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Digitalisation & Automation

Each technology answers a different question at a different cost. NEXWRKS starts with what needs to be known, moved or automated, then selects the tracking, data, integration and automation that fit, independent of any one vendor.

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Typical starting points

Requirements in this area often sound like this. Most also involve the other areas listed.

What this area covers

Tracking, data and automation that connect physical operations to the systems that run them, chosen for the requirement rather than one technology.

Tracking and asset intelligence

  • QR traceability
  • RFID
  • BLE
  • GPS and cellular tracking
  • Parent-child tracking models
  • Embedded identification
  • Loss reduction and utilisation monitoring
  • Location visibility

Vision and operational data

  • Computer vision
  • Digital shelf and retail intelligence
  • Shelf recognition, planogram, price and promotion compliance
  • Out-of-stock detection
  • Workflow digitisation and execution tools
  • Data visibility and operational reporting

Software and system integration

  • Software and API integration
  • ERP integration
  • WMS and RCS integration
  • SFA integration

Intralogistics and automation

  • Material-flow optimisation
  • Warehouse process improvement
  • Warehouse and internal-logistics automation
  • Conveyors
  • AMRs
  • Robotics
  • Automated transport and picking support
  • Automation-compatible packaging and load carriers
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Acts on Assets, Data, Technology

Asset Intelligence & Traceability

Technology selected according to the application.

Each tracking technology answers a different question at a different cost. The work starts with what needs to be known (where, how often, at what level of detail) and the technology follows from that. NEXWRKS is not tied to any one tracking technology.

What do you need to know?
  • QR (fits this question)Printed or moulded code, read when scanned. Lowest cost per asset; needs a person or camera at the point of reading.
  • RFID (fits this question)Passive tags read in bulk at gates or with handhelds, without line of sight.
  • BLEBattery-powered beacons, located by gateways or phones within a site.
  • GPSOutdoor position. Needs power and a way to report.
  • CellularReports position and status over mobile networks, without local infrastructure.
  • Embedded ID (fits this question)Identification moulded or integrated into the asset at manufacture.
  • Parent-childTrack the carrier, identify what it carries. Fewer active devices for the same visibility.
Indicative. The final choice depends on volumes, cost per asset, environment and the systems already in place.

Technologies

  • QR
  • RFID
  • BLE
  • GPS
  • Cellular
  • Embedded identification
  • Parent-child tracking models

Applications

  • Crates, pallets and containers
  • Equipment
  • Reusable assets
  • Material flow
  • Return logistics
  • Loss reduction
  • Utilisation monitoring
  • Location visibility
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Acts on Products, Data, Technology, Operations

Operational Digitalisation & Integration

Connecting physical operations with digital intelligence.

What happens on a shelf, at a dock or along a route is often invisible to the systems that plan it. Computer vision, digital execution tools and integration with ERP, WMS and SFA systems close that gap, when they are fitted to how the operation really runs.

  1. 01Physical operation
  2. 02Capture
  3. 03Recognise
  4. 04Verify
  5. 05Act
  6. 06Report
From the physical operation to an operational decision

Solutions

  • Computer vision
  • Shelf recognition
  • Planogram compliance
  • Price verification
  • Out-of-stock detection
  • Promotion compliance
  • Workflow digitisation
  • ERP / WMS / SFA integration
  • Data visibility
  • Operational reporting
  • Digital execution tools

The physical starting point

  • What is actually on the shelf
  • Whether the price and promotion are right
  • What the field team did, and when
  • What the systems believe versus what is there
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Acts on Material Flow, Technology, Operations

Material Flow, Intralogistics & Automation

Automate where it creates value, not simply because automation exists.

Before a robot is specified, the flow has to be understood: volumes, routes, handling units, peaks and exceptions. Sometimes the answer is AMRs or automated transport. Sometimes it is a better layout, or a different container.

Schematic site plan with inbound docks, storage, picking and dispatch zones connected by a transport routeInboundStoragePickingDispatch
Flow first: routes, volumes and handling units, before the equipment is chosen

Solutions

  • Material-flow optimisation
  • Warehouse process improvement
  • Conveyors
  • AMRs
  • Robotics
  • Automated transport
  • Internal logistics
  • Picking support
  • Warehouse automation
  • ERP / WMS / RCS integration

What gets looked at first

  • Volumes, peaks and exceptions
  • Routes and travel distances
  • Handling units and containers
  • Where people add value and where they only walk

Other solution areas

What needs to work better?

Product, packaging, process, site or fleet. Tell us what is happening today and what needs to improve.

Submit an RFQ / Project Requirement

You do not need to know which product, supplier or technology you need. You need to know what needs to work better. NEXWRKS works out the rest.

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