Article management system and article management apparatus

Details Article management system and article management apparatus Article management system and article management apparatus

2006-11-14

2006-11-14

Tran, Khoi H. (Department: 3651)

Data processing: generic control systems or specific application

Specific application, apparatus or process

Article handling

C700S225000, C340S005920, C340S870030

Reexamination Certificate

active

07136721

ABSTRACT:
There is provided an article management system having a plurality of article management apparatus that are arranged at the respective process stage position in a production line and read information by RF tag readers from an article RF tag affixed to each of articles contained in a case and a case RF tag attached to each of the cases. A server connected to the respective article management apparatus for managing ID information on the articles, quantity of the articles, current process stage positions for each of the cases and other items. With this system, production management for the articles contained in the cases can be performed in a short time without being interrupted, even if some of the tags have become damaged and reading from the tags is impaired.

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