WORK-IN-PROGRESS (WIP) VISIBILITY SOLUTION SUITE

 

InThing’s WIP Visibility Solutions provide comprehensive intelligence about the “jobs”, “bins”, “parts”, “tools” and “travelers” as they travel through various manufacturing or assembly line stages and share actionable intelligence with downstream operations

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QUICK DEPLOYMENTS


for demonstrations, walkthroughs, and pilots

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EFFORTLESS SCALABILITY


for enterprise-wide rollouts

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SEAMLESS INTEGRATION


with various sensor technologies and IT systems

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ENABLE PHASED ADOPTION


of or migration to sensor technologies

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USER-FRIENDLY INTERFACE


requiring no prior experience with complex technologies like RFID, BLE, or UWB

Solution Advantages


Comprehensive & Continuous Visibility of Assembly Line Items


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Kitting

  • Create location hierarchy for Production Line – line number, workstation, etc.
  • Create different classes (categories) of materials, tools and equipment
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Assembly

  • Assemble kits of materials for specific work order
  • Tag the 'traveler' documents and associate it with the work-order
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Pick for Production line

  • Use Visium Mobile on a Passive RFID handheld reader to find:
  • - Materials matching the line-item specification

    - Fulfill production work order and goods issue transactions

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Delivery to Workbench:

  • Get an automated record of delivery
  • Detect wrong work order materials and alert supervisors
  • Job delays due to missing items, alerts
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Worker Productivity

  • Time spent at assigned workbenches/areas
  • Total cycle time association to workers to gain productivity reports
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Advanced capabilities: Requires Integration with a Backend System:

  • Resource Utilization
  • - Monitor tools used at the Workstation

    - Reporting consumption of parts, better managed resources like raw materials, labor, and equipment

  • Route Monitoring
  • - Alerts when materials, tools and equipment are observed at unexpected areas

    - Alerts when material flow doesn’t follow the defined stages

    - Alerts due to extended dwell time monitor inventory levels, production stages, and quality issues in real-time

  • Data and Visualization
  • - Live floor-level production status overview

    - Worker productivity dashboard

    - View Production Order percentage complete

    - View WIP problems and delays identifying potential bottlenecks before they occur, allowing workers to intervene

360 Tracking

Transparency with view of supply chain

Real-time Visibility

Enhanced visibility of packages & pallets

Cost Efficient

Minimizes spends on missing items and consumable recoveries

Safe & Secure

SOC-2 compliant, risk-free critical item management

Our customers love what we do

The quality of work we provide leaves an impact on our customers. Here's what our customers and channel partners have to say about us.

With InThing Visium, we can manage all our product inventory, fleet movement from a single place, and are alerted immediately if they don't keep to a schedule.

Steven McGown

InThing has brought our manual intervention to a minimum. All of our inventory is connected to a single system, and it gives us a 360 degree view of where everything is.

James McArthur
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