Product Traceability – new

Traceability - and the continued development of our capabilities - remains a key focus for InfraBuild

Billet marking

Reducing the amount of human intervention required in the billet marking process improves the safety of the process, while also creating productivity efficiencies by removing manual processes.

RFID

When it comes to traceability, data is key.

Data provides our own teams and our customers with the visibility they need to make informed business decisions, and in the case of our customers, informed purchasing decisions with full knowledge of the product's journey across the supply chain.

We have implemented a number of initiatives as part of our efforts to provide customers with the most comprehensive traceability data possible.

This innovation will enable productivity and efficiency gainsto be realised by dramatically streamlining interaction with data on product tags. The first phase of this project will deliver automation of product leaving the facility with truck manifests automatically verified prior to leaving the site, enhancing stock and data accuracy and real time dispatch notification to customers.

Such functionality is common in other industries such as food delivery and eCommerce, however this will be the first time our own customers have been able to track their deliveries from the mill to site.

Robotics

The targeted introduction of robotics into the manufacturing process demonstrates how we are successfully creating a collaborative work environment within our workforce. In this environment, robots take on repetitive tasks, streamlining production workflow and eliminating injury risks for our employees. An additional benefit is their ability to perform a highly repetitive task accurately on all occasions.

Fundamental to our efforts to improve data traceability is our investment in a robot tagging machine at the SSM.

While the initiative provides productivity and safety benefits to the business, ultimately it is our customers who benefit through enhanced accuracy in data traceability, which enhances confidence in product compliance, order delivery accuracy and accurate sustainability credentials.