Manufacturing · Global · 6 lines
WIP visibility from blind to 99.2% across six production lines.
A multinational FMCG packaging plant had no real-time view of work-in-progress across six lines, and reconciled pallets by hand.
The challenge
What they were up against.
No real-time WIP location
Six production lines ran with no live view of where work-in-progress actually was.
Manual dock reconciliation
Pallet-level dock-door reconciliation was a manual, error-prone process.
Traceability gaps
Gaps in traceability risked findings against IATF and customer audits.
Our approach
Vendor-neutral, outcome-led.
We designed a vendor-neutral RAIN RFID architecture at cells and dock doors, and normalised reads into the MES through a vendor-neutral event bus so the radio layer stays replaceable.
How we solved it
What we delivered.
- RAIN RFID WIP across six lines plus pallet-level dock reconciliation
- An event bus normalising reads into the MES
- Andon alerts and dwell analytics on the line
Results
The outcome the board saw.
99.2%
WIP accuracy
6
Production lines
Real-time
Dock reconciliation
Audit
Grade traceability
Technology used
The stack behind it
RAIN RFIDEvent bus / MQTTMES integration