Industrial RTLS
How We Improve Process Transparency at Krah Pipes?
The RTLS system consists of anchors, tags, and software to track the real-time position of large mandrils for making sewage pipes. Mandrils move through phases of production – from machine to cooling to milling. RTLS monitors the duration of each phase to the second. This enable Krah Pipes to accurately determine the real costs of making each product, verify the quality and efficiency of the process and automate the process.
Industry challenges
Unplanned downtime
The average OEE in manufacturing is only 60% due to unplanned stops and delays in the production process – the small inefficiencies are often not visible to the naked eye.
Lack of transparency
Production engineers and logistics planners struggle to get accurate data on what is happening on the production floor. Without quality data, it’s difficult to make the right decisions.
Environmental Impact
30 min of search time costs 140,000 EUR annually for a fleet of 20 forklifts. The industry needs to become more sustainable starting with the efficient use of resources.
Workplace safety
People are injured every day in vehicle collisions and accidents while using equipment. Reducing costly and demoralising accidents is a top priority for most industrial companies.
Flexible and reliable RTLS for powering a wide range of applications
Forklift tracking
The indoor tracking system for manually or automatically operated vehicles in warehouses or production plants enables you to gain more transparency over the logistics processes and find bottlenecks to increase efficiency.
- Optimise fleet size by cutting idle time
- Optimise routes and decrease distance travelled
- Find and eliminate bottlenecks
- Reliable automated data for external audits
Proximity solutions
The RTLS proximity solutions increase the safety of employees in harsh environments. Eliko RTLS creates geofences around both moving and static machines and gives warnings with visual and audio alerts. The system detects when people come within a preconfigured range of the machine.
- Reduce costly accidents, increase productivity
- Build full-coordinate RTLS network on machine
- Reliable low-latency 10 ms alerts over Ultra-Wideband
- Automatic speed reduction and machine shut-off integrations
Material handling
Accurate and reliable RTLS enables to track pallets both directly and indirectly. By tracking the location of carriers – such as forklifts, overhead cranes, it’s possible to create a virtual location of a product with every drop-off. This can reduce system costs up to 7 times. It is the only solution for handling materials where placing a tracker on the product is impossible.
- Find products fast without deploying thousands of trackers
- Identification and location built into one database
- Build FIFO logic, optimise pick-up and drop-down routes
Process Optimisation
RTLS creates transparency into manufacturing operations and improves overall OEE by around 3%. The system can help pick the right raw materials fast using location data and notifications over UWB. RTLS also improves the production cycle times by reducing micro-stoppages and idle time.
- Complete transparency of operator-led processes
- Discover and remove micro-stoppages
- Seed up cycle times by removing process bottlenecks
“As our plant has many components, materials and finished goods as well as a large number of vehicles, it used to be hard to know what was happening on the shop floor and make plans in real time. We installed the real-time tracking system in our main production building. It is full of manufacturing machinery, from heavy presses and conforming machines full of metal to assembly lines with high aluminium profiles. The first big challenge was to get an accurate system in these conditions. We studied several real-time tracking systems with different technologies and, in the end, we decided to implement the UWB RTLS from Eliko. For us, it had the best location tracking results, the easiest configuration and the best cost-efficiency ratio.”
Why choose the Eliko RTLS?
Reliable
30 cm +/- 20 cm tracking accuracy even in complex environments.
Efficient
An optimised solution where you need to install less devices.
Secure
On-premise or in your cloud. You own the data. 100% no compromises.
Supported
Full lifecycle support from consultation, network design, installation to maintenance.
Flexible
Open APIs for integration & configurations to suit your use case.
Future-proof
We’re RTLS industry experts with 10+ years of experience.
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