Audi and RFID

German carmaker, Audi, is utilizing RFID to help manage robots located at about 80 manufacturing and assembly stations.

Each tag is reusable and encoded with a unique ID number associated with a specific chassis. It also contains information concerning the chassis' intended color and other production process information.

The automotive line is very complex, and you always have to know what is where, and which step is occurring, such as which color is needed. It is a work in process…now the skid is intelligent and can tell the manufacturing machines what to do. It gives the car a voice.