“How can we optimize materials tracking and material deliveries in heavy industry construction projects?”- this question has been asked by organizations, who have been project owners in capital projects, for the better part of 30 years. In 2022, most business processes and operations are digitalized, automated and optimized through AI. Still, when it comes to managing material delivery information in capital projects, data on materials, packages, containers and delivery timelines if often sent via Excels and emails between individual people in the entire project network. All project business organizations recognize the need for more transparent material delivery information exchange, but not all of them know where to look for it. Tracking materials in capital projects using RFID tags is one of the digital technologies discussed in project businesses.

In today's episode I interviewed Petri Kiianlinna, who is the CEO of LogiNets, on whether RFID- tagging of materials and equipment is an efficient way of tracking material deliveries in heavy industry construction projects. Petri is an engineer, who worked for Metso Corporation for 13 years in global capital construction projects and he was also the leader of the Heavy Industry Intelligence Project in the beginning of the 2000’s.

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