See every job on the floor — and find the real constraint.
A plant loses time hunting for WIP carriers, tools and trolleys, and can’t see where jobs actually queue. OEE plateaus because the true bottleneck is invisible.
What the programme delivered.
Time spent searching for assets / WIP.
WIP location accuracy vs manual tracking.
Typical OEE gain from de-bottlenecking.
Client identity withheld under confidentiality. Figures reflect outcomes from comparable RTLS/RFID deployments; your own numbers depend on use case, environment and execution.
The challenge
Paper and barcode WIP tracking is stale the moment it’s recorded. Staff walk to search; managers guess at the constraint; rebalancing is slow.
Our approach
- Tag WIP carriers, tooling and key mobile assets.
- UWB where sub-metre zone accuracy matters; BLE for cost-sensitive zoning.
- Zone-dwell analytics to expose the real bottleneck.
- Automated work-order progress from location events.
- Tie into MES for closed-loop scheduling.
Technology & integration
Stack deployed: UWB (10–30 cm, <100 ms) for precision zones, BLE for broad coverage, RAIN RFID for read-points.
Integration: MES, ERP, SCADA / historian, quality systems.
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