Know exactly where each coil, plate, bar, and pipe is, from the moment it is picked up through storage and shipping.
Cameras read the ID of each coil, plate, bar, and pipe when it is picked up. They read what your plant already supplies, such as labels, stamps, or markings, as a barcode, by OCR, or both. We train vision models to read what you use.
The exact location of the product is determined by the carrier or vehicle transporting it. For an overhead crane, time-of-flight devices give the crane’s exact position. For haulers and other vehicles, GPS outdoors and active RFID indoors give the position. Wherever the carrier goes, the system knows where the product is.
Checkpoints add to this. Active RFID at points such as processing line portals and shipping and receiving gates is read by a reader in the vehicle, so the system records the product passing each point.
Cranes work mainly indoors, and haulers fetch product from inside and move it through the yard. Because each asset is identified at pickup and located by the carrier that moves it, yard inventory shows what is stored where, without walking the yard or relying on handwritten lists.
Hybrid GPS and active RFID keeps haulers and vehicles visible as they travel from a plant bay to the yard, instead of losing them at the doorway. Each vehicle also carries a small operator terminal and a network access point; where your plant has outdoor Wi-Fi, it connects the terminal. Positioning does not depend on Wi-Fi.
Coils are identified at pickup from the labels your plant has affixed, read by cameras as a barcode, by OCR, or both, and located by the crane or vehicle carrying them.
Plate is identified at pickup from the label, stamp, or marking your plant supplies, read by cameras and vision models, and located by its carrier.
Bars that travel in bundles are tracked physically at bundle level, and hand-off software works out which individual bars are in each bundle when they are added.
Pipe is identified at pickup from your labels, stamps, or markings, and located by the vehicle carrying it, from the finishing line through storage and shipping.
Cameras identify the product. The carrier gives its location. Checkpoints confirm it along the way.
Cameras read the labels, stamps, or markings already on each product at pickup, as a barcode, by OCR, or both.
Time-of-flight devices give the exact position of each overhead crane, and so of the product it is carrying.
GPS outdoors and active RFID indoors give the position of the vehicle transporting the product, with hand-off between the two.
Active RFID at processing line portals and shipping and receiving gates is read by a reader in the vehicle, recording the product passing each point.
Cameras read the coil ID at pickup, and the exact location comes from the carrier transporting it. Time-of-flight devices give the position of an overhead crane, and vehicles are located with GPS and active RFID.
The same way as coils. Cameras read the ID at pickup, and the crane or vehicle transporting the product gives the exact location.
No. Cameras read what your plant already supplies, such as labels, stamps, or markings, as a barcode, by OCR, or both. We train vision models to read what you use.
Physically at bundle level. Hand-off software works out which individual piece is in each bundle when it is added.
Yes. Active RFID at points such as processing line portals and shipping and receiving gates is read by a reader in the vehicle, so the system records the product passing each point.
Yes. Vehicles are tracked with hybrid GPS and active RFID that hand off between outdoor and indoor coverage, so a product is not lost at the doorway.
Pricing is set after a site and systems analysis, never before. The first step is a discovery call about your facility and what you need to track.
Tell us what you need to track and where it moves. We'll tell you how we can help and what it takes to get there. Because every facility is different, pricing is set after a call and an analysis.