It's hard to drive operational efficiency without understanding the true nature of bottlenecks and movement patterns in your facility. The SIMATIC Real-Time Locating System (RTLS) offers a way for manufacturers to track materials and products in real-time across the plant floor - and glean crucial insights on how to improve throughput while cutting costs.
SIMATIC RTLS by Siemens provides an innovative locating solution to keep your plant floor running at peak efficiency.
- Eliminate time-consuming search procedures in your facility
- Optimize inventory utilization
- Easily visualize and trace assets to improve workflow efficiency
- Customize integration of location services with your manufacturing and control systems
Real-Time Locating Systems (RTLS) offer precise, end-to-end visibility of moving objects in production and logistic processes while supporting digital twins to boost efficiency, safety, and productivity.
Simple to install and operate, RTLS solutions use existing IT networks and can provide location data of materials, tools, and vehicles within a few inches or centimeters, with latencies of less than 1 second.
RTLS can also feed data into higher-level MES and ERP systems for issuing alerts, alarms, or commands.
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SIMATIC RTLS delivers intelligence to transform your business...
RTLS allows you to benefit from greater efficiency and flexibility in logistics, material management, production, and service across every application by enabling advances in:
Competitive and evolving, the tire manufacturing industry not only benefits from improving factory performance and profitability, and employee safety, but error recall and risk mitigation are also possible with SIMATIC RTLS technology.
SIMATIC RTLS provides precision in pharmaceutical production and applications like:
Are you thinking about how to make your traditional
workflows in production and logistics more dynamic?
Do you want to be able to respond more swiftly to market changes,
optimize capacity utilization, or manufacture smaller batches?
The key is flexible, self-organizing production and logistics
concepts based on the SIMATIC RTLS locating platform.
SIMATIC Real-Time Locating Systems (RTLS) solutions from Siemens offer technology that can complete a digital production twin's picture by providing full tracking capabilities of physical objects anywhere in a plant or its surrounding premises and at all times.
SIMATIC RTLS uses ultra-wideband (UWB) wireless technology and triangulation techniques to locate objects and people equipped with UWB transponders within a few inches or centimeters of their actual positions with latencies of less than 1 second. It can also detect and report their motion, acceleration, elevation, and orientation. The RTLS system can then immediately relay all this positioning data to higher-level systems in real-time, making it available for a variety of plant applications.
Easily installed elements of the RTLS Real-Time Locating System, include:
Gateways are fix reference points in the local infrastructure for real-time locating with an accuracy measured in centimeters. They record the transponder signals and give them a fixed position stamp. The positioning data is bundled and transmitted to the locating server.
Transponders are fitted to workpieces, robots, vehicles, etc. and transmit a wireless signal at defined intervals. They can also be equipped with data interfaces, and transmit location details directly to the local control system or make them accessible for higher-level systems.
The Locating Manager is a software system that calculates the real-time position of the individual transponders and passes the details on to the higher-level systems via defined interfaces.
RTLS can help make support processes leaner and more efficient. In the maintenance sector, locating assets for servicing can be simplified by automatically comparing the position of service personnel with the digital model of the plant.
Areas of application include chemical and pharmaceutical industries where it can be used to simplify the maintenance of mobile assets, or equipment (such as containers, mobile units, or vehicles) in airports or the depots of public transport networks. Here, RTLS can reduce the need for time-consuming searching and consequently minimize costs.
