The Ubisense Team -- Denver, CO

All North American Ubisense employees gathered in Denver, CO for a collaborative and educational 3-day team meeting. 

21 Ways to Chase Waste with Smart Factory

Eliminating waste is an important part of improving your production system. The old way of chasing waste was to wait until it popped up and then chase it down. This reactive approach does not achieve meaningful improvements, and it drains your organization’s energy and resources. There is a new way to chase waste: use an indoor location tracking solution and let it tell you what you need to know before it becomes a problem. Indoor location tracking can: Notify you immediately when something unexpected occurs, such as a missed step or an incorrect process sequence. Notifications can be done by email, SMS, or visual alert. Help you find inventory that is stuck, abandoned, or misplaced so that all of your equipment is properly utilized. Identify process bottlenecks with real data to help justify change or future investments. With real-time maps, event alerts, and location information, you can find and eliminate waste efficiently and proactively!

Visualize Your Factory  Ubisense Smart Factory allows you to easily search for, identify, and find an asset in real time. We know you have goals to meet and products to produce, so we have made our solution simple and intuitive; technology should enable you, not hinder you. Let us show you how it can make your job easier, your processes more efficient, and help you achieve your goal of eliminating waste.

Ubisense in Action: Hannover Messe

Picture: Dr. Andreas Schurzinger demonstrating Smart Factory at Hannover Messe

The Golden Rule: Better Visibility = Better Process

Without Ubisense you can't see the entire picture....

Visibility is a critical component in any task that involves motion. Humans rely on their sense of sight, sound, touch and even smell in order to identify and locate objects around them, and in doing so safely and efficiently complete execute tasks involving intricate motion. The seemingly simple task of walking through a crowded shopping mall requires detailed knowledge of the position, nature and motion of all objects in that environment lest we expect a wall to move out of our way, or needlessly dodge a person whose path does not in fact cross ours.

But with Ubisense you can see exactly where everything is in real time. 

Any manufacturing process is similarly a complex task involving intricate motion: parts and sub-assemblies move from suppliers to assembly facilities; items under construction move from workstation to workstation; tools, parts and workers must assemble at the right place at the right time. The list goes on and on.

In any such environment the scope for mistakes and inefficiencies is prevalent: parts delivered to the wrong place, the incorrect tools used, bottlenecks impeding progress, items lost. In just the same way that human senses provide real-time information about the environment enabling informed judgments to be made and efficient progress to follow, location intelligent systems provide visibility into manufacturing processes and give operators the visibility and control needed to optimize efficiency and eliminate mistakes.



Happy 25th Anniversary Smallworld!

Did you know?! 

Ubisense was founded by Smallworld founders and executives and our team of Smallworld consultants is the largest and most experienced in the world! 

December 5th 1988 Founders.
Can you find Ubisense CEO Richard Green?

Smallworld US launch, 1993
Can you spot Ubisense VP's, Jay Cadman and Peter Batty?

5 Steps to an Irrefutable ROI Report

Ubisense is keenly aware that time is valuable and each day that an organization operates without a tracking system means thousands of dollars lost due to operational inefficiencies. You need hard numbers to justify the spend internally but you don’t have time to tackle the research in addition to your day job. We get it and we can help you. We’ve developed a five step process that enables us to gather the information we need to deliver an irrefutable ROI report so you can get what you need.  

Here’s our five-step process:

Step 1: Understand the process or processes that require improvement. Any existing data, such as value stream maps or efficiency studies, are reviewed if available.

Step 2: Ubisense visits your site to review the process(es) that require improvement in detail. The best starting point for this review is a physical walkthrough of the process (es) typically with the person who oversees the department. During this walkthrough, a critical Q&A session occurs to understand every aspect of the process(es), including all the ways things don’t go according to plan.

Step 3: On the same day, we regroup in a conference room and walk through the process(es) again, referring to a facility map, taking copious notes on process flow and gathering as many metrics as are available.

Step 4: The final stage of the site visit is to understand the financial terms for how operational efficiency is measured, and whether any specific company goals are being pursued. From this on-site visit, we learn about the great variability and customization of each individual product that makes the customer’s manufacturing process highly complex and difficult to manage.

Step 5: Ubisense delivers an irrefutable ROI report that includes the hard numbers and timeframe specific to your business operations, and you have the proof you need to gain purchasing approval

Ubisense Volunteers for Habitat for Humanity to help the Carter Work Project

On August 8th, 2013, ten Ubisense employees volunteered their time and muscles to help build three townhouses for the Habitat for Humanity program in the Globeville neighborhood outside of Denver, CO. At the construction site they were assigned the task to measure, cut, and nail outside panels for the three homes. 

Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver has been selected to be the host city for the 2013 Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project.  The Carter Work Project includes large-scale building efforts in three locations: Oakland/San Jose, CA, Denver, CO, and New York City. During the 2013 Carter Work Project, Habitat Metro Denver will build 11 new and repair 15 existing homes in Denver's Globeville neighborhood. To learn more about the Carter Work Project and the Globeville neighborhood click here.

New Downtown Denver office!

Have you seen our new office yet? If not, it's worth stopping by for a cup of coffee.

Our new 10,000 sq ft office is located in the heart of downtown Denver. The office environment is casual, colorful, and energizing- perfect for our growing company! 

We now have 3 conference rooms with 84-inch Plasma TVs and whiteboard walls. This is our largest conference room, which seats over 20 people. 

A view of the Rockies Stadium is just one of the many benefits of this fully stocked and functioning kitchen.

Our new waiting area

Our front door proudly displays our logo.

Fun metallic bubbles create a barrier between our telework station and our dining area

Our 20 ft orange plane

Our walls are covered with fun, colorful graphics.