大量轮胎召回刺激RFID的采用
大量轮胎召回刺激RFID的采用
Advanced ID reports that it has received numerous enquiries about RFID tyre tagging following the recall of some 450,000 Chinese-made tyres, recently announced in the New York Times and USA Today.
美国ADVANCED ID公司报导说,自《纽约时报》和《今日美国》宣布召回45万个中国生产的轮胎后,该公司已接到大量关于RFID轮胎标签的问询。
The company was quick to point out that, although its RFID tyre tagging system would not have prevented the manufacture of potentially faulty tyres, it could have greatly eased the administration of such a wide-scale recall by collecting and storing critical historical data (such as batch numbers and manufacturing dates and locations), thereby accurately identifying each tyre.
ADVANCED ID公司很快指出,虽然他们的RFID轮胎标签系统还不能够防止制造潜在不合格轮胎,但通过收集和储存重要历史资料,它能够极大缓解对这种大规模召回的管理(比如说生产批号、出场日期和地点),进而准确识别每一个轮胎。
Which is which?
The scope of any quality problems encountered could be more easily contained by knowing each tyre’s date of manufacture, lot size, and other data stored either in the memory in the tyre’s RFID tag, or in a company-controlled database that references a unique ID number for each tyre.
一旦了解了每一个轮胎的生产日期、批量大小和其他数据,无论这些数据是储存在RFID轮胎标签的内存里,还是在公司管理的资料库中来为每一个轮胎指定一个唯一ID号,将可以更容易地确定出现任何质量问题的范围。
Unfortunately the many UPC barcodes found on new tyres doesn’t usually provide enough data and historical information to be able to identify the manufacturing process used for each tyre. As a result, many thousands of tyres have to be assumed to be potentially faulty after only one defect is discovered. In fact, if the nature of the manufacturing problem is quite isolated, only a very small number of tyres may be affected - and being able to track and isolate them can save a fortune in unnecessary recalls.
不幸的是在许多新轮胎上发现的UPC条码经常不能提供足够的数据和历史信息来识别每个轮胎的生产流程。所以,只要有一个轮胎被发现是次品,数千个轮胎就不得不被假定为全部存在不合格问题。事实上, 如果生产问题性质是相当隔离化的,那么只有非常小部分的轮胎会被影响到-而如果能够跟踪和隔离它们,那将节省了一笔不必要召回的费用。
Wider adoption soon?
According to Dan Finch, president and CEO for Advanced ID, "We have been working with major tyre manufacturers around the world for almost two years to develop an RFID tyre tag that provides a life-of-tyre unique tyre ID number. The ability to keep track of individual tyres becomes increasingly important as a tool to minimise recall issues and to improve fleet management and tyre security capabilities, with the added benefit of better asset management."
依照Dan Finch, ADVANCED ID公司的主席兼CEO所说“我们已经与世界上主要的轮胎生产厂家就开发提供轮胎唯一ID号的RFID轮胎标签合作了两年的时间。作为减少召回事件的工具和提高车队管理和轮胎安全性,附带些较好的资产管理的好处,追踪个别轮胎能力变得日益重要
Finch feels that major tyre recalls such as this latest one will serve to motivate the tyre manufacturing industry to adopt unique, permanent ID numbers for every tyre made. Several tire manufacturers, re-treaders, and fleet operators have already embedded Advanced ID’s tags or attached the company’s patches to their tyres. Some are now reported to be working with the company for larger deployments in manufacturing processes and fleet operations.
Finch觉得类似最近这次的大部分轮胎召回有助于带动轮胎制造业采用唯一且永久的ID号给每一个生产出来的轮胎。很多轮胎厂商、轮胎翻新厂商和车队经营者已经将ADVANCED ID公司的轮胎标签封装在轮胎内部或将其补丁标签粘附在轮胎上。据报导说一些厂家将和该公司就制造工艺和车队业务上的合作进行较大的部署