We started in manufacturing. Our customers pulled us into aerospace, retail, automotive, healthcare, high-tech, and beyond, and we haven't looked back.
Here's how Xemelgo and RAIN RFID are transforming operations across every sector.
There's a quiet revolution happening across the global economy. In factories, warehouses, hospitals, data centers, aircraft hangars, and retail stores, teams are finally getting answers to a question that once required an army of clipboards and manual counts:
"Where is everything, right now?"
RAIN RFID, passive UHF radio-frequency identification, makes it possible to identify and locate thousands of tagged items per second, without line-of-sight, without manual effort, and without expensive infrastructure. Paired with Xemelgo's cloud-based software platform, RAIN RFID becomes an operational intelligence layer that connects physical assets to the decisions that drive your business.
We started deep in manufacturing. But our customers and partners kept asking us to follow them into new territory: life sciences, retail, infrastructure and utilities, healthcare, IT infrastructure, and more. The pattern became clear: there is no industry that won't benefit from real-time operational visibility. None.
"RAIN RFID is unlocking a new era of intelligent, connected operations. Xemelgo is accelerating that future by making RFID easier to adopt, faster to scale, and more valuable across every industry we serve."
- Rich Rogers, CEO, Xemelgo
Each industry has its own complexity. Xemelgo's adaptable platform meets operations where they are, from shop floors to server rooms and retail stores to warehouse dock doors.
Manufacturing is Xemelgo's home turf. We've deployed real-time RFID visibility into more than 100 facilities, helping teams eliminate manual tracking, reduce production cycle times, and finally see what's happening on the shop floor without walking every aisle. One customer cut production lead time from seven days to just 24 hours by adopting Xemelgo's work-in-progress tracking, an 85% improvement. Another found all 71 open work orders they'd been unable to locate in a matter of minutes. That's not incremental improvement. That's transformation.
Watch how RFID transformed manufacturing operations at Curtiss-Wright.
Aerospace is where regulation, precision, and traceability collide. AS9100 audits, FAA compliance, and strict part genealogy requirements make manual tracking not just inefficient, it's a liability. SEKISUI Aerospace partnered with Xemelgo to replace clipboards and paper travelers with a fully connected, paperless factory. The result: complete traceability from raw material to finished component, with full digital records available at audit time. As one aerospace quality manager put it: the confidence heading into an AS9100 audit is now something they no longer lose sleep over.
See SEKISUI Aerospace's digital transformation in action.
Retail is ruthless about inventory accuracy. A misplaced item, an incorrect stock count, or a missed restock is a lost sale, and often a lost customer. Traditional cycle counting is slow, labor-intensive, and never current. RAIN RFID changes the math: full-store cycle counts that once took a team of associates all day can now be completed in minutes. Our customers uses Xemelgo in-store to run daily RFID-powered cycle counts, ensuring shelves reflect reality and associates spend their time serving customers rather than searching for stock. Apparel brands can also use Xemelgo's Digital Thread to link items from factory to final sale.
Healthcare organizations manage enormous inventories of high-value, expiration-sensitive assets, from surgical instruments, pharmaceuticals, lab equipment, and regulated supplies, often with manual, paper-based systems that introduce delay and error. Life sciences environments like compounding pharmacies and research labs add cleanroom complexity on top. RAIN RFID with Xemelgo brings the same grab-and-go inventory model that works in manufacturing directly to clinical and lab settings. Low stock triggers automatic alerts. Expired supplies are flagged before use. Asset audits that consumed hours now take minutes.
IT asset management is one of the most universally broken processes in modern organizations. Devices disappear. Audits rely on spreadsheets that were last accurate six months ago. Ghost assets inflate costs. Missing equipment means unplanned purchases. RAIN RFID readers installed at entry points, server rooms, and office spaces give IT teams real-time location awareness of every tagged device. Audits that once took days can be completed in minutes. In data centers, where racks of servers represent millions of dollars of capital, precise tracking reduces ghost assets and improves utilization across the fleet.
See Xemelgo in action tracking IT Assets.
Supply chains are only as strong as their weakest handoff. The moment a shipment leaves one facility and hasn't yet arrived at the next, it enters a blind spot. Xemelgo's shipment tracking brings the transparency of consumer parcel tracking into internal and B2B supply chains. HISCO implemented Xemelgo's vendor-managed inventory solution to extend real-time visibility across both internal operations and customer sites, enabling a grab-and-go model that dramatically improved service levels and reduced emergency orders.
Watch Xemelgo's RFID Order verification solution in action.
Utilities, telecom, public service, government organizations, and field service teams manage equipment across trucks, job sites, and miles of territory, from tools and spare parts to assets like poles and transformers. RFID brings real-time visibility to the field, helping teams track what’s on each truck, locate equipment quickly, and reduce loss and redundant purchases. What was once scattered and hard to manage becomes visible and accountable.
We didn't plan to be in half the industries we're in. Our customers and partners brought us there because the underlying challenge is universal.
Every organization that manages physical things, equipment, inventory, tools, samples, vehicles, documents, containers, shares the same problem: the massive gap between what a system says and what's actually true on the ground.
Xemelgo and RAIN RFID closes that gap. Construction sites, universities, government facilities, oil & gas operations, food & beverage production. With 43 billions RFID tags shipped last year alone, the cost of RFID is now low enough and the Xemelgo platform flexible enough that the ROI exists everywhere.
If your team manages physical assets, inventory, shipments, or work orders, Xemelgo and RAIN RFID can help. Start with a starter kit deployed in an afternoon, or scale to enterprise-wide multi-site visibility. Either way, we've got you.