Bringing spatial awareness to your MES: Spatial Add-On for MES

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We are excited to announce the release of the Spatial Add-On for MES. We collaborated with ZeroKey to create five app templates which leverage ZeroKey’s Quantum RTLS 2.0 technology to bring spatial awareness to your MES.

The apps offer best practices for bringing ZeroKey’s precision tracking into Tulip apps for the following use cases:

  • Bolt Sequencing Verification
  • Loss Prevention
  • Pick and Place Verification
  • Worker Safety
  • Material Flow

To learn more about the apps, check out our blog.

To install the apps, check out the ZeroKey partner page on the library.

After you start working with the apps, let @tim.carlielle and I know what you think!

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@mellerbeck you might like this :wink:

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It did pique my interest! (Our OT guys are going heavy on zerokey, I think we are going to get some great use out of it!)

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@jmlowden I remember you had some use cases for material tracking in warehouses / distribution centers, this could def be interesting for you as well!

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Yes, very much so!

Due to prioritization I don’t see our big DC latching on to this terribly soon (it would need an upgrade LTS anyway, that’s another hurdle).

However, we are very interested in leveraging this location data in concert with customer service order data to optimize the putaway process, so that kits commonly ordered together can be putaway together, speeding up the picking process. Also for the less common add-on kits, looking for software to plan efficient routes for remaining picks.

For high priority kits (high value / low inventory / urgent demand), we discussed tagging them at inbound to have realtime location. (We would also need to remove the tags at outbound before shipping, as they are not approved for washer-disinfector or autoclave exposure.)

For lower priority kits, having the barcode scanner tagged to record the putaway location should be adequate. Same for kit replenishment inventory.

This could drive massive efficiency for our loaner kits process.

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