Case study · AerospaceAnonymised by request. Named references under NDA.
Defence · Secure manufacturing

Full chain-of-custody for calibrated tools and restricted assets.

A major defence manufacturer lacked visibility of calibrated tools, serialized components, restricted assets and WIP across multiple secure production zones — driving missing tools, manual audits and compliance risk.

Defence · Secure manufacturingSecure tool & asset traceabilityHybrid RTLS / RFID + analytics · measured outcomes.live asset position70–90%faster asset retrieval100%digital chain-of-custody
The challenge

What they were up against.

No tool visibility

Calibrated tools, serialized parts and restricted assets went missing across secure zones.

Manual audits

Chain-of-custody was manual and slow, creating compliance and production risk.

Production stoppages

Misplaced tooling stalled high-precision assembly cells.

Our approach

Vendor-neutral, outcome-led.

A hybrid real-time visibility platform — RFID for serialized component validation and checkpoint scanning, BLE RTLS for wide-area indoor visibility, UWB for centimetre-level tracking in high-precision assembly cells, and AI analytics for dwell, anomaly detection and unauthorized-movement alerts.

How we solved it

What we delivered.

  • RFID serialized component validation & checkpoint scanning
  • BLE RTLS wide-area indoor asset visibility
  • UWB centimetre-level tracking in precision assembly cells
  • AI analytics — dwell, anomaly detection, unauthorized-movement alerts
  • Full digital chain-of-custody for critical assets
Results

The outcome the board saw.

70–90%
faster asset retrieval
100%
digital chain-of-custody
Audited
tool lifecycle
Fewer
line stoppages
“Before RTLS, we were reacting to missing assets. Now we operate with full operational control and traceability.”

— Operations lead, defence manufacturing (client anonymised)

Technology used

The stack behind it

RFIDBLE RTLSUWBAI analytics
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