RFID help Israel cheese producer Tnuva increased Cheese Production and minimize operation cost

Global dairy products company Tnuva produces cheese and other food products sold to consumers throughout Israel, the Middle East, Europe and the United States. The manufacture of high-quality cheese is a sensitive process that requires heating, cooling and soaking at very specific lengths of time. If any mistakes are made, an entire lot must be discarded.

Five years ago, the company began using RFID technology at one plant, to track the process of manufacturing cheese on conveyor belts. A few years later, it expanded the deployment to a second factory, to monitor a more complex process in which batches of cheese pass through a series of stations before being loaded onto pallets and then being shipped. For the second installation, completed in 2011, active RFID tags are used to track carts filled with product that move through coolers, heaters and pools of saline water, while passive ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) tags help the company to manage the movements of loaded pallets after production and until the goods are loaded onto trucks.

Tnuva said rfid technology has led to fewer errors and increased efficiency at both plants. Thanks to the RFID technology, plant managers can now identify when any given product could be at risk of an error (such as cheese production failing to complete the necessary processes within the expected amount of time). The managers have also been able to increase plant efficiency, by reviewing the RFID data to identify bottlenecks and adjust product flow accordingly.

RFID help Israel cheese producer Tnuva increased Cheese Production and minimize operation cost

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