RFID Technology for Turnover Box & Pallet Tracking
Why combine RFID technology into the pallet & turnover box management?
Many companies lease pallets, turnover box, foldable Large Containers, and other logistics containers in order to offload the cost of maintaining their own pallet fleet. However, Due to the variety of product materials and the increase in the scale of logistics and distribution, the use of logistics turnover boxes and other containers has become more and more, and the phenomenon of loss of turnover boxes has also increased, which resulted in higher and higher management costs. The managing return of these items has often proven challenging for pallet providers.
RFID deployment seamless trace & track pallet and GTL/SLC/KLT. It helps to reduce labor, improve work efficiency, enhance supply chain transparency, reduce costs, and improve data accuracy. Furthermore, RFID helps leasing companies better manage a large number of reusable KLT and pallets to avoid losses caused by loss.
RFID technology can fast, improve efficiency, and save labor cost during the management of turnout and warehouse operations and logistics distribution in an automatic reading manner. Unlike traditional barcode tags, RFID tags can be read and wrote repeatedly, and stored information can be compensated and modified. RFID tag provides a unique identification for each re-usable turnover box, pallet when read by RFID readers, allowing transparent, real-time tracking of every pallet through the supply chain.
HUAYUAN has rich experience in assembling RFID in industrial production automation, for example pallet lease, industrial production control, automotive industry, food industry, and medical industry etc.. HUAYUAN is capable of offering custom RFID tags for reusable plastic packaging like GTL/SLC/KLT.
Key features to Global Transport Label for GTL/SLC/KLT including:
* Robust for different scene of industrial applications, for 1 to 5 years lifetime.
* Waterproof, chemical resistant, cold / heat resistant
* Ideal RFID designs based on the performance on site
* Visual data sustainability well matches the data in the RFID Chip
* Flexible RFID tag solutions for various environments
* Compliant with VDA recommendations 4994 and 5501.
RFID Selections
RFID tags are classified into two types, active and passive, based on different ways of transmitting frequency signals.
The active RFID tag built-in battery has a long read range but high cost. It is mainly used in applications such as long-range detection of valuables.
Passive RFID tags without batteries, low prices relatively, but read distance and storage capacity are limited by energy power. In the logistics turnover box management application, the working distance is within 2 meters, and the storage capacity requirement is not too large, so passive RFID tags are the best for selection.
The mainly RFID frequencies used in logistics turnover boxes & pallets are high frequency (HF) and ultra-high frequency (UHF). HF reading distance is relatively close, normally not more than 1.5 meters, but the strong ability to read tags through objects. The UHF in the RAIN RFID technology （passive UHF RFID conforming to GS1 EPC Class1 Gen2 or ISO 18000-63 standards）has long reading distance 3 ~ 9 meters, but the poor penetration.
For the logistics turnover box RFID tag and RFID pallet tag management, since the middle distance of the warehouse door is about 2 meters, and it does not need to penetrate the turnover box or pallet, and various commodities, so you can choose UHF tags with read distance range 3~9meters.
What kinds of RFID Tags used for pallets management, plastic crates?
Considering the working environment of pallets and totes, HUAYUAN recommends and can provides four type of RFID tags:
UHF RFID eKanban
- Cost-effective solution for the cardboard.
- Installation: Plug-in, adhesive.
- Variable data is printable, EPC encoding
- Thickness, 0.2~0.4mm
- Customized size is available, based on pallet or turnover box slot
Plastic housing RFID pallet tags
- Robust and durable.
- Protected against dust and water.
- Variable data is printable.
- Multiple size for selection.
- Installation by screw or insert into plastic container/turnover container barrel.
For example, compliant with the VDA standard KLT turnover box, the plastic crates RFID tag is inserted into a slot and can be replaced after a cycle, or the code can be rewritten for RFID pallet tracking.
RFID laminated PVC pallet tracking tags
- Durable, anti-collision
- Installation: Plug-in, adhesive, rivet
- Thickness: 0.8-1.0mm
- Printing: Logo printing
- Size: Custom, based on pallet or turnover box slot
- Working Environment: Waterproof, chemical resistant, cold/heat resistant, anti-collision
- Personalization: EPC encoding comply with <GS1 General Specification>, and corresponding barcode/QR UV pre-printed.
