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Container tracking and batch traceability for drums, IBCs and hazardous goods

In chemicals and pharma, a single container carries more than its material value: batch, history and whereabouts have to stay traceable – across filling, storage, transport and cleaning. Bluetooth tags on the container and bulk capture at the handover points keep that chain complete without anyone scanning item by item. For the legs between sites, worldwide positioning over 4G LTE is added.

Metal drums on a production conveyor

What circulates

  • Drums and canisters

    Reusable containers shuttling between filling, customer and cleaning.

  • IBC containers

    High-value bulk containers whose whereabouts get lost over long journeys.

  • Hazardous goods containers

    Containers whose location and condition have to stay documented.

  • Pallets and mesh boxes

    Load carriers for raw materials and finished goods in pool cycles.

Smart Circle

Smart Circle graphic (German labels): the loop of a container from assignment through filling, booking into packaging and logistics, bulk capture at goods-in and goods-out, Kanban store and inventory management, through to inspection, release in the system, cleaning and refill

What it delivers

  • Batch and container stay linkedWhich batch was in which container is still on record months later.
  • Accurate stock in drum storageStock figures are current at all times instead of counted once a year.
  • Less searching, less shrinkageMissing containers show up immediately – not when they are needed.
  • Evidence at the push of a buttonA container's journey is documented and can be shown as one coherent record.

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