Vicaima plans to extend its RFID project during the next several months throughout Europe.
The integrated services vendor in the deal, Creative Systems, said RFID was chosen for the project because it reduced the operation time in adding a fully automated validation system for Vicaima’s wood-door production process.
Alien’s UHF ALR-8800 reader and Gen 2 Squiggle tags were used to track material throughout Vicaima’s supply chain process.
Alien’s RFID solution, using the ‘squiggle’ tag affixed to each door, greatly reduced the amount of human intervention required for process controls while virtually eliminating tracking errors – resulting in greater flexibility and efficiencies at the production control level, said Vicaima managing director Filipe Maia Ferreira.
Alien’s flagship Squiggle family of RFID tags, so-called because they have a squiggly antenna design, have been designed to be low-cost, according to Morgan Hill, California-based Alien
Alien claims the RFID project, whose financial terms were not disclosed, was the first within the door/window production industry to be compliant with EPC, or Electronic Product Code. Alien’s director of channel sales for EMEA Stephen Crocker said the project would be a benchmark for standardizing RFID across the wood-working industry.
