Saving time to find equipment in a cable factory


Context
The client is a leading producer of telecommunications cable with a factory comprising of several buildings in the North of France.
Hundreds of mobile equipment are used by different workstations in the factory.
Worker productivity is highly impacted by the time wasted each by employees searching for the equipment they need at their workstations.
It has been measured that 30mins are wasted each day by each of the 60 employees searching for equipment.
Solution
Ubudu RTLS based on UWB TDOA with software installed on a local server on-premise to locate more than 150 equipment with 30cm accuracy in real-time.
The system has been deployed in 2019 and initially covered 4 buildings but has recently been extended to cover another building.


Results
- 67% reduction in search time (10mins instead of 30mins).
- Savings of 20 hours of work per day.
- ROI of 6 months.
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