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RFID controlled Kanban stock management - Ziekenhuis Maas en Kempen (ZMK) in Maaseik is the first large low-rise hospital in Flanders.

RFID controlled Kanban stock management - Ziekenhuis Maas en Kempen (ZMK) in Maaseik is the first large low-rise hospital in Flanders.

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Ziekenhuis Maas en Kempen (ZMK) in Maaseik is the first large low-rise hospital in Flanders. The new building looks very contemporary and is at the same time very functional. ZMK has a capacity of 226 beds and wants to profile itself as a healing environment, which implies that it offers peace and quiet to patients, staff and visitors. Real-time stock detection In the storage rooms, all product locations/boxes were provided with an empty/full ticket holder with built-in RFID chip. These ticket holders remain present on the ISO modules and can be reused indefinitely. RFID antennas were placed in the back of the racks or above the ceiling. When adding or removing a product, the hospital staff can turn the cover plate; the RFID antennas detect the stock status (pick/no-pick/order

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