Riordan Manufacturing Case Study

Riordan Manufacturing Project

Riordan Manufacturing, Inc. has earned international recognition as a leader in the field of plastic injection molding with its pioneering plastic designs. Products include plastic beverage containers manufactured at its plant in Albany, Georgia, modified plastic parts produced at its plant in Pontiac, Michigan, and plastic fan parts manufactured at its facilities in Hangzhou, China. Research and development for the company is carried out at its corporate headquarters in San Jose, California. Altogether Riordan Manufacturing employs 550 people within its four facilities, including 125 corporate members. Extreme precision and quality control standards exceeding ISO 9000 allow Riordan to maintain a customer
RFID tags placed in shipments by the vendors are small (less than .5 mm square) and relatively inexpensive radio devices that communicate with scanners providing pre-defined information (Wikipedia). The scanners would automatically pick up the information in the tag without requiring any human intervention. When the shipment is identified by the RFID tag, the system will retrieve the information that has been transmitted by the vendor and compare it to the order in the database. If vendors do not place RFID tags in their shipment, wireless bar code scanners must be available for receiving personnel to scan the labels of the shipment to check them into the system. When the materials are moved from receiving to the warehouse, a similar system will record the materials as ready for use after workers have placed the materials in pre-defined kits or in lots of standardized amounts. During the process of preparing materials for production use, workers will attach bar codes or RFID tags, depending on the type of material, to the item or lot so that inventory reduction can be noted when the material is removed from the warehouse and can be tracked throughout the production phase. When a product or lot is completed in production, the identifying label or tag should be used to update the status of the product and indicate its status to be moved to the warehouse or shipping department.
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