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Manufacturing organizations around the globe are now leaning towards just-in time or customized production in order to gain competitive advantage in an ever more intense marketplace. The problem with customized or variant production is that, organizations have to track the different product parts precisely in order to ensure that the right part is at the right place in the right amount at the right time, to deliver customized products to their customers. Due to this reason, companies are now increasingly using RFID technology to track production in real-time.

The wide spread deployment of RFID technology for production monitoring and tracking is impeded by the fact that the technology is inherently unreliable and RFID readers suffer from errors such as duplicate, false, missed and out of order readings. In this work we have presented algorithms to a) enable real-time tracking and monitoring of product parts on the …