RFID work-in-process tracking

Know how long every part has been waiting, and where it sits.

RFID Flow tracks work in process through every stage of a repair facility or manufacturing floor. Every arrival starts a clock: the wait shows on a live board, and a part that sits too long is flagged while there is still time to act.

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Tracks

Work in process

Wait time

Per part, per stage

Coverage

Every stage

History

Every read, kept

FIG.01Every stage, timed
SCHEMATIC · ILLUSTRATIVE
RFID work-in-process tracking, end to endTagged parts move through seven stages from Receiving to Ready-to-Ship. Inspection is holding part PT-0417, whose wait has reached 2 days 6 hours and shows amber on a gauge climbing toward the 72 hour threshold. Every stage reports its reads over HTTPS to a live board readable from any browser.reads over HTTPSRCV2ReceivingR-01INSP6InspectionR-02PREP4PrepR-03WORK5Work CellR-04TEST3TestR-05QA3Final QAR-06SHIP1Ready-to-ShipR-07PT-0417held 2d 6h24h72hPT-3308in transitPT-1201read · R-05Live boardlive, from any browserPT-0417 · held 2d 6h

tagged parts enter

RCV

Receiving

R-01

2

INSP

Inspection

R-02

6

PT-0417

held 2d 6h

24h

72h

PREP

Prep

R-03

4

PT-3308 · in transit

WORK

Work Cell

R-04

5

TEST

Test

R-05

3

QA

Final QA

R-06

3

SHIP

Ready-to-Ship

R-07

1

reads over HTTPS

Live board

live, from any browser

PT-0417 · held 2d 6h

Tagged parts report themselves at every stage. Inspection has held PT-0417 for two days, and anyone with a browser can see the wait climbing.

DWELL · OK < 24H · CAUTION 24–72H · ACT ≥ 72H

§02The problem

Between stations, the floor goes dark.

01

Wait time is invisible

Nobody notices a part sitting at inspection for three days, until the promise date is already gone.

02

Parts vanish between stages

A part leaves teardown and disappears until someone walks the floor to find it. Every search is unplanned downtime.

03

Paper can’t answer “where is it?”

Travelers record the last stage someone wrote down, hours or days behind the part itself. The history dies with the paperwork.

§03How it goes in

Three steps to a visible floor

Tag your parts, record arrivals at each stage, and the board tells the truth about your floor. Coverage starts with handheld scans and grows to fixed readers at your pace.

FIG.02One part, seven stations, one threadscroll →

Held for inspection

Turned amber when its wait crossed 24 h in a stage.

PT-04172d 6h

Held for inspection

Turned amber when its wait crossed 24 h in a stage.

PT-04172d 6h

Receiving

R-01

RFID tagging

Inspection

R-02

Inspection

Prep

R-03

Prep & staging

Work Cell

R-04

Processing

Test

R-05

Bench test

Final QA

R-06

Final check

Ready-to-Ship

R-07

Released

01

Tag

Fix passive UHF tags to parts, fixtures, or containers: a one-time step, no batteries.

02

Track

Record arrivals at each stage boundary, by handheld scan or fixed reader. Every read carries a timestamp, and the wait clock runs from there.

03

See

The board shows every part, its stage, and how long it has waited, from any browser on the floor or in the front office.

§04When a part stalls

See the jam coming, and act on the moves that matter.

Inspection

8

BOTTLENECK · R-02 · Inspection

PT-3310

6d 2h

PT-0417

2d 6h

PT-7702

1d 1h

+5 more

The differentiator

Workflow automation: the board acts on what it sees.

Set rules in plain fields, and they act on the reads.

Rule WF-03 · hold-area notifyenabled
WHENpart entersQuarantine
THENemailstage lead

Alert sent · PT-0417 read into Quarantine → stage lead · Jul 3 14:02

The lead hears on the read.

§05The record, kept safe

Every scan is evidence.

Part, stage, reader, technician, timestamp: every read is a permanent event. When a customer or an auditor asks where a part has been, its full trail is one search away.

Kept safe

Access control

JWT · 5 roles · lockout on failed logins

Tenant isolation

every request scoped to your org

In transit

TLS everywhere · rate-limited APIs

Your data

exportable via API, and it leaves with you

FIG.03The board itself
PRODUCT UI · SAMPLE DATA

Inspection

8

BOTTLENECK · R-02

PT-4405

Gear assembly · WO-1149

5d 9h

PT-0417

Bearing unit · WO-1141

2d 6h

Work Cell

5

R-04

PT-9861

Gear housing · WO-1144

1d 4h

Final QA

3

R-06

PT-2087

Control module · WO-1136

55m

The shipped board. Every card is a part, and every read behind it is on the record.

§06The field

Sized for mid-sized operations

Enterprise RFID platforms assume an integration team. Barcodes assume someone remembers to scan. RFID Flow is sized for the floor in between: software from $750 a month per site, published, with hardware at cost and commissioning fixed in writing before you commit.

FeatureRFID FlowEnterprise RFIDBarcode / manual
Typical cost to stand upFrom $750/mo + hardware at cost$50K+ all-inLowest to start
PricingPublished, per siteOn requestOne-time, per device
Time to first tracked partDaysMonths1–2 weeks
Hands-free trackingYesYesNo · line-of-sight scans
Wait-time visibilityBuilt inVaries by moduleNo
Audit trail per partEvery scanVariesManual logs
Who answersThe founder, directlyVariesSelf-supported
CommitmentPilot first, expand in writingAnnual contractOne-time purchase

Enterprise-grade tracking your floor can stand up in days.

§07Objections, welcomed

The questions you’re already asking.

Metal environments need the right tag types; on-metal tags exist for exactly this. During setup we spec tags for your materials and verify every read point before you rely on the data. If a read point is weak, we move the reader and verify it again.

Yes, through a documented REST API. Push scans in, pull part history and analytics out, and connect your ERP, MES, or reporting stack. API access is part of the subscription. Connectors are scoped per customer against the documented API, in writing, before you commit.

Because a tracked floor works as one system. Antennas are tuned per location, and the board is read by everyone from the floor lead to the front office. A site price keeps it whole: add people freely, put the board on the wall, and adding tracked locations later is a written line item you can price before you commit.

That's the intended path. We start with a scoped pilot on a single line: prove the board tells the truth about that line, then expand across the floor in writing, at your pace.

Yes. Handheld scans at each stage boundary feed the same board and start the same clocks, so wait time is measured from the first day, sized by where you scan. Fixed readers add hands-free coverage where the traffic justifies them, and a work-order link through the API adds step-level timing when routings revisit a station. The board, the alerts, and the history work the same at every step.

A pilot has a clean walk-away: it runs against success criteria agreed in writing before it starts, and if they are not met the agreement ends there, with the pilot fee as the whole commitment. Either way your data is yours: export part records and scan history through the API at any time. We build to earn the expansion, and the door stays open the whole time.

The floor-facing side is a board and a search box; operator training typically takes a couple of hours. On-site commissioning stands the system up in a few days, including training.

What searching costs you

People who look for parts

12

Minutes each spends searching, per day

45 min

Loaded hourly rate

$32/hr

Sample floor · drag to your numbers

$72,000

2,250 hours a year spent walking the floor looking for parts.

12 people × 45 min × $32/hr × 250 days

How much of that a tracking system takes back depends on your floor, and its price is scoped to your floor too. A short walkthrough puts a real number against both.

See your floor in real time.

A 15-minute walkthrough in your vocabulary: repair line or production floor, your stages, your part numbers. The person who runs it is the person who wrote the software, scopes your floor, and answers when you call.