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RFID Drives Fight Against Counterfeit Car Parts
Already, GOCERTS members routinely enter part information into the GOCERTS system. This information includes the type of part, special requirements, safety provisions, length, width, strength and other statistics that show a piece meets MQVP certification. After a manufacturer enters data, the system creates a pedigree of the product including the date, the location of production and the history of its movement throughout the supply chain. This information is then stored in the GOCERTS database.
A parts manufacturer looking to print and encode RFID labels would request a print function from GOCERTS. The product data, as well as all necessary human-readable and linear-2D bar-code information, would be sent across the Internet from a GOCERTS print server. That data could then be used to print and encode the label in-house, and to package the product for shipment.
The data would be hosted by an MQVP server in Detroit, available to participating members online with a password. "We intend to charge [for RFID functionality] by uses or number of parts produced as recorded in the GOCERTS database," Hindelang explains.
The RFID system is still in its earliest stages, however. "We did only pilot testing to connect our GOCERTS Systems remotely over the Internet to simulate interoperability with hypothetical overseas manufacturers," Hindelang says. MQVP tested a sample production lot and trialed an RFID label printer. "We used a Michigan-based systems integrator developer as a partner with local print capability and our in-house development training server," he says. MQVP has not yet determined the types of tags it would use.
The MQVP has tested the printing and encoding of RFID labels and will now work with manufacturers, which would need RFID printer-encoders to pilot the system. No specific date has been set for that pilot, however. In fact, MQVP reports being embroiled in numerous lawsuits related to what, ironically, points to the success of the GOCERTS program.
Through the use of the GOCERTS pedigree, Hindelang says, MQVP unearthed numerous cases of fraud, leading to legal actions. Because the counterfeiting lawsuits have delayed the RFID rollout for aftermarket parts suppliers and distributors, he says, the company also intends to direct its efforts to market the same system to part suppliers to aerospace and other non-auto industries.
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A parts manufacturer looking to print and encode RFID labels would request a print function from GOCERTS. The product data, as well as all necessary human-readable and linear-2D bar-code information, would be sent across the Internet from a GOCERTS print server. That data could then be used to print and encode the label in-house, and to package the product for shipment.
The data would be hosted by an MQVP server in Detroit, available to participating members online with a password. "We intend to charge [for RFID functionality] by uses or number of parts produced as recorded in the GOCERTS database," Hindelang explains.
The RFID system is still in its earliest stages, however. "We did only pilot testing to connect our GOCERTS Systems remotely over the Internet to simulate interoperability with hypothetical overseas manufacturers," Hindelang says. MQVP tested a sample production lot and trialed an RFID label printer. "We used a Michigan-based systems integrator developer as a partner with local print capability and our in-house development training server," he says. MQVP has not yet determined the types of tags it would use.
Through the use of the GOCERTS pedigree, Hindelang says, MQVP unearthed numerous cases of fraud, leading to legal actions. Because the counterfeiting lawsuits have delayed the RFID rollout for aftermarket parts suppliers and distributors, he says, the company also intends to direct its efforts to market the same system to part suppliers to aerospace and other non-auto industries.
