IKS Smart Factory

Connecting Users, Processes, Enterprise Systems, and Smart Technology

How digitized is your company? Are your digital environments fully interconnected?

Inspired by our customers, we’ve created a solution that seamlessly connects digital processes into a unified environment—accessible online, anywhere in the world.

Say goodbye to typing errors, paperwork, delays, and wasted resources.

SMART devices for end-users

Pick-by/to-light

Wireless smart buttons enable efficient picking and put-away of materials. These buttons guide users to the correct location with an illuminated LED diode and confirm transactions with a simple press. Supported transactions include picking from a location, put-away to a location, and confirmations for “full” and “empty” statuses.

E-LABELs

Pick-by-light electronic shelf labels feature up to 7-color displays and LED lights, available in sizes ranging from 4 to 30 cm. Equipped with two action buttons, these labels operate within a temperature range of -25°C to +40°C.

Larger E-Ink displays or full-color E-paper screens (33 to 121 cm) are versatile for displaying working instructions, tool maintenance or service statuses, and other operational updates.

Smart Glasses

Smart glasses simplify navigation within warehouses and accelerate material picking and put-away processes. The integrated display provides essential information to guide users efficiently, ensuring accurate selection of goods and quantities while optimizing movement within the workspace.

Smart Glove

Smart gloves enhance scanning capabilities while keeping the user’s hands free. Key information is displayed directly on the glove, which connects to a computer via Bluetooth. User access is managed through IKS, enabling seamless transactions, such as scanning aligned with IKS system protocols.

SSW sensors

SSW wireless sensors and buttons facilitate requests for material replenishment and track consumption in flow racks or open production floors. These sensors also enable AGV transport transactions, such as delivering full pallets or removing empty ones. Supported transactions include “delivered” and “consumed” statuses.

Weight and distance

Wireless smart sensors measure material weight and distances, with optional extensions to monitor temperature, vibrations, and location tracking. Ideal for materials in original packaging with high-consumption demands, such as liquids in barrels or coils of sealing materials, these sensors provide real-time updates for inventory management. Transactions include tracking actual quantities and consumptions.

Digitization of Transport

Global Tracking of Parcel or Equipment

Gain complete visibility of shipments, IKS boxes, or other assets in global motion. Utilizing state-of-the-art SONY Visilion trackers, this technology monitors location, temperature, humidity, light exposure, shocks, and tilts. It also detects unauthorized handling and package/container openings, ensuring full climate and security monitoring. The trackers are reusable, USB-C rechargeable, and feature IP67-rated durability for reliable performance.

External Transport – Holistic Control

Organize external transports paperlessly and in real time. Once goods are ready for dispatch, transport requests are automatically released, allowing you to monitor the transport status, including GPS tracking, directly in IKS.
Our solution optimizes transport costs, reduces lead times, and enables route and process combinations. For example, you can deliver the exact number of returnable packaging to suppliers and return with the same number of full packages, or schedule periodic milk-run transport to and from multiple addresses. Get inspired by Ringil’s innovative approach to transport logistics.

Internal AGV Transport – One-Way Road

Enable fully automated material transfers between robotic workstations and/or smart locations using AGV (automatically guided vehicles). The 4IGV solution supports one-way transport from point A to point B, including height-specific destinations. In IKS, AGVs and “smart transactions” are synchronized online as move orders, with real-time status updates visualized for users.

Internal AGV Transport – “Milk-Run” Trains

Achieve fully automated material delivery to multiple consecutive locations in your warehouse or production area. We also support semi-automatic milk-run trains, where operators unload boxes and confirm departures to the next delivery point in the sequence.
Although we’ve implemented the milk-run transport process, we are seeking a reliable partner to integrate an AGV-based milk-run train solution. Let’s collaborate to revolutionize internal transport logistics.

Searching for AGV milk-run partner

External kanbans visualisation

Do you have multiple kanban suppliers and you want to simplify the management. IKS Smart Factory can also adopt, standardise and visualize / clone external Kanban tools as well as their complete automated management to the original kanban providers.

The end of Kanban Excel, Access, and e-mails.

Systems - ERP / MRP / MES / WMS

The integrated Kanban system (IKS) is a professional software system for supporting holistic supply chain processes and the pull principle. IKS does not replace any kind of basic ERP/MRP business systems. But we can connect external/internal key data and transactions of smart devices, B2B, EDI/MES/WMS, which are fully paperless, fast, and correctly recorded in ERP/MRP system.

IKS becomes the only one direct communication bridge into ERP from all external digital technologies, which also makes easy regular upgrades of your ERP system.

Logistic flow Simulation & Digital Twin

SDZ GmbH and IKS e-kanban a 3D virtual models of are based on IKS Simulator calculation which enables to see future impact on logistic processes results. In IKS Simulator you can compare the current and future process in 3D digital simulated animation. As a high-tech bonus you can integrate online IKS e-kanban data with this 3D logistic animations and mirror the real time situation into your Digital Twin

Users and processes

In the IKS Smart Factory we have standardised management of all smart technologies in a secured IKS administrator environment. The end-user of logistic process has also great visibility on smart devices performances and functionality.

This standardised environment is significantly minimizing technical support required for managing of digital technologies. Accelerates the detection of potential problems and enables immediate correction.