Successful rollout of ATLAS Track&Trace solution at Roba Metals

The Dutch company Roba Metals supplies steel, stainless steel, aluminium and other non-ferrous semi-finished products to customers all over the world. In order to localise the correct pallets for dispatch to a customer and to pick them up in the warehouses, Roba Metals worked with a traditional barcode scanner and an Excel file. As more and more storage space is built, and the pallet locations were not always registered, the search times rose sharply. This while the delivery times are becoming increasingly short.

Therefore, Roba Metals wanted to invest a real-time detection and localisation system, with a link to the WMS. 

Aucxis implemented the RFID Forklift solution, providing an accurate and up-to-date overview of the internal logistic movements through automatic location and load control. The pallets were equipped with RFID tags, which are read by the detection equipment on the bridge cranes and forklifts. 

Gert Machon, Production Manager at Roba Metals: “Aucxis’ down-to-earth approach convinced us to work together.”