Active Pallet Management presentation>RFTRAQ have recently completed a successful real world Asset Control Solution trial for Pall-Ex
A wide variety of returnable transport items (RTIs) ranging from 40ft trailers to tote boxes are notorious for getting lost in the supply chain and their management can become a time-consuming and costly business, especially when they are in the wrong place at the wrong
time. The classic example is when a manufacturing manager screams at the logistics team to move heaven and earth – ‘Whatever it takes and damn the cost!’ – to get the materials in and/or the products out, so that
production can continue uninterrupted. However, the results of two recent pilot projects undertaken by Pall-Ex, the UK-based pallet network
operator, provide strong evidence that solutions are now available that provide real-world benefits with a rapid return on investment (ROI).
Pall-Ex wanted to investigate whether it was possible to track automatically, the location and movements of a pool of plastic pallets as they moved around its network. They also wanted to see if it was possible to accurately track the movement and effieciency of a much larger RTI - it's trailers. To conduct the pilots, Pall-Ex contacted the Guildford-based company RFTRAQ, which specialises in the monitoring of RTIs using its patented ultra-long-range Active RFID tags and readers.
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"Both RF Pallet and Trailer tracking trials have not only successfully proven the real world application for RFTRAQ’s technologies and expertise but also shown how quickly this technology can deliver asset control."
Sean Sherwin-Smith, Director of IT, Pall-Ex