This paper proposes an innovative real-time manufacturing cost tracking system (RT-MCT)
which integrates the concepts of lean manufacturing and RFID. The RT-MCT is developed …

Radio frequency identification (RFID) is a promising technology which can potentially assist
in enhancing the efficiency of manufacturing by reorganising and optimising internal …

Traditional restaurant service is typically passive: Waiters must interact with customers
directly before processing their orders. However, a high-quality service system should be …

The discrete manufacturing workshops usually suffer from a bottleneck of capturing and
collection of real-time field information, which is important for improving reactivity capability …

With the rapid development of the modern manufacture, a radio frequency identification–
based tracking network has been gradually established to monitor and track the material …

This chapter provides a general introduction to the research topic, which is necessary to
understand the contribution of this work. This part of the research provides on one side a …

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology has been widely used in many fields.
However, previous studies have mainly focused on product life cycle tracking, and there are …

This paper presents a novel radio-frequency identification (RFID)-based smart freezer using
a new inventory-management scheme for extremely low temperature environments. The …

Summary The Internet of Things (IoT) is a platform that permits communication between
gadgets, elements, and other digitized resources that send and receive data automatically …

Discrete industry (DI) concentrates on a class of business where the production process is
basically no material change except the shape and compositions. In such DI workshop …