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.
What does searching cost you? Run the numbers →Tracks
Work in process
Wait time
Per part, per stage
Coverage
Every stage
History
Every read, kept
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
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.
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.
Held for inspection
Turned amber when its wait crossed 24 h in a stage.
Held for inspection
Turned amber when its wait crossed 24 h in a stage.
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.
See the jam coming, and act on the moves that matter.
Inspection
8BOTTLENECK · R-02 · Inspection
PT-3310
6d 2hPT-0417
2d 6hPT-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.
Alert sent · PT-0417 read into Quarantine → stage lead · Jul 3 14:02
The lead hears on the read.
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
Inspection
8BOTTLENECK · R-02
PT-4405
Gear assembly · WO-1149
PT-0417
Bearing unit · WO-1141
Work Cell
5R-04
PT-9861
Gear housing · WO-1144
Final QA
3R-06
PT-2087
Control module · WO-1136
The shipped board. Every card is a part, and every read behind it is on the record.
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.
| Feature | RFID Flow | Enterprise RFID | Barcode / manual |
|---|---|---|---|
| Typical cost to stand up | From $750/mo + hardware at cost | $50K+ all-in | Lowest to start |
| Pricing | Published, per site | On request | One-time, per device |
| Time to first tracked part | Days | Months | 1–2 weeks |
| Hands-free tracking | Yes | Yes | No · line-of-sight scans |
| Wait-time visibility | Built in | Varies by module | No |
| Audit trail per part | Every scan | Varies | Manual logs |
| Who answers | The founder, directly | Varies | Self-supported |
| Commitment | Pilot first, expand in writing | Annual contract | One-time purchase |
Enterprise-grade tracking your floor can stand up in days.
The questions you’re already asking.
Will tags read reliably around metal?
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.
Can it talk to our ERP or MES?
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.
Why is the software priced per site?
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.
Can we start small?
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.
Can we start with handheld scanners?
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.
What if it doesn't work for our floor?
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.
How long until the team actually uses it?
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.