Complementing your existing applications

6D complements your existing applications by filling in the gaps or providing complementary application functionality that may be integrated with your existing applications.   Applying 6D to derive new insights increases efficiency, productivity, and generates new business value.

6D Solutions include:

  • Digital Transformation, Process Automation, and Analytics. Streamlining and automating operational processes and workflows across organizational silos robotically automates workflows and increases productivity and efficiency. Using sense, analyze, and respond mechanisms, business rules, analytics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, we drive increases in productivity and profitability through value innovation and invention.
  • Asset tracking, monitoring, and management.  Some applications may leverage low cost sensors that provide location data.  Other applications may leverage additional sensor information for temperature, humidity, vibration, and more.   And other applications may generate large amounts of data from 10, 50, 100 or more sensors from each device every few seconds.  Leveraging this information in the context of providing better operational insights, better asset maintenance and management, and loss prevention generates higher margins and profitability.
  • Supply and distribution chain logistics.  The movement of materials,  products, and assets from one point to another across multiple parties and organizations is best managed with new levels of insight, accountability, and control.  Whatever gaps you may have in your logistics today may be cost effectively improved using a combination of low cost edge technologies and 6D integrated with your existing applications.  In other cases, it is simply too expensive to adapt an existing system to take advantage of new technologies or to integrate that existing system into other systems.  Using 6D and our various technologies as well as other means, we can capture the appropriate information and integrate that data with our systems.  An example of such is being able to read box and pallet labels in warehouse operational settings using our visual analytics and 6D that can then be used for tracking those shipments and providing end-to-end visibility of those pallets and shipments.
  • Sustainable Asset Pooling for Circular Logistics. The digital transformation of pooled assets such as pallets, RPCs, containers, and more that enable circular logistics reduces waste and enhances your green footprint while reducing supply chain costs and increasing sustainability. In addition, with the proper use of sensors and pro-active monitoring and advanced analytics, our digital transformation strategies and real-time analytics increases product quality and freshness. Working with our partners, we provide semi-custom hardware solutions to best serve each pooled asset type that leverage advanced LPWAN and cellular networks as well as BLE technologies.
  • Cold Chain & Perishable Product Traceability, Monitoring, and Real-time Analytics. Monitoring the quality of perishable products across the cold chain and applying real-time temperature and humidity analytics increases shelf-life and product quality. Cumulative degree minutes accountability accounts for damage inflicted upon perishable products across the cold chain as well as by trip segment.
  • Security.  Applying new technologies to secure facilities, campuses, or shipments requires new applications to be seamlessly integrated with existing operations and applications.  6D provides these complementary application functionalities that leverage new technologies such as sensors, actuators, visual analytics, and more.  This includes mobile applications that security and operational personnel use in the field.
  • New mobile applications.  Building responsive mobile applications that are integrated with multiple backend applications requires the means to present an efficient and user friendly user experience that can hide the complexity of interacting with multiple back end applications.  6D’s mobile front end framework, application functionalities, and backend application and integration capabilities provides an efficient and effective means to deliver new business value.
  • IIoT.   New innovative use case scenarios that leverage multiple types of IoT technologies can be best illustrated by a 6D implementation of a self-service industrial kiosk that we did for a partner where an inventory location or free-standing mobile warehouse that used sea containers/trailers as the building housing the inventory was fully automated for self-service and inventory management of parts, tools, and consumables.   This solution leveraged access control technologies, visual analytics, sensors, actuators, weight scales, RFID, and barcodes.  As parts were used, consumables consumed, and tools removed and returned, 6D accounted for all the inventory and who removed and returned the tools so that proper charges by individual, job, and project were accounted for.