Fuel costs, the time of drivers and the number of lift trucks needed, all of these can be improved when drivers use the most optimum route. By having complete and exact data at hand, the optimum and the most effective routes can be found for the drivers.

Through looking for inactive vehicles, better planning of the utilization of the warehouse by knowing each item’s exact location and seeing who is doing which task in real-time – all of these help to achieve higher utilization and a reduction in costs

In the US alone, every year, forklift accidents account for 85 deaths and 34,900 serious injuries. At the same time, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) estimates that about 70% of forklift accidents could be prevented.

Using employee location tracking to know where people are moving within the facility as well knowing in real-time and with 30 cm accuracy where each forklift is means that the forklift can be automatically slowed down when approaching a cross road or being close to an employee or another forklift. This represent an industry-proven forklift anti-collision system to prevent forklift-to-forklift and forklift-to-employee collisions.

Collapsing pallet racks, stored objects and whole shelves is among the top five most common warehouse accidents. These are often caused by a previous hit by a forklift when the structure or object didn’t fall immediately but was left unstable and prone to collapsing.

The InSitu UWB tags attached to forklifts not only report the exact real-time position but can also additionally measure and report other data, including shocks. Once a shock has been reported, the maintenance team receives its exact position, time and strength, and can immediately react by investigating and fixing the affected area to help prevent injury and material damage.

In addition to that there are no longer any unrecorded damages as the exact time and location of each collision is known.

Using virtual reality for training forklift drivers speeds up their training, saves money and creates a risk-free environment – because in a virtual environment, you can make mistakes that have no financial implications and do not cause any injuries. However, any virtual reality built-in model of traffic within a warehouse gets outdated at the moment of its release.

Only an indoor-tracking-enabled digital twin replaces the model with a real 1-to-1 environment with all the traffic and situations as they are really happening, at the same moment, within the actual facility. This is due to the fact that any motion of objects and persons is being tracked and projected in the VR in real-time. Various unknown circumstances that only come when you experience them in real life are finally available in a risk-free and improved training environment.