Fiduciary Carton Tracking in Processing Facilities without an ASRS
24 June 2026
Focus area: Advanced manufacturing
Program stream: Advanced manufacturing
Project number: 2025-1113
JBS Australia, in partnership with the University of Adelaide and with AMPC co-funding, undertook research to solve a long-standing problem in meat coldstores: accurately identifying and locating individual cartons and pallets in facilities that do not have an Automated Storage and Retrieval System.
Carton-level visibility underpins stock rotation, on-time despatch, export shelf-life compliance and order-fulfilment accuracy.
This work was designed to help red meat processors operating conventional (non-ASRS) coldstores, for whom RFID has repeatedly proven unreliable. The results will guide JBS’s next phase of development and inform the wider industry on a deployable, interference-resistant tracking approach.
