Thanks to Eximia, the company has reached extraordinary levels of efficiency.
Over 400 employees, worldwide presence, and a production capacity of 300,000 kg per day. Italcanditi is the leading Italian company in the production of fruit-based ingredients and creams for the food industry.
Customer needs
- Identify and track stainless steel containers that transport raw materials and semi-finished products within the production and logistics process.
- Improve the progress of WIP (Work In Progress) processes.
- Monitor production points in all phases: from raw material reception to production and intermediate storage, up to warehouse management and shipments.
The approach
We realized a solution based on Rain RFID technology and customized on the customer’s needs. The system has been implemented in 3 areas: cans handling and return, equipment reading in the washing department, containers reading in a production department.
The hardware infrastructure includes RFID readers and forklifts, handheld devices for barcode reading, forklifts able to identify raw material containers during loading and unloading as well as to associate weighing data of the same. And special RFID MoM (mount on metal) tags, applicable on metal surfaces and with food certification for cans and trolleys.
On the software side we have implemented our Middleware that allows to manage the RFID infrastructure, the data coming from the tags and from the field and represents the interface with the MES.
The project also provides for the extension of the RFID infrastructure at all points of the production phases.