Get Real-Time Manufacturing Visibility and Traceability with Sonaria.
Sonaria Manufacturing gives you real-time visibility into your materials, work-in-process (WIP), assets, equipment, and people—so you can achieve better throughput and efficiency, stronger quality control, and audit-ready compliance.
Achieve Your Manufacturing Goals with Better Visibility.
Sonaria automatically captures and connects sensor-driven data from across your manufacturing operations, so every movement, process step, and handoff is visible, validated, and actionable in real time.
Real-Time Manufacturing Visibility
Material, Inventory and WIP Traceability
Automated Wireless Locating and Tracking
50%–70% Less Manual Effort and Labor
Smart Insights into Assets, Processes, People
Complete Digital Chain of Custody
Audit-Ready Quality and Compliance Records
Higher Throughput with Fewer Errors
Seamless ERP, MES, QMS & TMS Integration
Designed for Real-World Production Processes and Results
Sonaria is purpose-built for real manufacturing workflows, using industry-standard processes. It automates identification, tracking and locating and provides a real-time visibility layer to help you eliminate blind spots, reduce manual effort, and ensure that every step is accurate and traceable.
- Touchless validation of inbound materials and components
- Automated verification of correct items, lots, and quantities
- Accurate put-away zone confirmation
- Digital item-to-container and container-to-pallet relationships
- Real-time WIP visibility across lines, stations, and cells
- Verification of correct process steps and assemblies
- Automated capture of lot, batch, and serial relationships
- Asset and workforce location visibility to support flow and productivity
- End-to-end traceability for inspection, quarantine, and recall
- Digital chain of custody for materials, components, and finished goods
- Automated documentation for audits and regulatory compliance
- Faster root-cause analysis and corrective actions
- Automated inventory tracking, locating, and cycle counts
- Real-time zone, inter-zone, and inter-site visibility
- Digital and automated issue and return of tools and assets
- Calibration and compliance tracking for tools and equipment
- Automated verification of staging and fulfillment accuracy
- Dock-door validation of outbound items, cases, and pallets
- Real-time exception alerts to enable corrective action
- Complete traceability for compliance and auditing
How Sonaria Works in Your Manufacturing Environment
Sonaria applies a consistent, results-focused approach to every manufacturing workflow:
Detect and identify materials, assets, or personnel using the appropriate sensing technology
Compare real-time events against expected production, quality, or inventory records
Apply manufacturing-specific business rules to validate accuracy or flag exceptions
Apply manufacturing-specific business rules to validate accuracy or flag exceptions
Update users instantly with clear feedback, alerts, and prompts for next actions
Inbound Operations
Touchless Receiving Validation
100% accurate, automated inbound material and component validation at your dock door
- Sensors detect and read your asset
- Sonaria compares it with your BOL
- Sonaria validates accuracy or exceptions
- User receives instant feedback
Put-Away Accuracy and Zone Confirmation
Automatic validation of storage zone placement to prevent misplaced inventory
- Sensors detect assets and location zones
- Sonaria validates correct put-away zones with your system
- User performs put-away and manages exceptions
- Sonaria updates and confirms all final location data
Item-to-Case Aggregation
Automated and accurate item-to-case verification and order accuracy validation
- Sensors detect tagged items and containers
- Sonaria compares items and containers against system orders
- Sonaria verifies order accuracy or identifies exceptions
- Sonaria provides prompt feedback and system updates
Case-to-Pallet Aggregation
Digital linking of cases and pallets to verify shipment accuracy and track movement
- Sensors detect tagged cases
- Sonaria links cases to pallets and creates a digital hierarchy
- Your user prints and applies pallet labels
- Case and pallet aggregation is updated in your system
Returnable Asset Tracking (RTI)
Closed-loop visibility of your reusable containers and transport items
- Sensors detect your RTIs as they enter/exit buildings and zones
- Sonaria tracks RTIs as an adjacent container type
- Sonaria applies business rules to update RTI inventory in your systems
- Users get access to real-time, accurate reporting
Work-in-Process and Production Traceability
Assembly Process Validation
Confirmation of proper steps and completed assemblies at each station
- Sensors detect assembly carrier, parts, and tools
- Sonaria validates correct items and carrier with your system
- Sonaria confirms correct assembly or identifies exceptions
- User and your system receive real-time updates and feedback
Tool Calibration and Compliance Management
Automated tracking and traceability of tool calibration and asset compliance
- Sensors detect tools in your read zone
- Sonaria checks specific tagged tool against calibration requirements
- Sonaria confirms compliance or notifies user of exceptions
- User and your system receive real-time feedback and updates
Asset and Workforce Location Visibility
Real-time equipment and personnel tracking to maximize safety and productivity
- Sensors detect tagged equipment or personnel ID badges
- Sonaria plots locations and data on maps/zones
- Sonaria applies business rules to create actionable notifications
- Users stay updated and aware of asset and workforce locations
Inventory Control and Movement
Automated Cycle Counting
Continuous real-time inventory, location and movement tracking to eliminate manual counts
- Sensors detect assets and location zones
- Sonaria compares counts and locations to your ERP/WMS
- Sonaria sends resulting data to update your systems
- User receives feedback and manages exceptions
Inter-Zone/Inter-Site Asset Visibility
- Sensors detect assets as they enter and exit buildings and zones
- Sonaria detects movement and applies business rules
- Your ERP or WMS inventory is updated in real-time
- All department/location/zone ownership changes are documented
Real-Time Zone Inventory Tracking
Accurate, location-based stock positions for improved replenishment
- Sensors detect inventory and associated zones
- Sonaria associates zones to locations in your ERP/WMS
- Inventory changes are detected during movement and updated in
- real time
- Users get clear visibility into real-time zone inventory
Automated Tool and Equipment Issue/Return
Accurate, real-time asset check-ins and check-outs for reduced losses and downtime
- Sensors detect tagged assets and locations
- Sonaria captures the user’s ID and info at check-in/check-out
- Asset, user, and other data are sent to your ERP/WMS systems
- A complete digital record of issues and returns is maintained
Outbound Staging and Shipping
Outbound Staging Accuracy
Confirmation that staging and outbound shipments match your orders
- Sensors detect pallets as they enter a staging zone
- Sonaria validates the pallet ID/zone against your shipping plan
- Sonaria confirms verification or exceptions with your TMS/ERP
- User receives instant updates and exception alerts
Dock-Door Shipment Validation
Validation that every pallet and case is loaded on the correct carrier reduces claims and rework
- Sensors detect pallets or cases at your dock door during the loading process
- Sonaria compares assets with your ERP/TMS outbound BOL
- User gets instant feedback of validation or exception
Regulatory and Compliance Traceability
Instant digital audit trails to meet FDA, DoD, automotive and other mandates
- Sonaria maintains customer label standards (GS1, OEM)
- Sonaria sends parent/child relationships to your system for ASNs
- Sonaria helps ensure that every shipment matches the customer order
- Users and your system receive real-time feedback and updates
Proven Sensor-Based Visibility with Connected Intelligence
Sonaria supports multiple sensing technologies and orchestrates them into a unified intelligence layer, so manufacturers can apply the right level of accuracy, range, and cost efficiency to each use case.
Rain RFID
Scalable item-level traceability throughout your processes
BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy)
Real-time visibility into mobile assets and personnel
UWB (Ultra-Wideband)
High-precision tracking for critical assets and constrained workspaces
Deploy using cloud or edge architecture and connect to a wide range of third-party hardware and systems.
Sonaria Modules and Use Cases
See What True Manufacturing Visibility Looks Like.
Book a demo and discover how Sonaria Manufacturing can help you improve throughput, quality, and compliance.