RFID Crate Frame Assembly for Fast Bottle Verification
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Solution Overview
Problem
The wine production process faces challenges in increasing throughput while maintaining quality, as existing automation systems require fine optimization of each step to meet growing demand without compromising quality.
Innovation Solution
A management system for crates of bottles equipped with electronic chips, featuring a frame with integrated chip readers and a power supply cabinet, allows for efficient tracking and identification of bottles using RFID technology, enabling optimized inventory and identification processes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If automated control systems are implemented for each production step, then quality control is improved, but production rate increases are limited due to the need for fine optimization of each step
Solution Approach 1:
The management system performs multiple functions (tracking, identification, verification, inventory management) through a single integrated platform using RFID technology, eliminating the need for separate control systems at each production step while maintaining quality control and enabling increased throughput
2Productivity
If traditional manual verification methods are used for bottle contents, then system complexity is reduced, but production speed decreases due to time-consuming manual checking
Solution Approach 1:
The system replaces manual visual inspection and physical opening of bottles with automated RFID reading and verification processes, enabling instant content verification without mechanical intervention while maintaining simple system architecture through the use of electronic identification tags
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This system enhances the speed and accuracy of wine production by enabling quick verification of bottle contents without opening, optimizing inventory management, and ensuring precise tracking of bottle information, thus supporting increased throughput without sacrificing quality.
Implementation Method 1
A management system for crates of bottles equipped with electronic chips, featuring a frame with integrated chip readers... allows for efficient tracking and identification of bottles using RFID technology
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AI summary
The invention relates to a management system for crates of bottles, each bottle being provided with an electronic chip, the management system comprising: - a first framework (160) having a first form, - a second framework (162) having a second form, the second form being complementary to the first form, the assembly of the two frameworks (160, 162) forming a frame defining an internal opening suitable for inserting a conveyor (58) on which the crates (12) to be managed are capable of travelling along a direction of travel (X), the internal opening having a dimension along a direction orthogonal to the direction of travel between 300 mm and 1000 mm, at least one chip reader being included in the frame.