RFID tracking for manufacturing
Experience the connected factory.
Follow one pallet from the yard gate to the shipping door, and watch every movement become a live event in FactorySense and in your ERP.
01 - The yard
It starts with your supply chain.
When suppliers tag materials before they ship, each load arrives with a digital product passport that says what it is and where it came from. Passive reads at the gate pick up those tags as each trailer rolls in, and active tags on the trailers keep their positions current across the yard.
02 - Dock door 3
The door knows what came in, and which way it moved.
As pallets, packages, and other materials are brought through your dock doors, the outside antenna pair reads their passive tags first and the inside pair confirms them. That order tells FactorySense the goods arrived, and the goods arrival is registered in your ERP.
03 - Receiving
Each pallet is followed from the door to inspection.
In this plant a forklift carries ABC123 across receiving to the inspection zone, where a portal at the entrance reads it on arrival. Anyone looking for the pallet can see where it is and how long it has been waiting.
04 - Inspection
Inspection decisions travel with the pallet.
The inspector releases ABC123 from a tablet, one of several ways to record a decision, and FactorySense logs it in the same stream as the reads. When XYZ884 fails its check, it goes into the MRB cage, and the reader on the cage gate records the hold together with its location.
05 - The platform
Reads become transactions in your ERP.
Portals at the gate and dock doors, readers on racks, benches and line stations, active tags on trailers and IoT sensors all report into FactorySense, along with the decisions people record. FactorySense turns those reads into business events and posts the goods arrival and the goods receipt to your ERP, whether that is SAP, Oracle, NetSuite, Infor or another system, so receiving is on record the moment it happens.
06 - Stockroom
Turn Go-Finds into Go-Gets™
The forklift brings ABC123 through the put-away gate, and a reach truck sets it into rack location A-14-03. Here a reader on the truck confirms the location as the pallet goes in and again when a kit order calls for it, so the record shows where the stock is. Each move is posted to your ERP as a location transfer.
07 - Kitting
Kit completeness is confirmed before it leaves the prep area.
Picked and kitted items are staged at bench 2 and go into the kit together. The bench reader checks each part as it goes in, so a wrong part is flagged while the kitter can still swap it. Once all six are present, FactorySense confirms the kit and posts the kit build to your ERP.
08 - To the line
The kit and its record arrive at the cell together.
A tugger tows the kit along the marked route past the material supermarket to cell 4, and the portal at the cell entrance reads it on arrival. FactorySense posts the kit location transfer to your ERP. The tugger is one example; carts, AMRs and forklifts are tracked the same way.
09 - Production
Every operation is recorded as the work moves.
Work order WO-88213 leaves machining in cell 4 with a passive tag and travels along assembly line 1, here on a cart, one of several ways work moves. An antenna at each station reads the tag on arrival and records OP10, OP20 and OP30 in turn, so nobody scans a traveler. Its progress, completion and finished goods post to your ERP.
10 - Shipping door 7
Shipments are confirmed at the door they leave through.
In this plant a forklift carries FG-1042 from staging through door 7 into TRL-3310. The inside antenna pair reads it first and the outside pair second, the reverse of door 3, so FactorySense knows it is leaving, and the finished goods shipment posts to your ERP as the trailer pulls away.
Next step
See your own plant mapped this way.
Tell us what moves through your yard, docks and floor. We will show where reads would happen in your building and which of those moves would update your ERP.