RFID Improves the Manufacturing of Guided Missiles

Chances are, you’ve never been to an aerospace and defense manufacturing facility. In this special edition of The RFID Network, we’ve been given a rare opportunity to go inside one of these facilities for a look at how RFID technology is used to help build unmanned aerial vehicles and guided missiles for the US Department of Defense.

The OMNITROL Supplier Collaboration solution starts as low as $1,499 month for 24 months and comes with a 6-month money-back guarantee. This package is offered exclusively through The RFID Networks and includes:

• One OMNITROL Supplier Collaboration software package
• One OMNITROL appliance
• One OMNTIROL Smart Touch Screen
• One OMNITROL Smart Sensor box
• One metal shelf
• One RFID reader and four antennas
• One hundred (100) work order tags
• Twenty five (25) employee tags
• Installation and user’s guides

The OMNITROL Supplier Collaboration package is a complete integrated RFID, sensor and software solution. The OMNITROL solution can be rapidly deployed on a supplier’s shop-floor in a few days to provide immediate real-time visibility into customer orders without impacting operational processes. The solution scales seamlessly from one manufacturing line to a complete factory and across geographically dispersed operations by simply deploying new OMNITROL Supplier Collaboration appliances.

Benefits for the suppliers:

• Improve manufacturing operations:
• Increase on-time delivery
• Reduce cycle time and WIP
• Generate reporting and spreadsheets
• Minimize impact on current operations or back-end systems
• Collaborate with manufacturing, QA, and logistics
• Improve customer satisfaction
• Take decision based on high-integrity data
• View real-time KPIs and analytics
• 3 to 5 months ROI with ultra-low TCO

Benefits for the OEM

• Reduce supplier management costs:
• Manage suppliers by exception
• Receive high-integrity real-time data
• Manage more suppliers per resource
• Interact with suppliers remotely
• Eliminate manual spreadsheets or reports
• Achieve better and faster decision making with 24/7 visibility and alerts
• Coordinate deliveries across multiple suppliers
• Limit impact to back-end systems
• Reduce travels, meetings and calls