Manufacturing
WIP you cannot see, schedules that slip, and maintenance that happens after the breakdown.
What we actually
see on site
A garment floor can run at ninety percent efficiency on paper and still miss the ship date, because the bottleneck moved on Tuesday and nobody found out until Friday. Visibility is the whole problem: not more reporting, but knowing where work actually is while there is still time to act on it.
The apparel clusters in Gazipur and Savar dominate, with pharma maturing and food processing expanding behind them.
Traceability, WIP visibility and maintenance reliability come up in nearly every conversation — usually in that order, and usually triggered by a buyer audit rather than an internal decision.
Compliance pressure from international buyers is doing more to move budget than efficiency arguments are.
Who signs
- Plant Manager, who owns the floor
- Industrial Engineering, who owns the line balance
- Quality and QA, who own the audit
- IT and OT leads, who have to agree with each other
- CFO for the ROI sign-off
What gets in the way
- Metal and liquid wreck naive RF designs — on-metal tags and a real site survey are not optional here
- MES and ERP integration complexity, often against systems nobody has documented
- IT and OT rarely report to the same person, and the project stalls in that gap
- Shopfloor SOP compliance: a reader nobody walks past is a reader that reads nothing
The read points
Every device reports independently to one platform. Nothing depends on the device next to it, which is why a site can start with one read point and add the rest later.
- Raw storeLot tags + handheld
- CuttingBundle commissioning
- Sewing lineStation readers
- QC stationVerify read
- MachinesOn-metal asset tags
- Finished goodsCarton portal
- DispatchDock portal
- All report to the RATS Core RFID Platform
What it costs
today
Hidden bottlenecks, schedule slippage, and maintenance that is reactive because usage data does not exist.
- WIP dwell time
- 15–25% lower
- Schedule adherence
- +10–20 pts
- Unplanned downtime
- 15–30% lowerwith phased sensors
- Lot traceability
- >95% linked
5 modules for manufacturing
Adopt one, or several. They share a tag estate, a device layer and one set of integrations.
- 01
Maintenance Schedule Automation
Preventive maintenance triggered by actual running hours instead of a date in a spreadsheet.
Read more - 02
Production Planning Optimisation
Live WIP status at every station, so the planner sees the bottleneck while it still matters.
Read more - 03
WIP Tracking & Assembly Line Quality Control
Verify the right part reached the right station before the operation happens, not after.
Read more - 04
Batch & Lot Tracking for Quality Control
Trace any finished unit back to its raw material lots, and any lot forward to every unit it touched.
Read more - 05
ERP Integration & Automated Material Handling
RFID events drive ERP stock moves and vehicle routing, so the system reflects the floor without anyone typing.
Read more
Built for
here
What changes when this is deployed in Bangladesh rather than lifted from a vendor datasheet written somewhere else.
- 01On-metal tags specified for jigs, moulds and machine assets
- 02Ruggedised readers rated for lint, heat and vibration
- 03Designs that survive factory LAN and Wi-Fi reality, with edge buffering
- 04Local service cover for preventive maintenance on the readers themselves
Software needs
something to read
Every module here runs on equipment we already supply, install and service across Bangladesh. The platform is the layer above it, not a replacement for it.
- 03
RFID Inventory
Tags, labels and readers that turn stock-takes into real-time accuracy.
- 02
Security Tags & Labels
Hard tags, soft labels and pins for apparel, cosmetics and high-value goods.
- 06
Burglar Alarms & Metal Detectors
After-hours intrusion protection and entrance screening.
- Sector
Textiles & Garments
Factory-floor control, source tagging and finished-goods accuracy.
Other industries
- 8 modules
Retail & E-commerce
Shrink, return abuse and stock that the system says is there. Eight modules on one platform.
- 5 modules
Healthcare & Pharma
Medication safety, patient identification and counterfeit control — deployed ward by ward.
- 5 modules
Education
Annual audits that take weeks, assets that quietly walk, and a library still stamping cards.
- 2 modules
Logistics
Pallets, containers and yard moves — where loss is measured in whole units.
- 3 modules
Hospitality
Linen that disappears, amenities used by people who did not pay, assets nobody logs.
Let's design theright system foryour floor
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- Emailservice@ratsbd.com
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