability information of production.
- Production with almost zero error and zero wastage.
- Monitoring of the complete chain of production.

b- Details of the RFID solution:

For each station of production the following events will be repeated:
- Install RFID equipment: two antennas and a reader per station of production.
- Manage raw materials to integrate into the production process.
- A program that takes care of RFID for an interaction between three RFID tags to reduce the error rate (e.g. Omission of a raw material to form a recipe for a product to be manufactured).
- RFID tag of raw materials.
- RFID tag of revenues.
- RFID tag of products.
Explanation of the relationship between the three RFID tags and their roles in managing the production process:
• Materials tag:
- Which are recorded materials to integrate into the production process: for example definition of the quantities, weights, dates …
- If all the raw materials (defined in this tag for this production station) were used, and then the RFID tag is initialized.
- The usefulness of this tag is that it allows on one hand to avoid the waste of raw materials and on the other avoids any conflict or error commodities.
- The stock of raw materials will be managed automatically to avoid any theft or loss of raw materials.
- In case of errors in the raw materials the system detects it rapidly and identifies corrective solutions.
• Recipes tag:
- Of which revenues are recorded to integrate into the production process: for example definition of the quantities, weights, dates, revenue mix.
- If all the income (defined in this tag for this station production) were used, then the RFID tag is initialized.
- It helps avoiding any production errors with regards to the constitution of the ingredients of products manufactured.
- The usefulness of this RFID tag is that it helps avoiding errors of revenue mix in the constitution of the final product.
- In case of errors in revenues, the production process will be blocked; the system rapidly detects and identifies corrective solutions.
• Product tag:
- On which the information about the products (or not-finished products) is recorded. It is made in this production station such as DLC, date, product code ...
- The usefulness of this tag is that it can provide information of the product.
- After its manufacture, it will be passed to a station to verify the condition of the package.
- Switch to a quality control prior to storage.
Generation of traceability information for each production station:
- Thanks to RFID antennas installed, the system generates traceability information of any station for raw materials, income or for finished products.
- This traceability information is very precise, provides reliable statistics and generates decisive tools.
- Ability to assess the productivity of each production station.

c- Advantage of the RFID solution to manage the production process:

- Efficient and effective.
- Integrating technologies.
- Comprehensive and fully integrated.
- Automatic management of production orders.
- Automatic batch and serial numbers.
- RFID traceability upstream and downstream.
- Reduce production costs.
- Securing the production (in the composition of the product ingredients).
- Increase productivity by 68%.

d- Cost of solution:

SCAN Solution:

a- Why a SCAN solution?

- Less expensive, simple and easy to use.
- It was adopted mainly for companies that do not have large production per week.
- Simplify the preparation of orders.
- Validation of scanning movements.
- Management of the statutes.
- Validation of quantities.
- Reduce errors of preparation of orders by 75%.
- Generation of the parameters of the preparation of the command:
* Structure of the articles.
* Composition of articles and assortments of goods - fresh produce, non-food, and food ...
* Number of articles.
* Articles property - volume, weight, temperature.
* Structure of orders and deliveries.
* Quality of preparing orders.
* Ergonomics.
* Security.
* Flexibility.
* Profitability.

b- Details of SCAN solution:

The following treatment can be applied for each production station:
- Scan of raw materials to integrate into the production process: event scanning.
- Verifying levels of production: according to the algorithm using FIFO (First In First Out).
- Follow-up predefined recipes to process the product without error.
- Control of lots and sub-lots production.
- Scan the product manufactured to generate traceability information.
- Management of packaging.
- Station control of production quality.
- Storage of products manufactured.
Explanation of the SCAN program generated by EdiPax:
- Launch event SCAN.
- A web service installed at EdiPax retrieves scanned data and generates XML files.
- Registration of XML files into corresponding database tables.
- Another program that takes care to generate traceability information in Excel format pivot tables: traceability of batch to batch production.
- Generation of inflows and outflows.

c- Pricing of solution:

Remark 1: These prices are for guidance purposes and may be variable depending on the business case and the quality of equipment to buy.
Remark 2: EDIPAX generates less costly alternatives other than the RFID and the SCAN solution. Example: the VOIP solution is less expensive and easy to use. But it remains that the choice of technology to adopt depends on your business costs and requirements.