RFID technology deployed in Artilux, an IKEA producer in Lithuania

Autepra, a system integrator based in Vilnius (Lithuania) announces the use of a new RFID system for pallets tracking in manufacturing company’s logistic chain.
UAB Artilux NMF is a joint Lithuanian Swedish venture, producing home lighting products. Artilux was established and started its activities in autumn of 2002. Every year company produces
over 6 million of luminaries, annually it ships about 25000 pallets.

In the 2006 Artilux got a reward for most innovative solutions and new technologies implementation in production and resource management. Besides, the company was awarded by the Lithuanian Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Crafts with the “Lithuanian export prize” in the year 2006 and 2007 for the progress in development of export.
The main objective of the enterprise is to become a flexible and competitive electrical appliances & decorations supplier to selected segments of the market. Competitive growth is not possible without speeding-up and improving turnover. The main approach to achieve the necessary indicators is the workprocess with material flow optimization.

“For a long time we had difficulties with the mistakes in the warehouse operations. We invested into measures for business process optimization and ERP system implementation in 2006. To yet more improve and automate warehouse operations we have decided to implement the system of automatic identification and tracking, based on RFID technology. We are satisfied with the first RFID project, realized in beginning of 2009, results and now we decided to extend our RFID system” says Mr. Aidas Setikas, managing director of UAB “Artilux NMF”.

RFID system starts operation from production quality control point. Prewritten RFID tag is applied to each pallet with QC passed production.These pallets are tracked and traced by management system in all the rest in house logistic process.
In first phase an RFID control point was installed on the gate between production and storage. Pallet passing the gate gets time stamp “produced” and is automatically transferred from production to storage area in Navision ERP system. In case of mistake the system informs the operator by audio signal and information on the LED display.
For manual pallet’s identification at quality control point and in further warehouse operations t+t Netcom hand held computers with RFID and laser scanner are used.

The new system simplifies operators operations and increases management efficiency. It allows arranging and optimizing technological processes of warehouse and minimizes the mistakes concerned with load allocation. Thanks to this RFID system turnover will speed and increase.

“This project was our first project in RFID field. The project results are very successful and they show that CAEN equipment is very reliable and working perfectly” – says Tomas Girdzevicius, director of company Autepra – “After successful first project phase we have signed contract for the next phase – to install RFID control point on the loading ramp. This control point will assure 99,99% accuracy in truck loading process”.

CAEN RFID regional sales manager, David Pallassini says “Even if at their first RFID project, Autepra has been able to quickly adopt this technology and use its potentialities in a real automatic identification and tracking project” and added, “the technical ability of Autepra staff allowed the fast and efficient usage of our readers in Artilux’s material flow optimization process. The software part of the project, based on Navision ERP, was realized by company Sprendimų idėjos www.sprendimuidejos.lt

Information on Autepra

Company Autepra was established in 2005; since beginning Autepra is specializing in industrial, especially
logistic processes, automation. During this period Autepra customers became Lithuanian business leaders,
like Klaipedos konteineriu˛ terminalas, “Narbutas ir Ko, Via Baltika Logistika, Intersurgical, Vikeda
(Dadu ice-cream) and others, also Latvian companies Baltic container terminal and DT mobile.
Autepra’s solutions based on the best modern technologies of software development, which are used for expert
systems’ and intelligence systems’ creating. Autepra partners are professionals, creating reliable, time proven
and adaptable for each customer e-business systems.

For more information please contact:
Tomas Girdzevicius

Autepra Direktorius

Phone: +370 699 63792
Email: tgirdzevicius@autepra.lt
Web: www.autepra.lt

Information on CAEN RFID

CAEN RFID was one of the first companies in Europe to produce and distribute UHF readers. Its active involvement
in the EPC Global, AIM Europe and ETSI work groups has allowed it to provide RFID readers and tags which are in
the vanguard of existing technology.CAEN RFID readers are compliant with European (ETSI EN 300 220 and ETSI
EN 302 208) and American (FCC part 15) regulations and support both ISO18000-6B and ISO18000-6C (EPC Class 1 Gen 2)
versions. Our easy2read© modules offer a reading range from a few centimetres up to 7-8 metres distance and are a
reliable solution for a large number of applications such as access control and/or UHF gates, logistic, desktop
solutions and OEM solutions integrated into handheld or printer devices.

For more information please contact:
David Pallassini
CAEN RFID Regional Sales Manager
Phone: +39 0584 388 398
Email: d.pallassini@caen.it
Web: www.caenrfid.com