Location-based Automation: Leveraging Real-time Locating System Technology for Autonomous Operations

In this whitepaper, we explore the essential features of LPA software, helping you maximize the benefits of autonomous operations on your manufacturing or logistics shop floor.

Location-based Automation: Leveraging Real-time Locating System Technology for Autonomous Operations

In this whitepaper, we explore the essential features of LPA software, helping you maximize the benefits of autonomous operations on your manufacturing or logistics shop floor.

Abstract

Manufacturers, suppliers, and logistics companies are finding themselves at an interesting intersection today. Digital transformation, is no longer a trend or a hype. With more pressure from stakeholders, customers, and competitors, companies need to act fast and decidedly to kickstart their smart factory roadmap.

As the baseline data for analyzing, optimizing, and automating processes, location-based automation is the key to unlocking cost reductions, quality improvements, and speed increases in production and supply chain. But how can companies truly leverage the data captured by location technologies such as GPS, UWB, BLE or RFID? Location- based process automation (LPA) systems, a new software category, might just be the answer.

Key Findings

70%

of manufacturing organizations in the US and Europe have adopted a digital transformation (DX) strategy, according to IDC research¹

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of manufacturing organizations in the US and Europe have adopted a digital transformation (DX) strategy, according to IDC research¹

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72%

of companies regard IoT as the most central opportunity in digitalization²

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_2.

of companies regard IoT as the most central opportunity in digitalization²

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80%

of enterprise data currently have a location component, which bears tremendous potential for value-adding IoT applications.

70%

of manufacturing organizations in the US and Europe have adopted a digital transformation (DX) strategy, according to IDC research¹

‍

of manufacturing organizations in the US and Europe have adopted a digital transformation (DX) strategy, according to IDC research¹

‍

72%

of companies regard IoT as the most central opportunity in digitalization²

‍

_2.

of companies regard IoT as the most central opportunity in digitalization²

‍

_2.

80%

of enterprise data currently have a location component, which bears tremendous potential for value-adding IoT applications.

of manufacturing organizations in the US and Europe have adopted a digital transformation (DX) strategy, according to IDC research¹

‍

of manufacturing organizations in the US and Europe have adopted a digital transformation (DX) strategy, according to IDC research¹

‍

of companies regard IoT as the most central opportunity in digitalization²

‍

_2.

of companies regard IoT as the most central opportunity in digitalization²

‍

_2.

of enterprise data currently have a location component, which bears tremendous potential for value-adding IoT applications.

Location-based process automation systems enable a holistic picture of production and warehouse areas. They can be considered as ‘control towers’, and will allow the merger of various tracking technologies and data resources. This creates an easier way to automate linefeed and material handling processes.

Jan Burian

Senior Director, Head of IDC Manufacturing Insights EMEA