Exact location determination in real time and movement optimization
Exact location determination in real time and movement optimization
Automotive
Mercedes Benz Türk A.S.
Aksaray Turkey
Customer needed
To optimize a vehicle management to have a real-time information about the precise location of the busses
To reduce long search times and travel distances on the 360 000 m2 factory site
To eliminate errors in manually created vehicle documentation
High degree of system flexibility adapted to individual customer requirements and environments
SIMATIC
RTLS Locating Systems using wireless technology
SIMATIC RTLS Gateways
SIMATIC RTLS Transponders
SIMATIC RTLS Locating Manager as a locating server
software
The
software calculates the real-time position of the buses and so that a precise
location determination for the parking spaces is possible. The real-time
location is visualized by software of Mercedes-Benz Türk and thanks to the
search function individual vehicles can be tracked down.
„With the SIMATIC RTLS solution we have real-time overview of all
vehicles at all times.”
Abdullah Aydin, Senior Solution Architect of IT for Bus Production and
Research Development Bus/Truck, Mercedes-Benz Türk
Reduction in searches and travel distances,
optimized vehicle management
Improvement in reaction times and increase in
flexibility of the production process
Reduction in mistakes and manual documentation
Optimization of material flow, fleet movements,
and vehicle tracking
Increase in efficiency, productivity, and
resource availability
