Industrial IoT traceability: from the production lot to the whole supply chain
Industrial traceability means connecting every lot you produce to the data behind it: the machine, the shift, the raw materials, the process parameters and the conditions it was handled in. Kept on paper or in spreadsheets, reconstructing the history of a lot takes days. Captured automatically from the shop floor, it takes seconds.
Codebaker builds IoT solutions for manufacturing, logistics and food & beverage companies that turn production traceability into an automatic process. Industrial sensors, PLCs and edge gateways feed a custom cloud platform where every lot has a complete record, available in real time.
How IoT-based production traceability works
Traceability data is born on the shop floor, not in the back office. We connect your existing machines through their PLCs and standard industrial protocols, add sensors where they are missing, and bring everything into a single platform without replacing the infrastructure you already run.
- Data acquisition from line PLCs over OPC-UA, Modbus and Profinet, so each lot carries the actual process parameters that produced it.
- IP65 industrial sensors for temperature, humidity and shock, recording the conditions in which a lot was made, stored and moved.
- Industrial edge gateways with offline buffering: if the plant network drops, traceability data is held locally and synchronised once the link is back.
- Cloud platform with custom real-time dashboards: one view for production, one for quality, one for management.
Lot and batch tracking, from raw material to end customer
Useful lot tracking works in both directions: upstream, to trace a finished product back to its raw materials and suppliers; downstream, to find quickly where a suspect batch ended up and keep the scope of a recall as narrow as possible.
- Lot genealogy: the link between raw materials, work in progress, finished goods, machine and production shift.
- Reverse lookup: from a single batch code back to suppliers, checks and the recorded process conditions.
- Continuous cold chain monitoring, with the temperature history tied to the individual lot or shipment.
- End-to-end traceability from field to table for food & beverage producers, with data always ready for audits and inspections.
Why work with Codebaker on industrial traceability
We are a software house based in Bologna, working since 2019, and we handle the whole path in-house: plant assessment, sensors, edge, cloud and integration with your business systems. The same platform that tracks your lots can also power predictive maintenance with AI and machine learning, cutting unplanned machine downtime by up to 40% and production scrap by 20%.
- One in-house end-to-end team: a single counterpart from the sensor to the dashboard, with no chain of subcontractors.
- You own the source code: no vendor lock-in on your traceability platform.
- Based in Bologna and Emilia-Romagna, with hands-on experience in manufacturing, logistics and food & beverage.
Frequently asked questions
What is industrial IoT traceability?
It is the automatic capture, through connected sensors, PLCs and gateways, of the data that identifies each lot across production and the supply chain. Instead of hand-written registers, every lot has a digital history you can query in real time.
Does it work with the machines and business systems we already have?
Yes. We connect to your existing PLCs through standard industrial protocols (OPC-UA, Modbus, Profinet) and feed the data into the systems already in use, without replacing your plant infrastructure.
What happens if the plant loses connectivity?
Industrial edge gateways keep recording locally thanks to offline buffering and synchronise with the cloud as soon as the connection returns. The traceability record for the lot stays complete.
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