Bekina Boots traces work boots from production to customer thanks to RFID

The company Bekina Boots – developer, manufacturer and distributor of professional safety boots – was looking for a solution to map the entire life cycle of their work boots.

After internal research, Bekina Boots opted for RFID technology and asked Aucxis to elaborate a solution to integrate an RFID tag in every work boot during the production process and to track the boots until they arrive at the end customer.  

At the start of a production, an RFID label is programmed and printed for every boot. The tags are integrated in the boots in a way and at a location that the tag cannot be damaged during the life cycle of these very flexible boots. When integrating the tag, certain data points are captured and linked to Bekina Boot’s database thanks to the Aucxis middleware HERTZ. 

Logistic flow

For the further follow-up of the tagged boots throughout the production process, we provide RFID readers at the crucial logistic points. 

Result

The unique identification and tracering with RFID enables Bekina Boots to thoroughly analyse several parameters of the work boots and to aim for further quality improvement.  

“Bekina Boots sees many advantages in RFID applications such as efficient stock management or access control,”  says Thomas Vanderbeke, CEO at Bekina Boots. “From our drive for continuous improvement, it is important for us to be able to retrace the boot to the very beginning of its creation.”

In the future, Bekina Boots wishes to extend its RFID applications with extra services for the end customers, for example with automatic access control for rooms which are only accessible to certain people.