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Approximately 70 percent of our customers are in the automotive or aerospace manufacturing sectors
sector , Ubisense helps organizations with highly complex manufacturing and testing processes to improve productivity , increase asset and resource utilization and reduce errors by tracking the real-time movement and interaction of products , people and tools .
“ Right now ,” he continues . “ About six million cars are built each year under the control of a Ubisense sensor system . Our customers are typically using those systems to gain visibility into what ’ s happening in their manufacturing operations . They want to be able to gather data over long periods of time about where things are moving in their factory , how they ’ re moving , and what they ’ re interacting with to allow them to assess trends .
“ Take , for example , Aston Martin , which has been a Ubisense customer for over 15 years . They manufacture unique vehicles to individual customer specifications , so , it ’ s important for our systems to be able to track each vehicle around the factory . Now , they can see exactly where every single vehicle is and at what stage of production they are . All that information is available at the touch of a button and can facilitate operational improvements .
“ At the other end of the production scale is Mercedes-Benz , where more than ten of their global production plants are currently using our technology . The same production line might see many different models of car
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