Dyer Engineering is a UK manufacturer of metal components used in multiple industries. It is headquartered in County Durham where it owns two running manufacturing facilities, 3 miles apart one from the other, whose combined footprint is around 100.000 sq. feet.
PROBLEM
Given the non-linear production cycle at Dyer Engineering, different types of metals usually move back and forth inside the factory, in order to be correctly processed. This translates into nearly 5.000 components simultaneously moving around in the 2 facilities, which may entail time-consuming manual searches for items and hence higher operating costs.
Therefore, the primary goal of the project was to locate and lookup assets in real-time and with high accuracy, in order to find further efficiency gains along the production process.
SOLUTION
In early 2019, Dyer launched a Request for Proposal in order to find the best asset tracking solution in the market within the Industry 4.0 landscape exploration.
ThinkIN solution proved to be the best match to the list of requirements set by Dyer Engineering, including infrastructure cost and accuracy of the tracking system.
By locating, tracking and monitoring materials, goods, semi-finished goods, pallets and any other relevant asset inside the factory in real-time, ThinkIN creates the Digital Twin of the manufacturing plant and delivers advanced location-based services and analytics. This allowed Dyer Engineering to report a remarkable efficiency boost.
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