SEMICON Japan 2025 live: Xedion presents RFID-powered reusable box system
18 Dec 2025 | Xedion
Harald Buchmann, member of the supervisory board at Xedion, discussed the latest RFID and sensor solutions. The company’s logistic reusable box system uses RFID technology to automatically reorder empty bins. It features easy installation, RFID control software, and a lifting wagon for transferring bins.
Hello, this is Xicheng Wang from CNS Media, journalist from Packaging Insight.
Today I'm here with Mr.
Bachman from ZDN.
Hi.
Could you please tell us what you're presenting at the trade show today?
Present an RFID system, low frequency, and this is used inside the clean room for the identification of the FOs.
The FOO is a cassette where the wafers are inside, so it's basically for the material flow.
In each cassette there is this pill.
This is a transponder.
And inside each tool we have One of our readers.
And this is the antenna, and the transponder sends out an electromagnetic wave to the antenna, and the antenna processes in the reader, and the reader sends the information to the whole system.
OK, so, this is your latest development in RFID.
Do you see how it has become a logistics solution?
Like this solution is a material flow, material control solution.
This is inside the, fab.
What we have, we have a product that is used for for packaging of a Kanban solutions which is a a box that makes an automated reordering process.
So it's basically a box with a transponder reader inside and the custom.
Has an RFID tag on its box.
If the box is empty, he takes the empty box, throws it inside our RFID box.
The transponder is identified, and this generates an automatic reordering of the products he basically has used.
Yes, so we know that you have RFID inside the box and in the application it adds a sensor in the box.
And how is that sensor providing more information to the manager?
Yeah, the, the, the transponder is basically a memory.
And depending on what you link to this memory, like it's basically a long number that's written on the transponder, so you can basically whatever combine it with your lot ID you can combine it with your product numbers with your product description, everything.
It's it's a column basically.
So, you just said that the box can be reused and so how do you reuse the data?
Now what we do is basically we identify the transponder and in the database, you know this transponder represents a certain product.
So if I identify this transponder, I know I have a certain product and I need to reorder this certain product.
So it's basically from, from the RFID side it's just the numbers.
The next step is on the IT side of it.
Yeah, we don't write the, the product code or something on the transponder.
The transponder is just a unique number and this is linked to more information which is inside.
The ID the IT system is on the server basically.
So the RFID provides a tool for the internet of things.
So, yes, for the final question, is there anything you're looking into in the near future and what you are planning for the latest research and development.
In my opinion, the future of the RFID system is a combination of sensor and RFID.
So what we do is we combine the feature of the RFID system with a sensor.
This means, for instance, I can put a temperature sensor within the transponder.
So the transponder gives me the number plus the temperature where it is located.
Like, let's say I use some wine boxes and I know which temperature they have now, or I can combine the RFID system with a humidity sensor.
And the whole system is still based on the RFID, so it's battery less, battery free, but you get additional information, not just a number, you get some additional sensoric, and I think this is the future of the RFID system.
Yes, thank you so much.
You're welcome.
