Facial Authentication for Manufacturing Facilities
Alcatraz stops badge sharing at plant floors, vehicle gates, and cash rooms with facial authentication, replacing failing legacy readers. Production doesn't stop. Neither does security.
Stop badge sharing and insider threats
Badges get shared, and unvetted people end up with access they shouldn't have, and cash rooms and other high-value areas are exactly where that risk shows up. Alcatraz confirms exactly who's entering with facial authentication, so a shared or borrowed credential no longer opens the door.
Frictionless access at vehicle gates and the plant floor
Truck gates and plant entrances create bottlenecks, especially with a contract and variable workforce cycling through every shift. Alcatraz clears vehicles and personnel at walk-speed, keeping production moving without slowing down for badge checks.
Built for the plant floor
On a plant floor, presenting a badge at every door isn't always practical, and that friction adds up across every shift. Alcatraz authenticates by face alone, so there's nothing to present, swipe, or misplace at the door.
Protected manufacturing access points
Truck and pedestrian gates
The plant boundary lives outdoors, and so does Rock X: sub-second authentication at pedestrian gates, fence-line turnstiles, and dock-side doors, rain or shine. Shift changes flow at walking pace and the gate log records verified individuals.
Production floor
On the plant floor, hands carry tools and PPE is part of the uniform, so digging out a badge is an interruption repeated hundreds of times a day. Workers walk up and are verified in under a second, so doors nobody props open stay controlled all shift.
Regulated zones
Quality holds and customer audits reach the same question: who was in that area, and when. Badge plus face at regulated zones makes every entry an immutable, person-level record, so the plant answers in minutes.
Control rooms and tool cribs
Control rooms and tool cribs hold the equipment and systems the line depends on. Entry is limited to enrolled operators and maintenance staff, and tailgating events arrive with video your safety team can act on.
Biometric Access Control for Manufacturing
Alcatraz secures plant floors, vehicle gates, and cash rooms with live facial authentication, real-time tailgating detection, and centralized management.
Why biometrics in the plant
Cards get shared at the gate to save a walk, and shift changes bring dozens of workers through the same door at once, so nobody questions the follower. Alcatraz authenticates by face instead, a credential that can't be lent, cloned, or left in a truck, and catches the tailgater in real time.
Proof from industrial environments
Air Products
Air Products, a global industrial gases company, runs Alcatraz facial authentication at sensitive facilities. Industrial gas operations combine hazardous processes, regulatory oversight, and heavy contractor traffic, the same conditions manufacturing security leaders manage every day, and the deployment holds under them.
A multi-plant manufacturer
A manufacturer rolled Alcatraz across plant gates and regulated interior zones after a customer audit questioned access attribution. Perimeter entries are now verified individuals, turnaround contractors are enrolled and expired on schedule, and audit responses that took days of badge-log reconstruction now take one report.
Scale across industry
Alcatraz protects more than 5 million employees across Fortune 100 companies, critical infrastructure, and data centers, with 91% customer satisfaction, and as of the April 2026 Series B announcement, new-customer growth was 200% year over year.
Privacy-first by design for manufacturing
Privacy is built into the architecture. End-users opt in before enrollment, authentication happens on-device, and no biometric data is ever stored or transmitted, so Alcatraz helps you stay ahead of BIPA, CCPA, GDPR, and other privacy regulations worldwide.
FAQs
How does Alcatraz stop badge sharing on the plant floor?
It makes the face the credential, and a face can't be lent, shared, or cloned. The door opens only for the verified, enrolled person, so a borrowed badge no longer grants access it shouldn't.
We have trucks lined up at the gate during shift change, will Alcatraz slow that down?
No. Alcatraz authenticates drivers without requiring them to stop or step out of the vehicle, and Rock X is rated for outdoor use (IP66/IK8, -40°F to 150°F), so it's built to handle the same gate traffic that used to bottleneck.
Does Alcatraz work with a variable or contract workforce that changes frequently?
Yes. Enrollment and de-enrollment happen quickly, so plants with rotating shifts, seasonal staff, or contract workers can keep access current without manually managing badges for every worker coming and going.
Can Alcatraz secure high-value areas like cash rooms or restricted storage?
Yes. Alcatraz adds a second authentication factor and a complete audit trail at your highest-value or highest-risk areas, so you know exactly who entered and when, closing the gap badge-only systems leave for internal theft.
How does Alcatraz prevent the kind of internal theft that happens at high-value areas like cash rooms?
Alcatraz confirms exactly who enters a cash room or other high-value area and creates a timestamped record of every entry, so a shared badge or an unverified visitor can no longer explain away a loss.
Workers on our floor often have their hands full, which makes presenting a badge awkward. Does that matter with Alcatraz?
No. Alcatraz authenticates by face alone, so there's nothing to dig out, swipe, or hold up to a reader, even when hands are full.