17/06/2026
Your most expensive technicians spend hours every week looking for things. Not assembling. Not testing. Walking the floor, checking racks, calling colleagues to find a WIP carrier, a torque tool, a calibration gauge.
In a plant with high labor costs, that's not overhead. It's one of the most expensive forms of waste you have, and it's almost invisible because it never shows up as a line item.
The reason it happens: the ERP says one thing, the floor says another. So people stop trusting the system and start walking.
RTLS gives every asset a live position on a digital map. The search disappears. The time goes back into the work that actually moves orders. This is one of 10 ways RTLS changes the floor. The full breakdown is in our RTLS Playbook.
Link in the comments.