Largest RFID solution in Europe
April 1st 2007 Toshiba Europe, which handles the customerspecific configuration of every laptop destined for the EMEA region, has implemented an RFID system at its plant in Regensburg, Germany. The system uses Toshiba Tec B-SX4 label printers and UPM Raflatec RFID tags which are coupled to an RFID reader from ADT Security/Tyco. The Regensburg plant one of the largest plants in Europe had suffered severe congestion in its warehouses – pallets of 36 laptops were brought in by truck and stored, handling staff then scanned each individual laptop, resulting in 36 scans per pallet and warehouse bottlenecks. The introduction of the RFID system has allowed pallets to flow continuously through a single RFID gate with the entire content of each pallet scanned and booked in a single movement before it is stored for further processing. The new solution will dramatically reduce the congestion and, it is hoped, increase worker productivity by an estimated 57%. The Regensburg facility saw its average throughput of configured and ready for shipment laptop PCs increase from 9500 to 15,000 units per day in 2006. Toshiba anticipates an expected peak throughput capacity of up to 30,000 units per day using nearly 4 million RFID tags per annum. More articles from Toshiba TEC Europe Retail Information Systems: | 
