RFID technology allows auditing inventory without line of sight. Integrating RFID with asset management software can support the management of asset life cycle while saving 6x time in inventory audit and preventing theft via real time alert.

1. Bring RFID to Enterprise Asset
Management
E-ISG Asset Intelligence (www.e-isg.com)
February, 2016

2. RFID – Key Benefits
Use of Radio Frequency
Identification (RFID) technology for
automated inventory control
eliminates costly user-initiated line
of sight inventory activities that
other technologies require.

3. RFID Eliminates Line of Sight
Scanning

4. How RFID Technology Add Value to
Asset Management?
1 . Reduce counting/audit time by 6.5x – save Labor
costs
2 . Automate the update of asset location – save time
in locating assets

5. What RFID Technology Doesn’t Do
 Manage the Lifecycle Infor mation of Individual
Asset or the Relationships among Assets
 Schedule and track asset Calibration/Maintenance
 Suppor t wor kflows
 Generate routine and customized repor ts for
decision making and compliance repor ting

6. What Asset Management Software
Does
 Manage Financial, Physical, Contractual
Infor mation of Physical Assets
 Manage Asset Life Cycle events – recor d, change of
custody, inventor y audit, maintenance, retirement
 Automate Repor ting – Operation, financial,
Compliance
 Automate business processes through wor kflows

7. 7
1. Enterprise wide visibility to physical assets – improve
operation
 What
 Where
 Who
2. Streamlined data entry and reporting – save labor hours
and reduce risks
 Purchase orders feed into asset management systems
 Data from asset management systems feed into
Finance to prepare for depreciation and tax reporting
Benefits from Asset Management
System

8. 8
 Reduce labor hours spent on locating assets
 Reduce labor hours on auditing assets
 Prevent loss of assets by setting up geo fencing for
assets
 Collect additional information from assets to assist
decision making, e.g. temperature, meters
Benefits of Bringing Physical
RFID to Asset Management

9.  Active
 Passive
 Battery Assisted (BAP)
 GPS/A-GPS
RFID Tag Types

10. 10
Passive RFID Technology – How It
works

11. • Specialized Handheld Readers
– Mobile Computers
– Bluetooth attached readers
• Fixed Position Readers
– Mounted near doors/areas
– Fully automated operation
Passive RFID Technology --
Options

12.  Don’t know where the materials, parts and equipment are
 Expensive tool gets moved around in the plant, but nobody is
alerted
 Plant engineers spent overtime labor to inventory parts and
equipment – cost overrun
 Unable to track the components in an assembled
workstation (parent/child relationship)
 Unable to report to Customs the duration of the individual
equipment in the plant since imported to Mexico
Case Example -- Automobile
Manufacturing Facility

13. Case Example – What We Did at
the Facility
 Tag all assets with Passive RFID tags
at receiving
 Install read points at doorways
 Establish Zones throughout Floorplan
 Logged events on:
 Units movement outside of
designated zones

14. Track Assets within Floor/Zones

15. Track Assets Moved Outside of
Designated Zones

16. Case Example – Post
Implementation
1. Eliminated daily cycle count
2. Eliminated overtime hours for
inventory audit
3. Eliminated $2 Million in Customs
fines for inaccurate records

17. Thank you!
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