manufacturing
Eliminating scanner dropouts at a 1.4M sq ft stamping plant
Tier-1 automotive supplier
32%
scanner re-scan rate before
<1%
scanner re-scan rate after
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Plant floors are some of the most RF-hostile environments we work in — and most of the wireless infrastructure on them was never designed for the work happening on them today.
The problem we see
- Steel structures, metal-clad lines, and forklift traffic create attenuation and multipath that defeat consumer Wi-Fi assumptions.
- Production has changed faster than the network. Scanners, AGVs, machine vision, and torque tooling were added on top of a network designed for an office floor.
- Downtime is expensive enough that nobody wants to touch the network — so the network only gets touched when something fails, badly.
How we approach it
- We start by reading help-desk tickets and walking the floor with operations, not by quoting an OEM data sheet.
- We design for the hardest client on the floor — the slowest, oldest, most demanding device — and let everything else benefit.
- Where Private LTE or 5G is the right answer (heavy mobility, dense devices, latency targets) we say so. Where Wi-Fi 6E remains right, we say that too.
Representative outcomes
32% → <1%
scanner re-scan rate (representative)
Zero
controlled production interruption during cutover
4–6 mo
typical engagement length end-to-end
Next step
Have a coverage problem you can describe — but not yet solve?
Request a wireless assessment. An engineer (not a sales rep) will walk through what you're seeing and propose what we'd actually do.