Technology vertical
Asset and inventory tracking for technology companies
Semiconductor and R&D labs, data centers and IT operations run on expensive, shared, constantly moving equipment, and on consumables and returnable items that move just as fast. InThing keeps each one findable, audit-ready and in sync with your systems of record.
Industry problems
Where the register and the lab bench disagree.
R&D instruments, test and measurement gear, prototypes and IT hardware are shared across teams, projects and sites. When nobody can prove an asset exists, projects wait and duplicates get bought.
Data-center and IT teams answer to SOC 2, ISO 27001, SOX and PCI DSS audits across global facilities, while calibration-critical equipment must stay in tolerance and on schedule.
Lab & R&D
Instruments, calibration-critical equipment, prototypes and IP-protected materials.
Data center & IT
Server inventory, IT asset audits and hardware lifecycle across global facilities.
Shared equipment
Reservations by department, project or grant, with usage and downtime recorded.
Consumables
High-value lab consumables and components re-ordered because nobody could find the ones on hand.
Use cases
What technology companies track with InThing.
Each use case page explains the outcomes, workflows, technology fit and proof in detail.
Capital assets & equipment
Lab instruments, IT and data-center hardware, fixed assets and voting equipment: found in seconds, audited in minutes.
Goods & consumables
Finished goods, kanban and MRO consumables, lab supplies and consigned stock, counted without walking the aisles.
Returnable items
Pallets, totes, racks, IBCs, dunnage and rental equipment: shipped complete, tracked while away and recovered.
How InThing applies
Workflows that matter in labs, fabs and data centers.
Location & inventory
Desk, bench, rack or cubicle-level inventory of lab and IT assets.
InVault workflow
Maintenance & calibration
Calibration due dates and history tied to the physical instrument.
InVault workflow
Reservations & checkouts
Shared equipment reserved by department, project or grant.
InVault workflow
Customer story
Technology assets under control.
Applied Materials
The Metal Deposition Products group adopted InThing’s visibility platform with UHF RFID and BLE to track and locate high-value lab equipment and consumables, such as sputtering targets that were re-ordered because nobody could find the ones in storage. Within three months of go-live it had avoided $125,000 in unnecessary purchases, and the solution saves the lab $1M a year.
InThing’s Asset Visibility solution helped us realize our investment by avoiding unnecessary expenditures in less than three months.
Murali Narasimhan, General Manager, Metal Deposition Products Group, Applied Materials
$1Min annual cost savings
$125Kin unnecessary purchases avoided within three months
60 → 5 minto find a sputtering target, with 99% accuracy
600assets across two buildings inventoried in two hours
Compliance & integration
Audit-ready, and in sync with your systems.
- IT & data-center audits
- Server inventory and IT asset audits supporting SOC 2, ISO 27001, SOX and PCI DSS compliance
- Lab & fixed assets
- Automated SOX and ISO audits, with calibration history kept for QA
- Systems of record
- SAP, Oracle, ServiceNow, IBM Maximo, Power BI, REST and webhooks via EAI-Bridge
- InThing security
- InThing has a SOC 2 Type 1 report (2023), available on request under NDA. See Security & trust
Find your asset blind spots
Bring your hardest asset class.
Lab instruments, server rooms or consumables. We’ll show which technology fits and what an audit could look like next quarter.