RFID & IoT in Action: Smart Logistics, Industry & Healthcare

How global and local real-time location tracking increases transparency across industrial processes and creates new opportunities for automation.

How do you manage 70,000 items in a busy industrial warehouse without losing track of inventory or wasting valuable time searching for misplaced goods?

In this real-world success story, Kyösti Melametsä presents how Outokumpu transformed its warehouse operations with an RFID-based system from Turck Vilant Systems. With thousands of components in stock and numerous daily movements, the company needed a reliable way to eliminate missing items, prevent unreported transfers, and improve warehouse efficiency.

Discover how RFID automatically identifies items, records their movements, and guides forklift operators to the correct storage locations during shelving and picking. The system provides up-to-date information on inventory levels and item locations, reducing manual work and time-consuming searches.

Kyösti will take you through the practical implementation, from incoming goods and automated shelving to order picking and inventory management, demonstrating how RFID connects physical warehouse operations with digital systems to improve accuracy, transparency, and productivity.

Learn how trusted employee identities and asset identification help manufacturers improve visibility, strengthen security, and increase operational efficiency

The key takeaways/insights:

• Secure employee authentication helps ensure only authorized people access critical machines, systems, and operations

• Asset identification improves visibility into tools, equipment, and materials

• Traceability depends on capturing who, what, when, and where across manufacturing processes

• Greater visibility enables faster decisions, stronger security, and more efficient operations

Where are medical devices, beds or wheelchairs? What is still in stock, and what is about to expire? RFID-based inventory systems and smart shelves provide real-time visibility into assets and consumables, reducing search times, administrative effort and unnecessary inventory.

Daniel Büth of FEIG ELECTRONIC shows how RFID is evolving from a tracking tool into the foundation for more efficient, safer and increasingly automated hospital processes.

From asset tracking to cold chain compliance – enabling real-time decisions and end-to-end transparency. Explore how IoT, edge and cloud enable real-time supply chain visibility, from asset tracking to cold chain monitoring, ensuring compliance, faster response and data-driven optimization.