Ubisense Tracking Tennis Players

The Clarity Center and Tennis Ireland have built a fantastic application that tracks and records the movements of tennis players for analysis and real-time camera control.

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Ubisense and Skillweb launch pre-integrated precise real time location system for effective warehouse management

Ubisense, the world leader in precise real-time location systems, together with Skillweb, a recognised UK leader for logistics support systems, announce a partnership and immediate availability of purpose-built applications for the UK Transport and Logistics market

Cambridge, UK, 4 May 2009 - “The challenge of acquiring reliable location data on assets and equipment in complex warehouse layouts has been a major obstacle, and has so far prevented substantial improvements in productivity” says Paul Ridden, Managing Director of Skillweb. “We have been searching for a solution that could reliably find individual pallets, fork-lifts, scanners or people and track their movements in real-time. Having evaluated many systems that claim to do so, we were delighted to see Ubisense installations that really work and are reliably accurate – right down to 6 inches.

Using the precision and reliability of the Ubisense Solution allows us to track individual asset locations and trace their movements anywhere within the warehouse, in 3D. This allows us to design much more sophisticated solutions for our customers who want the flexibility of a warehouse management system that doesn’t rely on a fixed network of RFID readers and locations. By simply integrating with our standard track and trace software we can deploy the Ubisense System quickly, with minimal equipment, and maintain a very flexible approach across the whole warehouse/depot environment”.

Skillweb have invested in a test laboratory installation at their Headquarters in High Wycombe where they have extensively tested the system with real operational requirements. Customers are invited to experience the technology first hand. Skillweb are integrating the technology with their portfolio of systems in order to make it available for their customers such as DHL, Air Products, British Telecom, Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man Post offices

Ubisense Process Tracker drives production optimization for manufacturing market

Ubisense, the World leader in precise real-time location systems, today announces the availability of its Process Tracker Application meeting the needs of its rapidly growing Industrial customer base.

The application already in use at customers such as Aston Martin and Cummins provides real-time visibility throughout processes such as rework and finishing in automotive manufacturing plants, engine manufacturing plants, aircraft assembly and MRO. Visibility alone can highlight problem areas and can be used to significantly reduce costly work-in-process by generating alerts when a product becomes stuck. But Process Tracker adds to this with weekly or daily key performance indicators (KPIs) that include such data as the ageing of product in-process, direct measurement of mean times in process steps, and more advanced measurements such as “Right-First-Time” and “Non-Value-Added-Time” by product model or across the entire process.

The application allows production engineers to draw their process step locations on a map, and to enter basic process parameters such as how long a step should take (dwell time) and constraints on step ordering (process flow definition). Combining this data with the location of tagged assets, the application delivers product tracking, dwell time and process flow monitoring, along with a range of standard output and analysis options.

Simon Holloway, Practice Leader for Process and RFID at Bloor Research says, “precise RTLS from Ubisense is clearly delivering major process improvement opportunities for manufacturing companies and Ubisense is becoming a standard in challenging manufacturing environments where both precision and reliability are key”.