The Wrigley Company, the world’s largest chewing gum manufacturer with production facilities in 14 countries, has adopted a real-time enterprise visibility RFID solution developed by AeroScout Inc. The system is deployed at Wrigley’s plant in Poznan, Poland, the its largest European manufacturing facility.

Wrigley is using AeroScout’s technology integrated with a Cisco Unified Wireless Network at the factory to track the location of pallets in real time. The company expects the system to result in a notable increase in the plant’s efficiency by eliminating both wasted time and lost product.

“The AeroScout solution will significantly increase the productivity of our facility in Poznan and because we were able to use our existing Cisco network, the installation was very straightforward,” said Jacek Mackowiak, factory director at Wrigley in Poznan. “The solution provides benefits, which cut production time and thus increase effectiveness. All of this equates to improved product quality management.”