RFID-Based manufacturing monitoring and analysis system

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Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) has become an important driver in the production and logistics activities of today's information-based industries and economies. With the innovative developments in information and communication technologies, companies focus more on how these changes can be implemented and promoted in order to benefit from these technologies and to improve their value-added processes. This thesis presents an RFID-based manufacturing monitoring and analysis system to bridge the gap between the physical flow of materials on the shop floor and manufacturing information and execution systems by allowing to quickly model, develop, deploy, monitor, and analyze a discrete manufacturing environment. The system was designed to be as generic as possible so that it can be applied to any existing manufacturing process without or with very little modification. In this way our system may be considered what is called an RFID-enabling technology.