SOLUTIONS

End-of-Line / Finishing

Visibility and process transparency of operations at the end of assembly lines, including optimized routing of WIP and parts shortage management.

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Avoid symptoms of inefficient end-of-line processes

  • Find lost and forgotten products and avoid excessive search time
  • Make better use of limited space and prevent product build-up
  • Avoid bottlenecks and skipped or unnecessary steps
  • Remove paper-based systems

Digitize your processes

  • Track the real-time position and movement of every product in both indoor and outdoor spaces.
  • Utilize real-time status and management with interactive maps of your environment.
  • Receive real-time notifications of process exceptions and deviations.
  • Access your data from any browser-enabled device.

Track WIP through complex environments

Using specialized tags and sensors, organizations can pinpoint products as they leave the assembly line and move through highly variable, non-linear processes. Enable quality, inspection, and operations teams to reduce wasted search time and increase throughput to meet delivery schedules.

Use customized digital displays to gain complete oversight of every stage of your process:

  • Pinpoint WIP according to status
  • Automate alerts when products leave defined zones
  • Send updated instructions directly to workstations
  • Analyze historical data and utilize predictive analytics
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Aston Martin

Rising customer expectations and increasingly complex configurations are driving automotive manufacturers to constantly improve operations.

Aston Martin, world renown for performance and precision engineering, turned to Ubisense in order to achieve complete, automated and adaptable monitoring of their offline production process.

At the Aston Martin plants in Gaydon, England, and St Athan, Wales, the Ubisense Real-Time Location System (RTLS) enhances control of rigorous offline finishing processes. From inspection through to repair and rework, analysis and optimization of each process step ensures production efficiency is maintained at all times.

Ubisense tags are attached to each car as they begin the testing and finishing stages. From that moment on, Ubisense allows production engineers to monitor each Aston Martin in real-time as it progresses through the facility, with alerts if a car deviates from a normal or planned progression.

Previously out-of-date and error-prone paper and spreadsheet-based reporting was replaced with automated, up-to-date insights. Offline teams are guided to prioritize vehicles and tasks to maximise resource utilization and reliably meet delivery schedules.

Digitize Test & Inspection

Processes are automatically monitored for:

  • Dwell time exceptions
  • Ageing vehicles
  • Over-occupancy
  • Process overuse
  • Prohibited zones
  • Missed step exceptions
  • Non-mover notifications
  • Marshalling conformance

SmartSpace® End-of-Line Functionality

Ultra-Wideband Dimension4™ Sensors

  • High-performance ultra-wideband (UWB) sensors to determine the accurate location of tags attached to vehicles.
  • Directional (side mounted) or Omnidirectional (ceiling mounted) sensor types available to minimize sensor infrastructure required, maximize coverage, and adapt to available mounting positions available.
  • Rugged and robust sensor mounting bracket
  • Power over Ethernet (PoE) with optional Timing Distribution Unit (TDU) for time synchronization of up to 20 sensors.

UWB Dimension4™ Industrial Tags

  • Rugged location tags for use in industrial settings
  • Multiple mounting options for vehicles including sucker, magnetic or industrial Velcro®
  • Very low power consumption and long battery life (over 10 years)
  • Manual tag association via easy-to-use web form, barcode scan, or CSV import, or automated by configured association zones
  • Optional integrated GPS for tracking seamlessly across indoor and outdoor areas, reducing infrastructure requirements

SmartSpace® Software

  • Digital browser-based map of the facility imported via drawing or CAD file.
  • Simple import/scale/orient functions for custom icons and photos of vehicles to represent model, colour, priority, destination country, process or quality issue.
  • Communicates with existing systems (MES, ERP) via TCP/IP, .NET and RESTful APIs.
  • Connects to any type of location system data (UWB, BLE, WiFi, GPS, RFID, LPWA).
  • Preconfigured alerts, searches, and reports.
  • Standard and customizable reports for process or shift inventory, vehicle location over time and space utilization.

Ubisense Success Story

Aston Martin, world-renowned for performance and precision engineering, turned to Ubisense in order to achieve complete, automated and adaptable monitoring of their offline production process. 

At the Aston Martin plants in Gaydon and St Athan, UK, Ubisense’s SmartSpace enhances control of rigorous offline finishing processes. From inspection through to repair and rework, analysis and optimization of each process step ensures production efficiency is maintained at all times. 

Why Ubisense

Assembly processes are often fixed and mechanically controlled, making it difficult to rapidly react to problems or build highly variable products on the same physical line.

Ubisense is the industry leader in applying location solutions to fast-moving, complex assembly lines. Our Dimension4™ sensors have been perfected to operate reliably, 24/7 for decades in the world’s most demanding factories.

  • 6 sigma reliability for precise location data
  • Proven scalability to 1000’s of sensors updating in real-time
  • IP69K rated industrial grade tags with long battery lifetimes up to 15 years
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