Asset monitoring, wireless sensors, IOT in factories, dashboard monitoring

Inventory control

September 12, 2019ripplesiotIOT in factories, IOT in manufacturing, IOT in warehousing, IOT solutionsdistribution inventory, inventory tracking, retail inventory tracking, warehouse inventory, warehouse inventory optimisation

Inventory management, tracking & positioning

Integrating your warehouse inventory system with our factory & warehouse optimisation solution can open new doors to bring better inventory control over production and spares. The system can greatly enhance the productivity of operational staff.

Take less time to locate the position of spares & inventory with an accuracy of 7 meters
Integrate existing barcode / passive RFID part numbering with indoor positioning
Exact location and authenticity of production trollies, bins, part numbers
Wireless deployment of the entire system
API for connecting with the existing inventory system and ERP software

Warehouse inventory indoor localization for ease of tracking

No more cases of missing part numbers in production or lost spares in a logistics workshop. Our indoor tracking system for inventory control offers seamless integration with existing ERP solutions to provide single window visibility.

How many trays of food articles are loaded inside the retail store
How many boxes of chocolates are contained in each of the trays
Spared in a logistics supply chain operations workshop

Whenever the third party integrated barcode or RFID is scanned to record the inward or outward of spares/inventory, our system will be able to aggregate the count at the warehouse or production floor.

Mobile inventory control & bin tracking

In a manufacturing/supply chain and warehousing environment, it is often critical to ascertain the location of the truck and the bins or pallets carried in them. With the help of universally accepted Bluetooth Low Energy asset tracking devices, the transshipment, loading, and unloading can be traced to the last mile.

Locate where the truck currently is on GPS coordinates
Understand the loading of filled trays in the case of a retail distribution system
Using the tags to track the pallet from production to distribution and retail
Understanding the consumption of pallets in stock and empty bins
Monitoring temperature & humidity of the inventory bins being transported

Call us to know more about our inventory control software with an indoor and outdoor tracking facility.

Shop floor indoor localisation

September 3, 2019ripplesiotIndustry 4.0, IOT asset tracking, IOT in factoriesindoor GPS, indoor tracking, shop floor productivity

Factory & manufacturing efficiency

Some of the questions that we face from our customers and prospects during factory visits. They want integrated solutions that are affordable, easy to deploy, low cost of maintenance and with all required international certifications.

Q. Firstly we want to zone our workers. This would enable us to know who is present in which activity room or particular equipment at a given time duration

A. Our indoor localisation software has functions to divide the factory shopfloor into 5×5 meter zones and provide the location and movement of workers, their proximity to certain equipment.

Q After this, we want to know the utilization of our production equipment. We want to know this in order to ensure that plant and machinery is being used optimally.

A. We have equipment utilisation monitoring devices integrated on to our shop floor monitoring system, which gives a breakup of the hourly usage of various equipment. Wireless acceleration tags are attached to each of this equipment. This data can be used for Activity Based Costing purposes.

Q. The plant works for 24 hours throughout 6 days a week. Sometimes our workers speed up manufacturing by sacrificing the quality of the final product in order to free themselves from working longer hours. We ensure that their plant is constantly running and there’s no unnecessary idle time for machines.

A. The time spent by each work in a specific zone will be accurately recorded by our indoor localisation system, ensuring readily available to the operations manager.

Q. In order to make this possible they want us to give comprehensive reports of people moving in the facility and co-relate it with equipment utilization hence enabling them to address this issue.

A. Workers can be divided into different categories such as inspectors, trainers, contractors. They can be grouped under leaders to understand their behaviour on the factory shop floor.

Call us to know more about our Indoor localisation solutions for factories, warehouses, factories, and construction sites.

Automation workshop

August 15, 2019ripplesiotCost of ownership, IOT asset tracking, IOT in construction, IOT in factories

Improving shop floor productivity

Wirepas application software demonstration

On the 17th October 2019, we are conducting a workshop on indoor positioning systems based on Wirepas technology for shop floor optimization. We will be discussing use cases in manufacturing, warehousing, supply chain logistics & healthcare industries.

Venue – Level 6, Vanguard Campus, 1 Kallang Junction, Singapore

Time – 4 pm to 5 pm

Target audience – Senior and mid level managers, consultants

Ripples IOT is among the pioneers in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT) space, with own hardware devices, embedded software, data visualization tools in manufacturing, healthcare and supply chain logistics. Delivered over 100 projects over the last 5 years to customers in 15+ countries. A live demonstration of the solutions will be available at the productivity workshop.

Ripples provides the necessary Wirepas application software, Bluetooth Low Energy beacons, Air quality alerts, condition monitoring sensors, gateway devices, data visualisation tools, device management tools, installation, training and support for the indoor positioning system with an incredible value proposition of 5 year battery life – 5 metre accuracy and 10 minute reporting intervals – Perhaps the lowest cost for any indoor tracking systems in the world with size and massive scale.

Wirepas Mesh scales to any number of devices – two or two million nodes, whilst optimizing itself for best performance. Industries can have thousands of devices in one shop floor without interference due to the automatic and efficient use of radio resources. On the other hand, the distance between the two devices can be several kilometers. The total geographical coverage of the network is limitless because every single device is an autonomous part of the network and can operate as a router.

Indoor positioning with Wirepas application software

Wirepas is the world leader in indoor positioning. Wirepas was named the recipient of Frost & Sullivan’s 2017 Product Leadership Award in the European Internet of Things market. In its decision to choose Wirepas for the award, Frost & Sullivan, the Growth Partnership Company, highlights the strength and fit-for-purpose of Wirepas Connectivity as a product for Massive IoT, versatility regarding different applications, and the business need-driven approach of the company. Ripples have built warehouse automation software using Wirepas technology, which enables to positioning engine to locate materials with 5 meter accuracy.