Essential industries like Food and Beverage, and Chemical industries are looking to get back to full scale production without having to compromise the safety of the employees. These industries have implemented various steps like daily temperature checks, adherence to sanitization, deep cleaning, etc. Despite this, we still hear about facilities or factories being shut down due to coronavirus cases .

Today CDC/ WHO/ OSHA have industry mandates/ guidelines for every person at a workplace to maintain a safe distance to avoid contracting or spreading any form of infection. This is however not easy at a manufacturing facility while every employee is working hard to complete their production goals and not run into their co-workers.

A Proximity Sensing application in such conditions is logical choice to mitigate such risks. Such an application will help employees cautiously maintain safe distance from each other without having to look around every time they walk around. Imagine a scenario where there are 15 people in a shift working on a line at different points from raw material mixing, producing, packing, storing and finally shipping. The process flows here run the risk of employees stepping across each other for various things. But with the application in place, the person picking up raw materials from the warehouse can walk around and pick the material, but if this person gets too close to another person within that section they would immediately get notified so they can stop and look around.

For an Operations Manager perspective, the solution would analyze the movement of workforce on a shop floor and help optimize their processes to ensure adherence to the mandates. This could be in the form of guided procedures in moving around the shop floor to support physical distancing or allow people to take their breaks systematically without any overlap and not crowd the employee rest areas.

The idea here is to reduce the effort of manually having a Shop floor inspector walk around policing the employees to maintain distance but have this automatically managed via triggers and notifications from a centrally managed real-time monitoring application which can help audit, produce audit reports for compliance and also help track problem areas on the shop floor.

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