Balluff RFID tool identification embeds tool utilisation efficiency
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Industrial RFID tool identification ensures that all the tool-relevant data are stored, without contact, on a data carrier embedded in the toolholder. Because the data are continuously updated into the system's memory when the tool is loaded and unloaded, the data are always correct and up to date.
The core components of the Balluff identification system are miniature robust data carriers, a read/write head and a processor unit. The system is suitable for industrial environments and designed to withstand extreme loads from shock and vibration, and electromagnetic, thermal or chemical effects.
The RFID-based identification solution ensures reliable data transfer, even in the area surrounding metallic materials. As part of tool management systems, it can reduce non-productive time and optimise tool utilisation while virtually eliminating over-use of a specific tool. Additional benefits include easier organisation of tools and equipment, greater production assurance and avoidance of errors, for example, due to incorrect inputs or mixed-up tools.
In complex tool management solutions, they are also used in configuration and measurement devices, where, according to current practice, the first programming of the data carrier with identification and geometric data takes place.
