MAE 188: RFID on the Manufacturing Floor of Aerospace Industry

In the aerospace industry, a maintenance history is not that easy to maintain. It can be an arduous task trying to find the part number on a component especially when the component has already been assembled and the number is the back. However, searching for the number is not the only issue in tracking the maintenance history. Since the number is written down by a person, human errors are prone to exist. Perhaps, the human may have copied one number incorrectly or maybe he mixed up the numbers when inputting into the computer. The result of this long process of tracking the history of the part is inaccurate information given to the vendors or airline companies, which will complicate the process when they return the part for service or it is broken already. This long process can be simplified by the use of RFID’s. In particular, for this report, the different RFID tags will be evaluated in this application.