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“RFID is the Most Effective Method of Source Tagging”
Embedded miniature tags on circuit boards are well-established in electronics production. However, other industries, such as the automotive industry, could profit from “smart” objects too.
To already equip products with RFID tags in the production phase and thus make them traceable until the “end of life” – this is the vision Murata Electronics has been consistently pursuing for the past five years with their “Magicstrap”. As the driving force of the idea to establish the RFID miniature models of the Japanese technology group in the European electronics industry, Alexander M. Schmoldt says: “Today, source tagging has proven to be an effective and worthwhile application that is in productive use at leading manufacturers such as Schneider Electric. However, the concept can equally well be transferred to other industries such as automotive added value chains.
Alexander M. Schmoldt, Business Development Manager, Murata Electronics, in an interview with “RFID im Blick”
The Magicstrap concept: revolution on the circuit board
“It was a small revolution for the electronics industry when Murata introduced the Magicstrap to the market,” explains Alexander Schmoldt, Business Development Manager, Murata Electronics. The idea of directly adding miniature UHF tags to the circuit board, was a technical innovation at that time: The Magicstrap concept is based on the inversion of the physical principle and thus allows the transformation of metallic objects into an RFID tag. “More than 90 percent of the PCBs have an enlarged copper layer, the so-called ‘ground plane‘. We turned the main obstacle into an advantage by using the metal surface of the PCB instead of the dipole aerial as booster antenna. On top of that, the approach was completely new: to make products traceable right from their creation and throughout the whole value chain – from the cradle to the grave, brings an entirely new view on added value chains into play.”
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To add RFID to production directly during the manufacturing process is the most effective way of source tagging.