Holographic Labelling for Automated Material Identification in Cim Environment

Abstract

In modern automated and computer integrated practice the material logistics in the workshop becomes ever more important. In this context the automatic identification system plays a fundamental role in the control and management of the material flow by allowing the correct and prompt distribution of the relevant material information within the productive process. This paper contains the state of the art of the results of the Esprit HIDCIM project which objective is the demonstration of the feasibility of an automatic identification system that is based on computer generated holographic tags.

The industrial manufacturing test bed associated with the project is described and an outline is given of the integration of the new identification system in the already existing CIM environment; the context of the application is the workshop tool management system.