Proposta de automatização da rastreabilidade de amostras usando a tecnologia RFID - Radio Frequency Identification - em uma fábrica de celulose

Abstract

The commodities market competitiveness demands, for business susteinability, the companies works with resources optimization such raw materials, water, electrical energy, people, and so on. The new technologies have been helping to cover this need, as tools to business management. One of these technologies is RFID - Radio Frequency Identification, what is studied by this paper, to help the management of a wood pulp mil laboratory. This paper aims to propose an RFID application connected with a LIMS - Laboratory Information Management System - that is already in use in the mill, getting the times of sample arriving at the lab, and the time of analisys start. To reach this target, a workflow analisys is made, and a layout verification to insall the reading antennas and the placement of the tags in the sample flasks. The potential gains of the implementation are exposed, accordingly the current condition fo the laboratory.