Manufacturing Visibility

Whether to improve production service levels or as part of continuous quality control improvement measures, manufacturers are increasingly using wireless sensing technology to track the progress and correct handling of work-in-process and finished goods through the production and distribution processes.

The Blue Vector Manufacturing Visibility Solution provides the most efficient and cost-effective way to track items as they move through your manufacturing processes and immediately sense and respond to events. The solution ensures that your organization meets production service levels and quality standards, records and alerts on exceptions, achieves higher asset utilization, and distributes product correctly every time.

The solution automates and provides visibility into the diverse processes occurring throughout manufacturing facilities. For example:

    • Tags and labels. Creates and generates RFID tags at the beginning of a manufacturing line; detects and sends transactions to ERP systems to generate rating labels; triggers the printing of shipping labels
    • Key performance indicators. Measures manufacturing processes; reports on job start or cycle times or shipping cycle times; sends KPI data to ERP systems
    • Quality standards. Measures and reports on quality errors against organizational standards and service level agreements

    Solution benefits:

    • Provides information and instructions to workers in operational work areas for real-time decision-making and error-correction
    • Extends ERP, WMS, and manufacturing applications to operational work areas through standards-based, two-way data integration
    • Supports any kind of RFID tag, barcode label, or other wireless device
    • Offered as plug-and-play appliances for ease of installation and management
    • Manages an array of edge equipment, including readers, antennae, photo eyes, displays, and alarms
    • Deployed in simple stations that fit easily into your operational setting

     

    Learn more about the benefits of Blue Vector’s solutions. Call us at 650-320-8900 or email us at info@bluevector.com.

Customer Highlights

Walgreens Deploys Blue Vector in Next Generation Operations

Digital displays in Walgreens’ most advanced distribution centers use wireless sensing to track product movement onto trucks and alert workers to potential shipping errors. Tight integration with Walgreens’ core information systems ensures that each display provides instant, timely, relevant information to each worker. To read more, click here.