Evaluation of enabling RFID technology on the operation visibility in MRO plant

This paper presents a hardware simulation study for an MRO shop and highlights the reduction in process time due to the introduction of RFID technology. Use of this technology will not only result in less number of process steps, but also enable the operation planner to get real time updates on the location and processing of various components scattered within the workshop. Each RFID tag will store its (read workshop component) own history, expiry date, time stamps. The RFID tag can be an electronic substitute for a physical piece of paper that accompanies a particular dasiajobpsila logging its details for the different processes that it undergoes. Thus, by scanning the tag, one can easily trace back the history of that job; and by making available this information at real time, a complete operation visibility is attained.