RELAY FOR STEEL & METAL MANUFACTURING
On loud, high-risk floors, a missed message is a safety risk.
In the mill, in the yard, and on the finishing line, safety breaks down for one reason: a message that isn’t heard, understood, or acted on in time. Relay is the voice-first platform that keeps every worker safe and connected, in every language, everywhere your team works.
THE THREE PROBLEMS EVERY METAL OPERATION FACES
Your safety risk, your radio pain, and your language barrier are all communication problems.
A missed warning. A worker out of reach. A response that comes too late. Different failures, one root cause. Relay solves all three, from prevention to proof, on the floor and in the yard you already run.
82%
Relay Research, survey of 500 full-time U.S. manufacturing professionals, August 2026.
Safety risk
A warning that isn't heard, understood, or acted on in time.
Radio pain
Legacy radios go quiet below grade, deep in the mill, and at the yard's edge.
Language barrier
A briefing that doesn't land the first time, on a floor of many languages.
HOW IT WORKS
Three jobs, one radio your team already knows.
From the furnace basement to the far corner of the yard, the message gets through.
Legacy two-way radios tend to go quiet where you need them most. 41% of operations report communication problems that disrupt production weekly, and 32% take one to four hours to fix.‡
- Runs over Wi-Fi, multi-carrier cellular, and private 5G and switches between them on its own.
- No repeaters, no FCC licenses, no line-of-sight limits.
- When every worker stays reachable, reliability becomes a safety feature, not just an IT one.
150%
Prevent the incident. Command the response. Prove what happened.
Safety plans break down when a worker is alone in an isolated spot, or a critical message doesn’t reach the right people fast enough. 83% of manufacturing teams improvise because the information they needed was never captured.‡
- Scheduled broadcasts workers must acknowledge for high-risk areas help prevent incidents.
- One-button panic with location and incident codes brings the right people to the right place, fast.
- Timestamped messages and location history give a shared record of what was said and where people were.
6x
When a safety briefing lands the first time, safety and productivity follow.
Many metal operations run many languages on one floor. Pulling a bilingual worker off the job to translate costs time and lands late, and a briefing that isn’t understood the first time is a safety risk.
- TeamTranslate™ delivers real-time translation across 35 languages.
- A briefing reaches every worker in the language they speak.
- Removing the barrier is a safety win, not just a convenience.
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The numbers, from our customers
What changes when your lines run on Relay.
150%
6x
84%
Operational efficiency gains: simple enough to use from the first shift.
Day one
Proof from the floor
The floor sells it better than we can.
“Our EHS team's incident response time decreased by 50% with Relay.”
EHS Leader, Top 4 U.S. Steel Producer
“One of the big things with Relay is emergency situations. With a cell phone you're just texting one person. With Relay, you're getting it out to the whole crew.”
Blaine Cash, Operations Manager, Recycle Management
“The noise cancelling was amazing. On our normal radios, inside some buildings we can't communicate, but with these we could, even in that environment.”
Regional Operations Manager, Leading North American metal recycler
“When interacting with non-English speaking truck drivers, we used to find someone who spoke their language. Now with the translator, we avoid the delays.”
Christian Schultz, Site Manager, Superlite Block Lone Butte
The hardware behind the layer
RelayX: built for the mill floor and the yard.
Two-way radios are tough enough for a mill or scrap yard, but they only carry voice. Reaching for a phone or tablet pulls a worker out of the task. Relay brings both together, voice-first and rugged, so a worker keeps both hands on the job and everything is one button away, and a screen is there when it’s genuinely the better tool.
Audio
Dual 2W speakers (~110 dB) and 3 noise-cancelling mics. Clear in a rolling mill or shredder yard.
Steady Link™
Redundant Wi-Fi and multi-carrier cellular with automatic failover. No repeaters, no FCC licenses.
Battery
Up to 24-hour battery. Covers double shifts without a swap.
IP68 + IP69K durability
MIL-STD 810H and C1D2. Built for heavy dust, extreme heat, and hard drops.
Frequently Asked Questions
Relay is the system of action for physical operations: it captures what your frontline actually says and does, and turns it into action in the systems you already run. Metal operations run loud, and safety depends on whether the right message is heard, understood, and acted on in time. Relay gives frontline teams rugged communication built for loud, spread-out places: clear push-to-talk, real-time translation, broadcasts, panic alerts, incident workflows, and message and location history.
Yes. Dual 2W speakers and three noise-cancelling mics give clear audio in loud spaces, and Relay runs over Wi-Fi and multi-carrier cellular that switch on their own. It keeps working in furnace basements, deep inside mills, and in far corners of a large yard. No repeaters and no FCC licenses required.
TeamTranslate™ gives real-time translation across 35 languages right inside the conversation, so a safety briefing or shift handoff lands in each worker’s own language. It brings the same help to contractors and non-English-speaking drivers at the gate.
One-button panic sends an alert with the worker’s location, and incident codes bring the right responders through the noise. Afterward, timestamped message and location history give one clear source of truth for OSHA, insurance, and root-cause review.
Relay is a cloud-connected platform, not a local radio network. On top of push-to-talk it adds redundant connectivity, real-time translation, location awareness, panic and incident workflows, and a searchable record, on one rugged device. It replaces repeaters, FCC licensing, and the 25%+ of radios lost or broken each year. Fleet Shield® keeps the fleet current.
START WHERE IT MATTERS MOST
See what Relay can do on your floor.
Your safety risk, your radio pain, and your language barrier are all communication problems. Tell us about your operation, and we’ll show you where Relay can have the biggest impact.