Energy & Critical Equipment Manufacturing

Protect Every Delivery Date, From Inbound to Dispatch

Your most complex builds are engineered and made to order. No fixed line, parts move by crane, tracking done manually. Inpixon puts continuous, real-time location on the floor: higher on-time delivery, more throughput, audit-ready proof.

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Trusted by leaders in energy & critical equipment manufacturing

Purpose-built for high-mix, low-volume and engineer-to-order production — where every unit is six or seven figures and every delay has a penalty clause.
The Reality on the Shop Floor

In Energy & Equipment Manufacturing, a Missing Part isn't a Delay. It's a Penalty.

The unit can't ship, the customer waits, & the milestone payment slips with it. On engineer-to-order floors where every unit is a six- or seven-figure build, it's always the same five problems.
  1. WIP disappears between stations

    A rotor, nacelle, or transformer moves between assembly, balancing, test, and the outdoor yard. No system can say which zone it's in right now.

  2. ERP data lags behind physical reality

    SAP status waits on someone remembering to scan a paper traveler, so you plan a power-project milestone off WIP that's already days stale.

  3. Kitting errors and late material block assembly

    One missing casting, coil, or blade idles a booked spin-test or high-voltage test bay, and the crew standing around it, while the milestone behind it slips.

  4. Search time consumes capacity

    On an engineer-to-order floor the constraint is skilled labor and test-bay time, not machines. Both get burned walking a metal-heavy hall and open laydown yard hunting a fixture, test rig, or sub-assembly.

  5. Traceability is manual

    Where each serialized component was, when, and at which station is reconstructed by hand from travelers & scans. Movement records your MES/QMS has to stitch together after the fact.

Built for Your Sub-Segment

Six Products, Six Material-Flow Realities. We Know Each One.

Energy and critical equipment isn't one factory. Each product line has its own component history, test sequence, and staging problem: here's where Inpixon maps to yours.
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Steam & gas turbines

Heavy, serialized components move through many stations before they become a unit. Inpixon tracks each part continuously through to final assembly, with no paper traveler.
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Wind energy equipment

Large assemblies and components move between the hall and outdoor areas. Inpixon captures them continuously, indoors and out, on one map.
Generators, large motors and drives

Generators, large motors & drives

Long production and test sequences where one misrouted component blocks a booked test bay. Inpixon shows where every part is in real time.
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Transformers & HV equipment

Sequence-critical assembly and test steps that have to run in the right order. Inpixon keeps the sequence traceable and provable after the fact.
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Compressors & turbomachinery

Close-tolerance assemblies where one missing part holds up a test bay, and the milestone behind it. Inpixon shows what's missing before it stops assembly.
Critical pumps, valves & flow control

Critical pumps, valves & flow control

High demands on traceability and documentation, often in regulated or export-controlled areas. Inpixon delivers a complete, provable history per serial, with no manual scanning.
How We Solve It

Your Challenges, Mapped to Proven Solutions

Five levers, one outcome: on-time delivery. The same RTLS capabilities that run on any floor, focused on the economics of energy-equipment production — fewer expedites, milestones that hold, and a movement record your MES and QMS can trust. Each links to the full solution.
Material Flow

Skilled crews build units — they don't hunt for them.

On an engineer-to-order floor the constraint is skilled labor and test-bay time, not machines — and both get burned walking a metal-heavy hall and outdoor yard for a rotor, fixture, or kit in the wrong place. Every order, component, and load carrier reports its position continuously, indoors and out, so crews locate anything in seconds and WIP never falls off the map between stations.
  • Live WIP location across halls, buffers, and outdoor laydown yards
  • Find any order, serial, sub-assembly, test rig, or load carrier in seconds
  • Continuous multi-technology location (UWB indoors, GPS in the yard) — no handheld scanners
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Production Order Tracking

Catch the delay while it's still hours old.

Dwell-time and readiness rules watch every zone and test bay. When a kit is missing a component, a unit sits too long before a witnessed Factory Acceptance Test, or a part routes into the wrong hall, the right people are alerted while the delay is still hours — not weeks. A booked spin-test or HV-test bay never idles waiting on a part no one can find.
  • Kit-complete checks — every component located before assembly starts
  • Dwell-time and congestion alerts per zone and test bay
  • Fewer expedites and idle test slots; milestones that hold
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Scannerless Capture & Traceability

Every move logged automatically — and fed straight to your systems.

RTLS timestamps every zone entry, exit, and process step automatically, building a complete, gap-free location and movement history for each order and serialized component — with no handheld scan and no paper traveler. That movement record feeds your MES and QMS, so the genealogy and documentation they own are built on real events instead of missed scans. When an auditor asks where a casing was and when, it's a query, not a week of pulling travelers.
  • Automatic, timestamped movement history per order and component
  • Closes the gaps left by missed scans and lost paper travelers
  • Feeds MES/QMS with location evidence for audit and export-control readiness
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Scannerless Traceability with Automated Location History
SAP / MES Integration

Your ERP knows the plan. We tell it what's actually happening.

Location and Auto-ID events post directly into SAP and your MES — goods movements, order confirmations, hold-point status — triggered by physical reality instead of a scan someone entered three days later. Planning, capacity, and the milestones behind your customer commitments finally run on ground truth.
  • Automatic SAP postings from zone and hold-point events — no manual entry
  • Fewer posting deviations; WIP and project inventory that match the floor
  • REST API and MQTT for MES, WMS, and analytics
See how SAP/MES integration works →
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RULE-BASED AUTOMATION

The rule decides. The system acts, instantly.

Location events feed directly into the rules engine: wrong zone, missing kit component, dwell time exceeded. When a defined if-then rule matches, it immediately triggers an escalation, alert, or system step in SAP or MES, no AI required and no manual review by a team.
  • If-then rules based on (digital) zones, dwell time, and events
  • Escalation, alert, or system trigger with no manual step
  • Configurable per zone, process step, or exception case
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How It Works

From Live Location to Automated Production Steps.

Inpixon is a technology-agnostic RTLS platform. It captures position from the right sensing standard for each zone, then turns location and Auto-ID events into automated steps inside your ERP, MES, or WMS.
  1. Locate
    Know where every part, tool, sub-assembly, and unit is. Instantly and always, across hall, buffer, and yard.
  2. Automate
    A rules engine turns location and Auto-ID events into process steps: status changes, kitting checks, station hand-offs, and ERP updates, without manual scans.
  3. Ask Early access
    Ask askPixi AI where a unit is and why it is behind. Plain-language answers from live floor signals.
From Floor Movement to ERP and askPixi
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Auditable postings
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Plain-language answers
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Location and Auto-ID capture
Physical floor
Every step emits an event
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Steps run in parallel, loop and wait. Capture does not depend on a fixed route.

Proof From Your Own Segment

A Brownfield, Engineer-to-Order Turbine Plant. Exactly Like Yours.

Siemens Energy runs a century-old steam turbine service operation in Nuremberg, in a highly complex brownfield environment with handover points, staging areas, customs clearance zones, and external processing steps, the same constraints you're reading this page with. Inpixon RTLS tracks pallets, turbines, components, and documentation in real time across 16 zones, triggering workflow steps automatically based on where things actually are. SAP integration via Mendix turns those movements into automated, auditable postings. On top, askPixi AI translates the location data into plain-language priorities and escalation cues for the team.
"This implementation confirms our strategy to turn complex environments into high-velocity execution hubs. By bridging the gap between the shop floor and SAP with intelligent, location-aware workflows, we have created a blueprint that sets a new digital standard."
Daniel Weber, IT Analyst, Siemens Energy
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Up to 90%
less search time
~20%
higher parts throughput
~25%
improvement in dwell-time stability
~50%
reduction in SAP posting deviations
FAQ

RTLS for Energy-Equipment Manufacturing: Common Questions

In energy-equipment production a slipped step isn't a late shipment — it's liquidated damages on a utility or EPC contract. Most misses start as small, invisible delays: a unit dwelling too long before a witnessed Factory Acceptance Test (FAT), a component misrouted between halls, a test rig no one can find. RTLS watches dwell times and flow in every zone and test bay and alerts the right people while the delay is still hours old. At Siemens Energy this produced roughly 25% more stable dwell times and about 20% fewer congestion interruptions — early warnings that protect milestones and the billing behind them.

READY WHEN YOU ARE

Ready to See Where Every Order Actually is?

A 30-minute plant assessment shows you where RTLS fits in your operation — and the outcomes to expect in your first year.