Contact: JACK PALMER [email protected] 32 fastened to your equipment, parts inventory or in production—to your mold and core boxes. The tags communicate wirelessly with the tag to the data. Your data can include mixer run time, resin percentages and ratios, additives, as well as compaction table vibration settings. The production data can also be incorporated into your companywide system. You can easily start small with RFID and grow with it very cost effectively. RFID, in comparison to other technologies is not as expensive nor difficult to deploy, and you can see the results on a smaller scale before you elect to go plant-wide. Of all of the ways you could reduce human errors and increase quality that is repeatable, RFID has to be one of the easiest to deploy in core and mold making, and see immediate results. The process of adding a tag and attaching it to the bottom of each core or mold box is easy. The tags (compliant with ISO 18000-3, ISO 15693, and ISO 14443 standards) each have a unique identification number that is read when the box is presented to the core machine. Then, during set-up the workers enters the setting for that particular core into the PLC. Once that setting is entered, it is saved permanently for that recipe. Especially in our current labor shortage market, the labor savings benefits of RFID are easily understood. However, RFID really manages your quality control system by ensuring the machine settings and the correct recipe are being used. Foundries using RFID report that their increase in quality castings has also naturally reduced their defects/ scrap, which has allowed them to compete with reduced prices. They also report that a RFID system is simply more productive. Sometimes just looking at your core or mold making challenges can produce solutions to increase production and casting quality by simply upgrading features to your existing equipment while reducing scrap and human errors at the same time.
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