RFID technology to control manufacturing systems using OPC server

Abstract

Starting from the “Industry 4.0” concept, this work aims to develop an event-condition-action (ECA) based structure to control intelligent manufacturing systems (IMS). RFID technology is used as a main component to gather data from shop floor. This data is used to control product routing among workstations and to control systems agents (robot's arms for example). The whole system has OPC based architecture.