OUR WORK
While FLEX Digital is a relatively young company, many well-known organisations, across various industries, have already placed their trust in us to help them maximise the return on their operational assets. As a result, they have experienced significant improvements in their operational efficiencies. This can be seen by the sample of satisfied customers below.
Pace Car Rentals
PACE car rental had a major challenge managing the 6,000+ keys for their fleet of vehicles. They were struggling to perform quick and accurate stock takes, locating keys, as well as controlling and tracking the access to these keys. FLEX Digital was entrusted to provide a smaRTE Key Room solution that combined RFID technology with our AI-driven access control solution. The results were phenomenal. Stock takes reduced from 3 days once per month, to 3 minutes daily and the accuracy improved from approximately 60% to 99%. Finding specific keys reduced from days to minutes and the management of who took what keys at what times became far more accurate, which enabled the leadership team to hold staff more accountable. Also, PACE is now able to bill their clients more accurately when there is a call-out for spare keys, as this is now much more auditable.
INDUSTRY
Automotive
smaRTE SOLUTIONS
smaRTE Keys
smaRTE Access
JB Group
JB Group is a fashion and sport retail operation with multiple warehouses and retail stores across Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa. Our smaRTE cloud software is seamlessly integrated with their ERP software, NetSuite. The business is in an aggressive growth phase. They are using RFID to perform weekly stock takes and achieve 99%+ accuracy, and in-turn maximise the return on their working capital. They are also able to improve their customer experience by ensuring the right stock is in the right place at the right time and find stock quickly using the in-store handheld RFID readers. RFID is also being used at all receiving and dispatch points throughout the business. They are achieving 100% pick and dispatch accuracy in and from their Distribution Centres and 100% receipt accuracy at their stores. RFID has enabled, in conjunction with NetSuite, quick and accurate interbranch transfers. This is a great example "Real-Time operational Excellence" (RTE).
INDUSTRY
Retail
smaRTE SOLUTIONS
smaRTE Stock
De Beers Group
The De Beers Sightholder Sales department is responsible for the cleaning, sorting, grading, and selling of the diamonds that they receive from their various mines. This process is dependent on a large number of assets and was rather manual and inefficient. The De Beers team partnered with FLEX Digital to help streamline this process. Our smaRTE Assets solution was first deployed to track their various IT equipment, using RFID technology. Furthermore, our smaRTE Stock solution has been implemented to provide real-time tracking and tracing of the boxes and briefcases that the diamonds are transported in, using BLE technology. This provides substantial improvements in the real-time monitoring, management, and security of these assets, which has unlocked an extra 2 hours per day of production time.
INDUSTRY
Mining
smaRTE SOLUTIONS
smaRTE Stock
smaRTE Assets
FirstRand Group
Since the advent of COVID, the FirstRand Group has migrated to a hybrid working culture where staff can work from home and the office. This has led to a significant rise in controls required around their large number of assets that are either supposed to remain in the offices, or move in-and-out of the buildings. These include PC's, laptops, monitors, and other IT equipment, as well as desks, chairs, and even artwork. The FirstRand Group engaged with FLEX Digital to assist them to provide better management and tracking of these assets. Our smaRTE Assets solution was implemented, using a combination of RFID and BLE technologies. This has allowed the FirstRand team to perform quick and accurate daily stock-takes of non-moveable assets, as well as enforce better control of how moveable assets are moving in-and-out of their buildings. BLE-based tamper sensors are also placed on their valuable artwork to alarm if they are being removed without authorisation.
INDUSTRY
Smart Buildings
smaRTE SOLUTIONS
smaRTE Assets
COCT - City Of Cape Town
The Transport and Urban Development Authority (TDA) of the City of Cape Town (CoCT) is responsible for the management of all public transport infrastructure in the city. This extends to their Public Transport Interchange (PTI) facilities at major transport hubs (rail, taxi, and bus), the MyCiti bus stations, as well as the area traffic control team responsible for all traffic light systems around the metropole. The TDA has rapidly expanded its operational technology footprint to all these locations throughout the city and has connected these via its converged IT infrastructure. However, the TDA team had limited visibility of this operational technology environment. They recognised that they had to balance the benefits of connectivity and convergence with modern cyber-physical risk factors. Our smaRTE Splice solution was deployed to protect their OT environment by employing a combination of continuous monitoring, automated
AI-driven anomaly detection, and real time response.
INDUSTRY
Smart Cities
smaRTE SOLUTIONS
smaRTE Splice
smaRTE Assets
smaRTE Keys
WBC - We Buy Cars
WeBuyCars (WBC) had been battling with a major operational challenge for over 4 years, with no realistic solution, until they engaged with FLEX Digital. Each of their sales warehouses around the country has over 1,000 vehicles in them at any one time. Manually identifying and counting each vehicle on a daily basis was wasting about 2 hours per day for their sales staff, instead of them spending that valuable time with customers. Also, by the time they had completed the count, many of the vehicles had already moved, due to test driving, vehicles being sold etc. This led to an inaccurate count. Also, because these cars were being moved all the time, it was incredibly difficult to keep track of which cars were parked in which bays at any given time. This meant time wasted finding cars, which ultimately led to frustrated customers and a risk of lost sales. Having explored various other avenues, they entrusted FLEX Digital to solve this for them. We deployed our smaRTE Indoor Asset Tracking solution, using BLE Angle-of-Arrival, to provide live stock counts of vehicles, as well as real-time, bay-level accuracy vehicle tracking so that the sales staff and customers can quickly and easily locate a specific vehicle in the warehouse.
INDUSTRY
Automotive
smaRTE SOLUTIONS
smaRTE Assets
smaRTE Access
Zeiss Vision
Zeiss vision is a specialist in eyeglass manufacturing and assembly. They manufacture the lenses in Germany and then assemble the eyeglasses in South Africa. They had 2 main challenges around better management of their stock of lenses and frames, as well as optimising their assembly line. Their stock was managed and counted manually, which led to many inaccuracies around replenishment of lenses and shrinkage of frames. They also had no automatic way to confirm that the right lenses were assembled with the right frames, as well as being able to measure the efficiency of their assembly line and staff. FLEX Digital was employed to assist Zeiss with these challenges. Our smaRTE Stock and Indoor Asset Tracking solution is used to get their stock accuracy up to 99% using RFID technology, while also using our BLE technology to track their job trays throughout the assembly line. This enables Zeiss to automatically check the job compilation and alert if incorrect before the eyeglasses are assembled, as well as measure and optimise the performance of their assembly line and staff.
INDUSTRY
Manufacturing & Assembly
smaRTE SOLUTIONS
smaRTE Stock
smaRTE Assets
Solenco
Solenco sources and distributes international award-winning air treatment and lifestyle products from their warehouse is in Port Elizabeth. Their customers are many of South Africa’s leading lifestyle retailers such as Yuppiechef, Builders Warehouse, Clicks, Hirschs, etc. Solenco print RFID labels at their warehouse in Port Elizabeth. The labels are then couriered to their suppliers overseas who apply the pre-printed and encoded labels to the products on Solenco’s behalf. The RFID labled products are then shipped in a container via sea to Port Elizabeth. On arrival of the container, Solenco use an RFID handheld reader to receive the shipment to item level quickly and accurately. Solenco are also using RFID to perform regular stock takes, and locate specific units in the warehouse, as well as ensuring 100% picking and dispatch accuracy.
INDUSTRY
Warehousing & Logistics
smaRTE SOLUTIONS
smaRTE Stock
Cape Town Infusion Centre
Cape Town Infusion Centre (CTIC) is Southern Africa’s largest specialised high risk infusion centre focusing on inflammatory bowel disease and anaemia. Upholding the governance surrounding these highly specialised infusions is extremely administrative and labour intensive. CTIC have adopted RPA to reduce the burden of mundane and repetitive administrative load on their infusion staff, which has allowed them to focus on the patients and ensure that they can provide the highest level of care.
INDUSTRY
Healthcare
smaRTE SOLUTIONS