Customer solutions

Nokian Tyres (www.nokiantyres.com) is a Finnish manufacturer of tires, specializing in winter tires for personal cars,buses and other heavy vehicles. As a result of successful cooperation between three RFID companies Trackway, Elektrobit and Confidex, Nokian Tyres is now deploying RFID based Manufacturing Execution System in their tyre manufacturing processes.

The automated ID implementation covers two manufacturing lines and 27 assembly lines at the production plant in Finland. The tread wagons used in production process were serialised with Confidex Survivor^TM RFID tags that are designed especially for harsh environments and metal surfaces. A total of  1000 Survivor tags were deployed at Nokian Tyres during this project.

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Volvo Cars Gent in Belgium, the largest manufacturing plant of Volvo Cars outside Sweden, uses Confidex Corona tag for tracking car bodies throughout the manufacturing processes. Corona is fixed on the car chassis in the beginning of the welding plant and the tag follows the car also through the challenging conditions of the paint shops.

With its excellent abilities to withstand high temperatures and several chemical processes, Confidex Corona was the optimal tag solution for Volvo Cars Gent RFID work-in-progress tracking. 

Further information about Confidex Corona

Valtra Suolahti tractor factory, that is part of world wide ACGO Group, is using Confidex Pino in their RFID pilot for increasing automation in supply chain and warehouse management. Pino is installed in wooden pallets which are partially painted in order to separate them from the non-RFID pallets.

One of the main advantages of using Confidex Pino is its suitability for both old and new wooden pallets. This means renewing the whole pallet pool is not necessary. Using Confidex Pino enables more efficient data collection, improvement in efficiency and accuracy in the supply chain and warehouse management processes.

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Rewe Group is the first trading company in Germany to operate an entire distribution warehouse that uses RFID technology from the merchandise receiving area all the way to order picking and out-bound shipments.

Confidex Halo™ was ideal in terms of size and performance to be used to identify shelf locations of goods by work lift readers in the management system. The innovative new tags provide better system reliability together with the fork-lift reader antennas which Confidex also delivered.

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The challenge in RFID returnable transport items has been to ensure that the tags fulfill the expected life-span requirement of the transport item – which is several years typically. Confidex’s customized RTI tag addressed this reqruitement with a warranty that enables the customer to calculate the true value of usage. To facilitate application of the tags in the CC Euro Dolly manufacturing process, Confidex developed also a special quality control system to automatically encode and validate reliably the tags. By autumn 2007, in total of 300 000 tags have been delivered for this application.