The tool everybody needs, and where it is.
On a factory floor the costly minutes are not spent working. They are spent looking: for a jig, a torque wrench, a trolley of parts that was here yesterday.
- Shared tools and jigs
- Work in progress between stations
- Dwell time at each station
- Tools by RFID, in early access
Three uses that pay for themselves.
Finding
Open the plan, pick the tool by name, walk to it.
Following
A trolley or pallet of work in progress, tagged once, seen at each station it visits.
Timing
How long a job stays in each area, from the dwell report rather than from a clipboard.
Radio on a factory floor.
Steel is unkind to radio. Machines, racking and metal partitions reflect and absorb it, and a factory is full of all three. This is where the survey earns its keep: with the Mesh Calibration app an installer walks the floor and records what the anchors hear, and positions are then worked out against that record of the real floor.
Anchors run on batteries and need no cabling, which matters in a building where pulling a cable means stopping a line.
Tools, one by one.
Not every tool merits a battery tag. For tools and returnable containers handled item by item, InSight RFID uses labels read by fixed readers and handheld scanners, with each read kept as evidence of where and when the item was seen. It is in early access.
Other places
Which of your clients has this problem?
Tell us the kind of site and what goes astray in it. We will set out what a first installation would take, in hardware and on your platform.