Smooth production and logistics processes are indispensable to utilize the given resources in an optimal way and maximize the output. However, a lack of transparency in these processes as well as fast-changing markets, challenge today's companies in achieving highest possible productivity. Location Intelligence brings transparency into the production and enables the optimization of production workflows by realizing the digital twin of the production performance.
Production and logistics process optimization with the help of Location Intelligence in three steps
Installation of a locating system and Location Intelligence
Unveiling improvement potentials with the help of real-time analytics
Optimization of production based on results of step two
Location Intelligence is a software application for locating systems, such as SIMATIC RTLS. The mobile objects of interest (i.e. material boxes of an order) are equipped with a transponder of the locating system. Thus, the position of the objects is known. In Location Intelligence this information is combined with order information of the customer. Thanks to the positioning data, transparency over logistics and production is increased and the digital twin of performance can be realized. Using real-time tracking and analytics, bottlenecks and other anomalies in the production and logistics processes can then easily be detected and eliminated.