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April 02, 2009

Sirit RFID Solution Selected for Power Plant Inventory Tracking Program

Sirit Inc., a provider of radio frequency identification technology, reportedly announced that its INfinity 510 reader and RSI-647 Corkscrew RFID have been selected for deployment at Pacific Gas & Electric’s Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant in Avila Beach, California.

The Sirit (News - Alert) IN510 readers and RFID tags solutions are installed at the Cal Poly Global Automated Identification Technology Center. They’ve been been deployed in a project to locate critical spare parts in a massive warehouse at Diablo Canyon. Also, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission requires a physical count of Diablo Canyon’s inventory every two years.

Following the RFID implementation, spare parts are tagged with Sirit’s Corkscrew RFID tags, then read by Sirit’s IN510 readers, and installed at specified locations, with visibility into which material or items are located within a precise location range.
 
The RFID system transmits the material and location range to Diablo’s SAP (News - Alert) computer system. The data is then checked for accuracy with exceptions audited and corrected.
 
“The Sirit RFID tags and readers are exceeding our expected read performance targets,” said Del Ritchie, Supply Chain Manager, Diablo Canyon Power Plant. “Our RFID system is capturing the data we need to ensure accurate inventory for our nuclear power plant and we have been able to reduce inventory processing costs by 60 percent.”

The PolyGAIT team conducted a comparative evaluation of twenty different RFID tags types and five different RFID readers. Once this evaluation is done, the PolyGAIT team selected Sirit’s IN510 reader and Corkscrew design tag (News - Alert) for the Diablo Canyon implementation.
 
“The results of the PolyGAIT testing continues to validate the superior performance and functionality that the Sirit solution offers,” added Norbert Dawalibi, President and CEO at Sirit Inc. “We look forward to continued collaboration with Cal Poly’s group in future deployments.”

“The Diablo Canyon project is our largest undertaking to date,” said Tali Freed, Associate Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and PolyGAIT Director. “The project has evolved from an academic simulation into one that incorporates design, experimentation, development, implementation, testing and on-the-job training.”
 

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Anamika Singh is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Anamika's articles, please visit her columnist page.

Edited by Michael Dinan
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