The Benefits of RFID for Slab- and Coil-Logistics - Falken Secure ...

Perfect Steel maintains its own seaport
with one portal crane, a fleet of 20
forklifts and 80 trailers to transport
slabs and coils internally.
With a supply chain similar to the
generic one described. Perfect Steel is
estimated to require a total of 29 RFIDreaders
and 116 RFID antennae.
General Assumptions – Assets
no. of forklifts 20
no. of trailers 80
value of forklifts [€] 500.000
value of trailers [€] 80.000
total value of forklifts [€] 10.000.000
total value of trailers [€] 6.400.000
annual cost of maintenance [%] 10,0
total cost of maintenance per year [€] 1.640.000
Location Type Equipped Inbound Outbound RFID RFID
locations Readpoints Readpoints Readers Antennae
Slab Stock Yards 1 0 1 1 4
Pickling Stations 1 0 1 1 4
HRM Stock Yards 1 1 1 2 8
Tandem Mills 1 1 1 2 8
Temper Mills 1 1 1 2 8
CRM Stock Yards 2 1 1 4 16
Surface Finishing Stations 1 1 1 2 8
Coating / Painting Stations 1 1 1 2 8
Cutting Stations 1 1 1 2 8
Finishing Stock Yards 3 1 1 6 24
Packaging Lines 1 1 1 2 8
Final Warehouses 1 1 1 2 8
Dispatch Stations 1 0 1 1 4
Total 16 10 13 29 116
Figure 7 – Perfect Steel’s RFID hardware needs
for RFID rollout throughout operations
Figure 6 – General assumptions – assets
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