Panalpina is extending its cool chain network
Rising demand for temperature-controlled shipment induces Panalpina to enhance the use of SmartView technology
Panalpina is extending its cool chain network based on RFID (radio-frequency identification) sensors with SmartView temperature control-technology to ensure seamless monitoring, control and documentation of its transport operations. For the best possible transparency, SmartView is also being integrated into the company’s IT platforms.
As part of the PanCool initiative, Panalpina has in the past few years established a door-to-door proactive monitoring, control and documentation system for temperature sensitive cargo. Panalpina’s new flagships, the two wet-leased (including staff) Boeing 747-8 Freighters, mark the latest and apparent investment in building a global state-of-the-art cool chain network. The Panalpina aircraft can maintain different determined temperature ranges at the same time: For example, one for 2 to 8 degrees Celsius (cold chain) and one for 15 to 25 degrees Celsius (controlled room temperature).
Since the introduction of SmartView, the global provider of supply chain solutions has monitored and documented over 3,000 temperature-controlled shipments. The major part of products being moved in temperature-controlled environments are pharmaceuticals; others include chemical pre-products, dangerous and hazardous substances, high-tech wafers and even printing machines and test or prototype automobiles.
The active RFID sensors of the SmartView system are attached to the shipments where they record the environment temperature every 15 minutes. For security reasons, recorded data is not immediately transmitted to the central database during flight. The radio signals may otherwise interfere with the aircraft’s technical systems. But as soon as the cargo is unloaded at the airport and in reach of a router, the data is automatically transmitted and fed into the database. Panalpina’s routers are typically located in the transit warehouses of airports. The same type of RFID sensors also monitor the environment temperature of designated cool cells of such Panalpina facilities – again at 15 minute intervals and around the clock.
Quelle: LogEastics
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