eng Science and Education Publishing American Journal of Industrial Engineering 2013-11-17 1 2 36 40 10.12691/ajie-1-2-5 AJIE2013125 article Nurizati Syakirin Rosli izatisyakirin@gmail.com 1 Ahmad Yusairi Bani Hashim 1 Zamberi Jamaludin 1 Department of Robotics and Automation, Faculty of Manufacturing Engineering, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Melaka, Malaysia Pallets are the common form of material transport equipment together with forklift conveyer or transport vehicles in a factory. In supply chain, the importance of pallet usage is significant, allowing efficient handling of items. The movements of palettes on a factory floor, however, are manually tracked. Thus, they are difficult to be closely monitored. This results in loss of time, energy, and efficiency. To improve the efficiency and accuracy of palette movements and to eliminate the loss of time and energy of parts movement in or out of the factory, this work introduced the application of a radio frequency identification (RFID) based automatic tracking system. In this paper, we demonstrate the technique of using the RFID technology as a platform to improve the efficiency in the pallet movements. http://pubs.sciepub.com/ajie/1/2/5/ajie-1-2-5.pdf material handlingRFIDefficiency in the movement