Wireless CNC tool tracking system for a smart factory

贝莱尔机电公司（“Belair”）是一家位于卡瓦萨湖地区中心的最先进的制造企业。公司的核心业务是设计和制造用于流体动力行业的液压回路、系统和部件。该公司正在寻求弗莱明学院的帮助，开发一种基于无线标签的系统，以实现对计算机数控（CNC）机械工具的跟踪和状态监控。Belair正在开发一个“智能工厂”，使用互连的工具和设备，以实现真正的数据驱动的监控和优化其制造过程。总的来说，该公司的目标是进一步发展智能制造业务，从而降低温室气体排放量，并在保持质量的同时降低行业的每件成本。通过强大的模块设计，制造技术流程创新以及主要的自动化操作，该公司可以通过智能工厂以大幅降低的成本生产相对低的批量。设计和开发公司运营所独有的无线工具跟踪系统具有挑战性，并且超出了公司的知识基础。通过合作，Belair和研究团队将设计和开发一个定制的跟踪系统，以满足公司的需求，并进一步努力创建一个可持续的智能工厂。当像Belair这样的加拿大小型制造商为客户提供定制部件时，加拿大的工业减少了对外国制造部件的依赖。依靠越南制造的组件将在先进制造业及其客户中看到经济效益，以及就业增长和可持续性。

Bélair Mechatronics Inc. ("Belair") is a state-of-the-art manufacturing enterprise located in the heart of the Kawartha Lakes Region. The company's core business focus is on the design and manufacturing of hydraulic circuits, systems and components to be used in the fluid power industry. The company is seeking assistance from Fleming College with the development of a wireless tag-based system to allow for the tracking and condition monitoring of Computer Numerical Control (CNC) machinery tools. Belair is in the process of developing a "smart factory" using interconnected tools and equipment to enable true data-driven monitoring and optimization of their manufacturing processes. Overall, the company's goal is to further develop smart manufacturing operations that will result in low embodied greenhouse gas emissions and the lowest cost per part for the industry, all while maintaining quality. Through robust block design, manufacturing technological process innovations, and predominantly automated operations, with a smart factory the company can produce relatively low volume batch sizes at a dramatically reduced cost. Designing and developing a wireless tool tracking system unique to the company's operations is challenging and outside of the knowledge base of the company. Working collaboratively, Belair and the research team will design and develop a custom tracking system that will meet the company's needs and further their efforts in creating a sustainable smart factory. When small Canadian manufacturers such as Belair provide their customers with custom components, Canada's industries decrease their reliance on foreign-made parts. Relying on Canadian-made components will see economic benefits, as well as job growth and sustainability, in the advanced manufacturing sector and their clients.