(Special Issue - Wireless Manufacturing) RFID in product lifecycle management: a case in the automotive industry

Hui Cao (1) , Paul Folan (1) , Julien Etienne Mascolo (2) , Jim J Browne (3)

1 Computer Integrated Manufacturing Research Unit (CIMRU), National University of Ireland, Galway
2 FIAT Research Center
3 Department of Industrial Engineering

The circumstances of globalisation and ever-stricter environmental legislation over the past decade have led enterprises to work together to transform products into extended products, and to manage these throughout their life cycle. Innovative Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology can be introduced as an enabler of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) business, by enhancing the traceability of the product throughout its value chain via automatic identification, enabling the collection of product usage information during its Middle-of-Life (MOL) phase, and facilitating the integration of product life cycle information and knowledge across the value chain, thus closing the product's information loop from Beginning-of-Life (BOL), through MOL, to End-of-Life (EOL) and back again. This paper will introduce a framework for product life cycle information management with the support of RFID technology. A case study of how the framework supports the decision-making involved in the different life cycle phases of the automotive industry will be described using UML models.

Mots clés: Physical Sciences

Hui Cao, Paul Folan, Julien Etienne Mascolo, Jim J Browne. (Special Issue - Wireless Manufacturing) RFID in product lifecycle management: a case in the automotive industry. International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, 2009, 22 (07), pp.616-637. ⟨10.1080/09511920701522981⟩. ⟨hal-00513396⟩