Wireless Tag Distribution System for Customized Product Labeling
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Solution Overview
Problem
The existing methods for managing physical distribution of customized products, such as consumable supplies for copiers, lead to increased workload and stock management issues due to the need to maintain separate inventories for different destinations, and incur significant costs from attaching various information stickers at different stages of fabrication and distribution.
Innovation Solution
A system that uses a tag writer device in the manufacturing facility to write information onto wireless tags, which are then read and used to generate customized labels at the distribution facility, reducing the need for separate stock management and integrating traceability and expiration date information into the product packaging.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If customized products are packaged and managed as different products for different destinations, then traceability and destination-specific information can be maintained, but the workload at warehouses and storage facilities increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the information management from physical product segmentation. Instead of creating separate physical inventory for each destination, the system segments information storage by writing destination-specific data into wireless tags attached to universal product packages. This allows one physical package to carry multiple information sets for different destinations, reducing warehouse workload while maintaining traceability.
Solution Approach 2:
The wireless tag acts as an intermediary between the product and the destination-specific information. Rather than modifying the physical product or creating separate inventory, the tag mediates by storing and transmitting customized information (destination, traceability, expiration dates) without requiring physical product differentiation.
2Adaptability or versatility
If separate stock is maintained for each destination, then destination-specific customization is achieved, but the likelihood of items going out of stock increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies universality by creating a single physical product that can serve multiple destinations through information customization rather than physical customization. The universal package with a wireless tag can be configured for any destination, allowing the same physical inventory to fulfill multiple destination requirements, thereby improving stock availability while maintaining adaptability.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the parameter of customization from physical product characteristics to information characteristics. By storing different destination parameters (country, language, specifications) in the wireless tag rather than creating physically different products, the system enables flexible destination adaptation without fragmenting stock, thus improving both adaptability and stock availability.
3Loss of information
If multiple stickers indicating various information are attached to packages at different stages, then complete information tracking is achieved, but significant costs are incurred for each attaching process
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple separate information-attachment processes into a single integrated solution. Instead of attaching separate stickers for traceability, expiration dates, and destination information at different manufacturing and distribution stages, all this information is consolidated into the wireless tag, eliminating multiple attachment operations and their associated costs.
Solution Approach 2:
The wireless tag serves as a digital copy or alternative to multiple physical stickers. Rather than creating and attaching separate physical labels for each piece of information, the system creates a single electronic information storage medium that can hold and transmit all required data, significantly reducing the cost and complexity of information tracking.
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AI summary
A physical distribution system comprises a tag writer device provided in a manufacturing facility for manufacturing common products to be supplied to a plurality of destinations, that writes related information concerning a product into a wireless tag included in the product, and a distribution facility system provided at a distribution facility, for determining a destination for the product and for shipping the product to the determined destination. The distribution facility system comprises a customized indication information acquiring device that acquires basic indication information corresponding to the determined destination of the product, a tag reader device that reads out the related information of the product from the wireless tag included in the product, a print information generator device that generates a label print information including the basic indication information acquired by the customized indication information acquiring device and the related information read out by the reader device, and a printer device that reads, on the product or on a label to be attached to the product, the label print information generated by the print information generator device.