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upporting that output is an internal logistics operation built around a fleet of 1,500 to 1,600 trolleys and logistics trains, mobilised continuously through sheet metal fabrication, painting, assembly and line delivery. Until recently, none of those assets carried any form of electronic tracking. Fleet management depended on manual
inventory counts, typically recorded in Excel spreadsheets. During planned site closures, multiple sequential counts were sometimes required before a reliable baseline could be established. As production volumes grew, assets that were in active use and anticipating shortfalls before they disrupted operations had was averaging approximately three unplanned logistics disruptions per month as a direct consequence.
TENDER, PILOT AND DEPLOYMENT In 2024, Vaillant ran a competitive tender was selected and an initial pilot was scoped deliberately to limit commitment: approximately conditions.
reader infrastructure, using Bluetooth Low Energy technology to provide reliable zone-level accessible directly to site teams via an intuitive dashboard, requiring no integration with existing of the pilot going live, the data was already providing factual insight into asset movement
By Cyril Jouanlanne, Key Account Manager, Sensolus
Vaillant is one of Europe’s most established manufacturers of boilers and heat pump systems, producing approximately 166,000 units per year across a 48,000 m² production facility
Vaillant to commit to full deployment. with the rollout completed over a short, integrated directly into daily operations and analysis, enabling the logistics team to base operational decisions on measured data rather than estimation.
were rarely or never in use. A portion of those dormant assets was redirected to an external storage provider, allowing Vaillant to draw on created demand for additional equipment, rather single project was approximately £26,000 in avoided capital expenditure. Operationally, the platform’s shortage alerting
capability addressed the recurring disruption problem directly. Zones approaching a shortfall reallocation of assets rather than reactive both productivity gains and, as Vaillant notes few months of full deployment, trolley utilisation had improved by approximately 5 per cent. Return on investment across the programme was reached in approximately 1.2 years. With one year of historical data now
accumulated, Vaillant is extending the platform’s 10 APRIL 2026 |
application beyond location and shortage used to structure both corrective and preventive maintenance: identifying assets requiring repair, directing them to dedicated maintenance zones and scheduling interventions from data managed manually have been automated and made more reliable as a result.
quality and improved zone discrimination across the production facility, a technical challenge where zones sit in close proximity. Hardware reliability across the deployment has been and replaced promptly. “We haven’t yet tapped 100 per cent of the
logistics system,” says Adrien Guihery. Cyril Jouanlanne, Key Account Manager, to deploy and produce reliable, actionable improvement grounded in measurement rather than estimation.”
Vaillant
www.sensolus.com
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