Efficiency, productivity, and asset location accuracy are a few areas that a company seeks to improve. By tracking equipment and tools with a Real Time Location System (RTLS), companies can continuously enhance these areas.
When tools and equipment go missing, employees have to adjust or attempt to work around the disruption . These situations can occur repetitively and cause delays in production time as well as cost the company money for warehousing, production, and labor, to name a few.
With Link Labs’ AirFinder, companies can reduce or eliminate wasted costs and production downtime by tracking equipment and tools in real time. Companies can also ensure that high value equipment is well maintained as AirFinder sends alerts when calibration or inspections are needed.
Location tracking technology is beneficial in many ways. Here are some ways that your company can integrate equipment/tool tracking devices into your workflow.
Tool and equipment asset tracking allows contractors to be prepared when maintenance or replacements are due. This is also beneficial for rental equipment to ensure that customers are getting charged based on usage, and not time.
Location data can be used to optimize processes, which can have major implications for the company’s bottom line. AirFinder can monitor time spent running heavy equipment on a job site. This information helps cut costs by ensuring equipment is rented only for the time actually needed/used.
Theft can occur in any workplace. With an equipment tracking device like AirFinder, you can be notified immediately if something is moved during any time of day, and also if it leaves a specific area or zone.
By integrating location tracking technology into employee and visitor badges, you can easily automate SMS alerts if they enter a restricted area. A RTLS is also valuable in times of evacuation to ensure everyone is safe and accounted for.
Whether you’re company is based in-the-field, in a warehouse, or an office environment, all types of industries deal with tools and equipment on a daily basis. How does your industry fit in and how can AirFinder help?
IoT real-time asset tracking solutions can help manufacturers and their production by reducing human errors that came with scanning the work-in-process.
The ability to track shipments and the company’s fleet can be advantageous for logistics companies.
Having an asset tracking system in hospitals can increase the utilization of assets in the hospital by knowing where it is exactly located. This cuts down the time wasted looking for it.
Railway companies are able to utilize asset tracking through locating their rail cars and conditions of the assets that are being shipped inside them. Airlines are also able to improve aircraft maintenance processes as they can have a connected network of vehicles, equipment, tools, and staff.
Traditional asset tracking solutions often rely on centralized cloud computing architectures, which, while effective in more
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