RFID In Food Industry​

Market competition is intensifying, making it critical for business units to improve production efficiency and reduce operating costs. Currently, most warehouse management systems rely on barcode labels or manual documentation, which present significant limitations. Barcodes are easily copied, susceptible to damage from dirt and water, and involve complex operational processes. Similarly, manual record-keeping is prone to human error, leading to losses and inefficiencies in warehousing management.

This is where RFID in the food industry offers a transformative solution. Unlike barcodes, RFID technology provides durability, waterproofing, and resistance to tampering, while enabling automated, error-free tracking. By integrating RFID systems, businesses can streamline operations, enhance accuracy, and significantly reduce costs—addressing the long-standing deficiencies in modern warehousing management.

1.Problems Being Faced

Nowadays, grain storage and other grain enterprises' warehouse management still mostly relies on a non-automated, paper-documentation record-based system to track the entry and exit of grains, which faces problems including:

(1) a wide variety of food, often different types of food into the warehouse at the same time the phenomenon of warehousing, warehousing is often required to include a variety of different types of food packages in each single. At this time, the use of manual methods of counting in and out of the warehouse, the error rate is extremely high.

(2) inventory counting, relying on manual quantity checking, the error rate is also very high, it is difficult to ensure that the physical and accounts match.

(3) The uncertainty of human factor makes the working efficiency low and causes a great waste of human resources. Moreover, as the quantity of grain grows and the frequency of entering and leaving the warehouse increases greatly, this mode has a serious impact on the normal operational efficiency.

(4) The traditional management means make it impossible to update the data of grain storage and inventory data in real time, which is not conducive to the sharing of information resources within the unit.

2.SEIKORFID efficient management program

1, storage management

Storage management is mainly completed through the storage pipeline into the storage of each flour storage automatic registration and other auxiliary management.

Recommended automatic registration: RFID vertical storage channel door

(1) Product Description

support for multi-tag reading, using infrared triggered reading mode, support for the number of people in and out of the statistics, integrated sound and light alarm as a whole, you can use the online/offline EAS alarm two modes, the device supports network port communication, and can expand WiFi, 4G and other communication methods.

(2) Product features

1. multi-tag reading ability is very strong, very low leakage rate, false reading rate

2. special antenna design, access control coverage area is accurate, no blind spots

3. Built-in alarm lights and buzzers

4. RFID security door placed in a wider distance, up to 3-4m

5. 21.5-inch capacitive touch screen, real-time display of information and quantity, and can count the number of people in and out of the

(3) The operation process

attached with an electronic label of the flour through the storage pipeline is ready to enter the warehouse, will be installed in the pipeline at the exit of the RFID warehousing channel door. At this time, RFID channel door to flour automatically RFID identification. Recognition is completed, flour information (such as flour type, etc.) will be displayed on the channel door touch screen, and at the same time start the sound prompts. Moreover, the channel door will send the outgoing data to the backstage database for updating at the same time. At this point, the automatic registration of flour storage is completed.

In addition, the use of on-site RFID handheld can also be realized into the warehouse of other auxiliary management. For example, query the specified type of flour storage history records, automatically generate and print the specified date of the storage record report and so on.

3、Depot Management

Depot management is mainly based on the specific requirements of the customer bill of lading, to complete the accurate and automatic depot registration and other auxiliary management of many types of flour needed by the customer.

Recommendation for automatic registration: RFID channelizer

(1) Product Introduction

In the case of batch warehousing or shipping, it can carry out rapid, high-volume reading and identification management. The equipment adopts UHF RFID radio frequency technology to realize the identification with RFID tags bound on the items, which greatly saves the labor cost, shortens the time of entering and leaving the warehouse, and improves the work efficiency.

The large size can meet a variety of cage cart types and shelf carts. Equipment through the PLC, to realize the automatic opening and closing of the roller shutter, for closed reading, to prevent serial reading of the surrounding tags.

(2) Product Features

1.17 inch industrial touch screen all-in-one machine, default configuration windows system, Android optional;

2. Industrial touch screen all-in-one machine is equipped with a retractable keyboard and mouse to facilitate real-time interactive input operation;

3. Two USB interfaces, easy to import, copy out the corresponding data, or external keyboard and other operations;

4. The top status indicator, prompting the equipment standby, running, abnormal three states, real-time reflection of the equipment work;

5. Function indicator for standby, running, abnormal three states, corresponding to the entrance of the upper edge of the indicator, convenient from different angles to view the status of the equipment in a timely manner;

6. The equipment is equipped with emergency stop button, in the event of special circumstances, you can emergency stop the equipment, brake shutter motor, in order to deal with timely;

7. The equipment has a built-in wide-angle monitoring camera, which can be used to view the internal operation status in real time at the external industrial control of the channel machine;

8. The side of the channel machine anti-collision limit step design, to prevent the cart from entering the collision of the antenna and the channel machine wall;

9. The anti-collision structure is made of nylon material, strong and durable, equipped with two-color warning strips, eye-catching appearance;

10. Equipped with electric low-noise rolling gate, adopting high-speed motor, which can open and close the gate quickly;

11. Adopting special shielding roller shutter, the signal of the channel machine is not leaked, preventing the occurrence of serial reading of labels;

12. Two groups of foreign object detection sensors, real-time detection of foreign objects, linkage of rolling gates to prevent clamping and damage;

13. Using PLC for automation control, realize the automatic opening and closing of the rolling shutter door, and close the door detection, to prevent serial reading to the warehouse labels; (Rolling shutter opening/closing time can be controlled within 3S)

14. Built-in 6 groups of cargo sensors, real-time detection of the location of the goods in order to link the PLC for the corresponding operation;

15. Adopting strong performance UHF module, can quickly recognize batch quantity more than 800 pieces of products;

16. Entrance light indication, can be configured with channel machine entrance LED inventory display, real-time display of the total number of inventory;

17. Communication using WiFi and network interface for external communication in two ways, according to different use scenarios can be used flexibly;

18.6 super quiet casters, single wheel bearing more than 150KG, height adjustable. Easy to carry and fix when adjusting the height;

19. Hidden design, beautiful appearance, no metal screws on the surface, high degree of integration of the equipment, enhance the product grade;

20. Top flying eaves design, dexterous appearance, increasing the display width of the display along the top of the entrance, oblique design is more convenient for users to watch the data and status;

21. Can control the channel machine roll-up and equipment reading, provide a complete set of equipment SDK docking development information to support secondary development;

22. inventory efficiency by more than 100 times, the original manual inventory work takes 5-10 minutes, UHF inventory channel machine only 3-5 seconds.

(3) the operation process

warehousing site staff first use RFID handheld to handle the outgoing task. Processing, the staff only need to select the handheld to be processed out of the warehouse task (sales department to deal with customer demand, will generate an electronic sales documents, and automatically sent to the back-end server; warehousing department can be received in real time to the sales documents, processing is completed that is the formation of the corresponding out of the warehouse task, and automatically sent to the back-end server for the work of the site of the handheld machine query, download), after determining the handheld machine That is, through the back-end server will automatically download the outgoing task to the fixed read-write at the exit of the warehouse. After the download is completed, the stationary read-write will display the quantity of each type of flour required to be taken out of the warehouse and the quantity that has been taken out of the warehouse on the LED plate.

Warehousing staff in accordance with the LED plate shows the number of each type of flour needed to go out of storage, the corresponding flour from the RFID shelves to the forklift, the site staff will be put on the forklift flour pushed to the RFID channel machine, the flour into the RFID channel machine, the channel machine automatically closes the shutter door and the flour for RFID identification. After the identification is completed, the flour information (such as flour type, etc.) will be displayed on the touch operation screen of the channel door, and at the same time start the sound prompts, this inventory process takes only 1 to 3 seconds to complete the 1-1000 quantity of goods. And, the channel will automatically send this outgoing data to the background database for updating. At this point, the accurate and automatic registration of flour out of the warehouse is completed.

In addition, the use of on-site RFID handhelds can also realize other auxiliary management of the warehouse. For example, query the specified type of flour out of storage history, automatically generate and print the specified date of the storage record report.

4、Inventory management

Inventory management is mainly for the storage of grain inventory inventory statistics, eliminating the manual scanning and entry of the work of the tedious and error may be.

Recommended for automatic inventory: RFID intelligent shelves

(1) Product Description

based on RFID automatic identification technology can realize the real-time inventory of goods and other functions, can be linked to intelligent access control, handheld machines, etc. to realize the inventory of items in the warehouse, in and out of the management.

(2) Product features

1. full-automatic management: full-automatic inventory of tools borrowed and returned, eliminating the tediousness of manual scanning and entry work and the possibility of error.

2. a keyboard point function: 10 seconds to realize the daily and monthly inspection;

3. data collection, scientific analysis: real-time recording of items received and returned data.

(3) The operation process

unattended, can be run 24 hours a day, fully automated inventory of food in the warehouse, real-time monitoring and recording, when encountered in some goods inventory shortage will be automatically reported and reminded of the warehouse administrator receives the information according to its situation can be completed replenishment tasks.

5、Quick Find

Find Jobs Recommended：RFID handhelds

(1) Product Description

has a powerful: UHF UHF read/write function / 1D 2D barcode scanning function / NFC read/write function and other scalability, with better sensitivity, which helps to achieve more accurate and faster data collection and need to achieve the function. It adopts the latest Android 11 operating system and is equipped with a 2.3GHz octa-core high-speed processor with long battery life.

(2) Product Features

1. excellent performance Support protocol: ISO 18000-6C

2. Convenient development Provide C# and Java development materials

3. large touch screen 5.2-inch IPS HD screen

4. long battery life 8000mAh battery, working time more than 12 hours

5. Ultra-long identification distance support up to 10 meters above the RFID distance identification

6. support for intensive inventory multi-label intensive inventory high efficiency

(3) operation process

When you need to find specific goods, you can enter the relevant goods information in the RFID handheld, scanning goods within a certain range. When scanned to the target goods, the handheld screen will automatically display the location of the goods, while the RFID shelves will also issue a warning light to remind the warehouse staff, can quickly find the goods where the shelf location.

6, the benefits brought

(1) SEIKORFID this set of solutions to successfully change the traditional, the original rely on manual counting to access and inventory management mode, significantly reducing the error rate.

(2) Greatly improve the work efficiency of field workers, reduce the labor intensity of field workers, and realize “relying on science and technology to improve labor efficiency”.

(3) Ensure that warehousing data, inventory data with a high degree of real-time, accuracy and connectivity, very conducive to the sharing of information resources within the unit.

(4) The integration of advanced RFID technology warehouse management system, greatly enhancing the modernization and informatization level of the enterprise units, to win higher economic benefits.