RAMS Manufacturing Solutions

Better than a D-Series portal.Omni-Scan RFID

Overhead passive RFID takes continuous inventory visibility beyond the dock door and into the warehouse.

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Organizations that trust Omni-Scan:

  • Emerson
  • Cummins
  • Pratt & Whitney
  • BAE Systems
  • DHL
  • Pella
  • Lockheed Martin
  • United States Marine Corps
  • United States Navy
  • Caterpillar

Proven at F500 Scale.

50 antennas are deployed live at a Fortune 500 tool manufacturer.

This is the operational model a portal cannot reach: fixed, overhead, passive coverage that continues across docks, staging, and aisles instead of stopping at the door frame.

antennas deployed live
50
sq ft deployed
700,000
pallets verified every year
450,000

Omni-Scan makes the D-Series dock door obsolete.

Same RAIN RFID tags. A completely different ceiling, literally. Here’s the head-to-head.

RAMS Omni-Scan
D-Series dock door
Where it lives
Overhead, ceiling-mounted, completely out of forklift range
Floor-level portal frames at every single door
Direction
True inbound vs. outbound resolved on every read
A presence read, so direction is a guess
Fidelity
Steerable-beam 3D location, 1–3 ft accuracy
Tag seen / tag not seen
Past the dock
The same antennas keep counting inventory deep inside the warehouse, up to 5,000 sq ft each
Coverage ends at the door frame
Growing
Add doors and interior zones in software
Buy, install, and wire another portal

And when a portal frame takes a forklift hit, that door is down. There is nothing at floor level for a forklift to hit in an Omni-Scan facility.

Overhead. Out of the way. Always reading.

Steerable RF beams covering a dock door as a forklift passes through
Steerable beams cover the dock door. Direction resolved on every pallet, nothing at floor level to hit
Wide-area beam coverage over a staging and production floor
The same antennas sweep staging and production, up to 5,000 sq ft each
Overhead smart antenna mounted above a racking aisle
Between the racks: automatic inventory counts while you work

One overhead system reads the work that happens after the door.

Omni-Scan creates an always-on physical inventory signal, then Omni-Ware turns that signal into structured events for the systems already running the operation.

Overhead by design

Ceiling-mounted antennas stay clear of forklifts and carry the same read model from the dock door into staging, storage, and aisles.

Passive and continuous

RAIN RFID tags are read without a trigger, handheld, barcode line-of-sight, or operator action as inventory moves through coverage.

Directional in context

Configured zones turn a tag read into movement context: inbound, outbound, transfer, and the aisle or zone where it occurred.

Two models for every ceiling height.

Published CS Smart Antenna specifications pair a lower-ceiling, dock-focused installation with a larger antenna for wide-area, high-bay coverage.

Product model

CS-445B

45 ft range · 10–30 ft mount · PoE

Lower-ceiling installations and dock-door coverage

Product model

CS-490

75 ft range · 20–50 ft mount · PoE+

High-bay warehouses and wider facility coverage

SpecificationCS-445BCS-490
Tag read distance45 ft75 ft
Mounting height10–30 ft20–50 ft
Tag read period8 ms8 ms
Location accuracy1.5–2 ft2–3 ft
Data and power sourcePoEPoE+

Trusted where failure isn’t an option.

United States Marine Corps

Award-winning RTLS implementation, named best RFID deployment of its year.

Aerospace & defense

BAE Systems and Pratt & Whitney programs run on the same smart-antenna platform.

U.S. federal supply chains

Deployed through integration programs serving federal government and Fortune 200 logistics.

Global engine manufacturer

Fortune 500 returnable-packaging tracking across plants and suppliers.

National tool manufacturer

Selected Omni-Scan over an incumbent D-Series dock-door system for its South Texas distribution hub, and is now expanding it.

Your facility

Every deployment is engineered, installed, and supported end-to-end by RAMS, antennas to Oracle.

The reads become decisions in Omni-Ware.

Omni-Scan supplies the continuous location signal; Omni-Ware turns it into structured, item-level events, evaluates it through a rules engine with full event history, and orchestrates the result into the WMS, MES, and ERP already in place.

Directional detection, dock validation, and inventory reconciliation are configured against the Omni-Scan read stream. Nothing that runs the operation gets ripped out.

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Don't budget this as capital expenditure.

We own the fleet. You pay a monthly operating expense priced below the payroll it replaces, with zero capital request and zero balance-sheet impact. Payments begin only when the system hits your agreed throughput threshold.

Zero capital request
One monthly fee covers equipment, maintenance, parts, service and software
Fee engineered below the displaced payroll, so savings start month one
A monthly figure for your operation, built from your project data and technical review.
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No capital request attached

Know where every pallet is, right now.

Request a site survey. One of our engineers will assess your facility and model overhead RFID coverage for your dock and floor.

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Questions we get every week

Coverage, accuracy and what overhead RAIN RFID can really see.

Location resolves to 1.5 to 2 ft with the CS-445B and 2 to 3 ft with the CS-490, continuously and without an operator triggering anything. That is precise enough to say which pallet is in which staging lane or rack position, not just that a tag passed a portal.

The CS-445B reads to about 45 ft and mounts 10 to 30 ft up; the CS-490 reads to about 75 ft and mounts 20 to 50 ft up for wide-area, high-bay coverage. Both read on an 8 ms tag period and run on Power over Ethernet, so a single overhead antenna covers a large area of floor rather than one doorway.

The point is that you stop needing them at the dock. Overhead antennas read passively and continuously as inventory moves through coverage, so inbound and outbound are recorded with no scan gun, no line of sight and no operator action. Handhelds remain useful for exception handling and cycle counts, which Omni-Ware Mobile also supports.

Dense racking, metal cages and liquids all affect RF behaviour, which is why coverage is modelled per site rather than quoted per square foot. Ceiling-mounted antennas help considerably because they look down on inventory instead of across it. We survey the building and model coverage before proposing an antenna count.

It depends on the area you need to see, the mounting height available and how precisely you need to locate items. As a live reference: 50 antennas cover 700,000 sq ft at a Fortune 500 tool manufacturer, handling roughly 450,000 pallets a year. Tell us the square footage, dock count and ceiling height and we will size it.

Dock door in and out validation, pallet and case location in racking and staging, returnable assets and containers, work in progress on the floor, and continuous cycle counting. The reads feed Omni-Ware, which turns raw tag events into movement context and pushes governed events into your WMS or ERP.