Coupling Manufacturing requires cutting, threading, coating, and inspection production steps to be performed on steel pipe before a usable coupling is created. The tooling configuration, workflow visibility and inventory & quality control becomes a significant resource overhead when hundreds of hundreds of thousands of couplings are produced on a daily basis. Using a Radio Frequency Identification in a coupling shop, means being able to read work order identifications that are associated to each pallet and automatically configure tooling for CNC machines, it means improving the efficiency of production by have real-time visibility into progress of each production process, it means having the ability to update inventory records and schedule production seamlessly. The wireless and hands-free capability that the technology offers enables these data captures to occur without slowing down production or even requiring employees to perform these scans.