Two meters, or not two meters: that is the question
I wonder if you’ve thought about why we are being advised to stay two meters (or six feet) away from other people to avoid Coronavirus transmission? That number used to be half the distance by the way, only changing fairly recently. To understand it, we have to go back to post-World War II England, and to a hospital not terribly far south of Stonehenge. Harvard Hospital was for decades the
Don’t stand so close: contact tracing with RTLS
I’m pretty certain when Sting penned those lyrics back in 1980 he wasn’t imagining a manufacturing plant in 2020. Yet, here we are needing to rethink the way we work to ensure adequate social distancing to keep operating safely. Real-Time Location Systems (RTLS) that track the interaction of people certainly has a role to play. With a long history of successfully tracking the location and movement of things, we take this stuff pretty
COVID-19 (coronavirus): A message from our CEO
Dear Customers, Given that the World Health Organisation recently classified COVID-19 as a pandemic, we have prepared the below information to help answer any questions you may have concerning our ability to continue to meet your business needs as they pertain to our products and services. Ubisense remains committed to keeping its employees safe and its customers supported. We have established a cross-functional COVID-19 response team within senior management to continually assess
On-Demand Webinar – Leveraging Industry 4.0 to Increase Productivity
On-Demand Webinar Leveraging Industry 4.0 to Increase Productivity Hidden process waste is the enemy of productivity: we plan in great detail but how can we be sure that complex tasks are staying on schedule? By applying Industry 4.0 strategies it’s possible to create a real-time digital twin of process flow in order to create the visibility required to optimize complex process. However, when manual tasks are involved simply applying IoT
Improving Business Efficiency in an Aerospace MRO Environment
INTRODUCTION In this series of Blogs, I explain how using digital process twins can revolutionize MRO efficiency. I discuss how the concept of the Digital Process Twin, having been perfected in assembly plants across aerospace and automotive manufacturing, is now being applied to MRO operations. The Internet of Things is a much-discussed topic, but people aren’t things, and nobody sells “smart, connected wing stands” so how do IoT concepts apply to MRO
Aircraft Heavy Maintenance – Work Order Management
INTRODUCTION Ubisense have been providing location solutions to many customers over the last 17 years. These solutions have been delivered with a mixture of hardware and software. The hardware - Dimension4™ - is Ultra Wide Band (UWB) and is the most accurate industrialised real time location solution (RTLS) available. Ubisense are now supporting many hundreds of thousands of tags and sensors deployed across many markets. The software - SmartSpace® - takes the data from any location solution, whether UWB, RFID, bluetooth, barcode,