Renegade Materials partnered with Xemelgo to modernize how it tracks thermal exposure on high performance composite materials across two facilities. Xemelgo's cloud based RFID platform automatically captures every material movement from receiving through production and shipment, replacing a paper based process with real time visibility.
Renegade Materials is an advanced composite materials manufacturer supplying high-performance prepregs, resins, and adhesives to the aerospace industry. Every material they produce has a carefully controlled usable life outside of frozen storage. From the moment a roll of prepreg or batch of resin leaves the freezer, it begins accumulating thermal exposure against an engineering-defined allowable limit. Each material has its own exposure specification, making accurate tracking essential to maintaining product integrity and meeting stringent aerospace requirements.
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Supporting growth with scalable processes: As production expanded, tracking hundreds of temperature-sensitive materials, each with unique out-of-freezer exposure limits, required an automated solution capable of scaling alongside the business while maintaining exceptional accuracy.
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Reducing manual administrative effort: Teams across shipping, engineering, quality, and production recorded a significant number of material transactions each day. Automating these routine activities would reduce administrative workload while allowing personnel to focus on higher-value manufacturing and quality initiatives.
- Improving visibility across facilities: Materials routinely moved between multiple production areas and freezers. Renegade wanted every transfer automatically captured, providing complete thermal exposure history, immediate visibility into accumulated out-of-freezer time, and proactive notifications as materials approached their allowable exposure limits.
- Enhancing material traceability: With multiple large freezers and active production, the team sought faster, real-time visibility into material locations, eliminating time spent searching for inventory and improving production efficiency.
Renegade deployed Xemelgo’s cloud-based RFID platform that automatically tracks every temperature-sensitive material from receiving, production and shipment. RFID tags applied to incoming raw materials and finished goods are read by fixed RFID readers installed at freezer, production, and warehouse access points, automatically recording every movement without manual data entry.
The solution integrates directly with Epicor ERP to automate material consumption recording while maintaining a complete, permanent history of out-of-freezer exposure for every lot. Custom dashboards provide real-time visibility into material status, accumulated thermal exposure, location, and audit-ready reporting, supporting customer certifications and regulatory compliance.
