Application of RFID Technology in Army Logistics Management
Military logistics visualization
RFID technology was originally a technology adopted by the US Department of Defense. During the Iraq war in which the United States and Britain subverted Saddam’s regime, the US company Savi used this technology to save the US military billions of dollars in logistical support. After the Gulf War, the military logistics systems of various countries are actively studying the use of RFID technology for defense services.
The most common mode of logistics support for the military is the problem of material transportation between the military factory and the military (wartime is the front line). In the peacetime, the transportation speed of these materials may not be high, but in wartime, whether the munitions can be accurately and timely transported to the front line is an important issue. In some extreme cases, it may even affect the situation.
Take the logistics management of the US military during the 1990 Gulf War. For example, because the RFID technology was not used at the time, the front line did not know whether the materials on the orders placed by the front line had been shipped. Due to the urgent situation of the war, there were often repeated applications. On the other hand, the military factory in the rear does not know whether the materials sent before have been sent to the front line, and repeated delivery after repeated orders. This part of the over-application has caused huge waste to military expenditures. According to post-war statistics, the excess application for repair parts is as high as $2.7 billion.
The use of RFID technology, combined with modern computer communication networks, can accurately track the location and whereabouts of military items. An RFID tag can be attached to each munition or on each container of munitions so that these items can be uniquely identified. During the transportation of materials, when the transportation team (ships or trucks, train trailers) pass through a certain RFID identification base station, the RFID tags on these items are read by the read-write devices, and the information is transmitted through the wireless network. It is transmitted to a database on a network server dedicated to managing military logistics. In this way, anyone with the appropriate authority can check the location, destination and path of the material of interest at any time before any military terminal. In this way, both the front line and the rear know the delivery of munitions, and it is possible to avoid the possibility of repeated applications.
There are also many ways to identify the base station for RFID. For shipping, you can set up identification base stations at each port along the route. When the freighter enters port or stays, you can read all the information on the ship. For land transportation (cars, trains, etc.), it is possible to set up a mobile identification base station on the way that must travel, to read and transmit the information of the goods passing through the supply team, or to set up the identification base station in the cargo distribution center, and complete the tracking at the same time. Goods inventory.
Another reason for the slow transport of munitions is that the inventory work at the cargo distribution site is too cumbersome. In the wartime, the munitions of the front line of the munitions stack (or docks, etc.) often pile up a large amount of materials. If manual inventory and distribution are carried out, the workload is extremely large and the time required will be long. This obviously slows down the speed at which munitions reach the front line.
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