Container and Asset Tracking

Know where your assets are in real time, count them, and record their status and attributes

The Panasonic Logiscend Container and Asset Tracking Application ensures you know where assets are at any point in the process.

Knowing what components or assets you have — and where they are — is a fundamental necessity in every factory. The Container and Asset Tracking Application of the Panasonic Logiscend System allows you to track the location of assets, count them, and record their status and attributes.

The Logiscend Difference

What makes Logiscend different than other Asset Tracking applications? It’s simple — our Container and Asset Tracking Application allows you to not only track your assets, but also provides you with the reporting and documentation you require to maintain your assets — as well as their records — to ensure compliance. Containers are the most effective way to transport materials through a manufacturing environment and will be the key to achieving Smart Materials — a core tenet of Industry 4.0, the IoT initiative for manufacturing. Logiscend breaks new ground with their “smart container” technology:

Visual tags provide visual instruction for individual containers
Hands-free, simple communication between “smart containers” and humans ensures higher quality and reduces errors.

Customize and configure

Fully configurable location and asset attributes
- Nested parent-child relationships
Easily adapted to your branding colors/schemes
Easily set user roles and access
Data can be segmented based on group/department to assure secure data access
Ability for users to create, edit and delete jobs with user defined attributes to perform a task. Users can define start/end timestamps, priority, state (ready, not ready, hold, complete). An audit log keeps track of all the changes to the job.

Customize reports and UI

Export data to .xls to sort
Utilize formatted reports such as assets by location or assets moved from one location to another
Configure maps and geo-fenced locations to enable customized monitoring of assets and manufacturing workflows
Dashboards provide location, delivery data and alerts to analyze process performance in real-time:
- Identify bottlenecks to improve throughput
- Balance processes and eliminate waste (Muda)
- Connect easily to existing ERP/MES/WMS systems

Mobility

Commission and associate RFID & BLE tags
Location ID
Inventory workflow
RFID locator function
Full visibility and control of individual containers as they move through the process enables reallocation or re-direction as bottlenecks occur:
- Alerts operator when container has arrived at wrong location
- Counts empty containers and allocates to process stations in real time
Self-directed or “smart containers” are location aware to provide real-time, accurate operator instruction based on each process step or work zone location:
- Little to no training or retraining is required — visual display tags tell operators exactly what to do
- A simple button push by operators begins a new job or verifies process completion

Paper-based or other manual processes are highly error-prone and inefficient when it comes to locating your containers and ensuring they arrive at the correct destination with the proper process step.

The Panasonic Logiscend Smart Container Application automatically tracks, traces and logs containers — and any associated contents — as they move through your assembly process. Whether it’s finding an empty container to begin a job, delivering parts or completing a tool calibration, the Logiscend Container and Asset Tracking Application ensures you know where all your materials are at any time during the process.

Planning

Proper site planning and preparation is critical to large-scale equipment installation. From preliminary designs, to complete implementation specifications and solution testing, the Panasonic Logiscend Professional Service Group is ready to support your efforts. We will consult with you to understand your workflow, then design the right hardware and software solution for your facility. We can help you achieve your strategic objectives and assist in configuring a material flow management solution that meets your goals.