Sensors Support Integrated Information Systems - Advances in sensors, transmitters and networking make real-line information available throughout an enterprise

摘要

Sensors are just as important to Bayer AG's customer service as its fancy inventory and supply chain management software. From its Largest plant in Leverkusen, Germany, the giant chemical and pharmaceutical company relies on radar, ultrasound and pressure sensors to monitor the levels of the remote storage tanks that it maintains at its customers' plants. Based orr reports from these sensors, the plant's management software not only orders supplies and schedules production to satisfy demand automatically, but it also dispatches trucks to refill its customers' tanks with the appropriate chemicals as needed.