Case Study on Optimal Packaging Strategies
November 2023
Research completed by Dr. Bahar Aliakbarian, Ethan Claucherty, and Danielle Cummins of Michigan State’s Axia Insitute.
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is being utilized globally to increase supply chain visibility and optimize manufacturing processes. Full-scale implementation of this technology has proven difficult as tag readability can fluctuate due to interference from a product’s material composition and packaging density. This research explores RFID performance, product tagging configurations, and reader positions that would provide optimal tag readability for retail-level consumer packaging and shipping parcels. The customer’s goal is 100% RFID reading of the individual retail units and the shipping parcels when in the stacked pallet configuration, using only a handheld RFID reader.
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