The warehouse is a busy place and the best place to start improving efficiencies. This is where our customers see their biggest challenges — bottlenecks, shipping delays, picking errors and inventory mix-ups. It’s a constant flow of materials in and out of the warehouse and the best place to start if you’re considering a wireless…
Zebra Technologies’ recent white paper, Eliminate 7 Wastes from Your Supply Chain with Real-Time Asset Management Solutions, could have just as easily been titled The User Guide to Lean Manufacturing. Like any effective user guide, it identifies specific problems, details solutions to those problems and offers implementation examples. As the title suggests, this guide identifies…
As the challenges of industrial-network applications increase, Advantech’s Industrial Automation Group provides the technology required to meet and exceed those challenges. Case in point: Advantech’s rugged, compact, fast Ethernet switches designed specifically for factory- and machine-automation applications. Options include the full-Gigabit EKI-2728, EKI-2748FI and EKI-2748CI, as well as the 10/100M Ethernet EKI-2548I, EKI-2548SI and EKI-2548MI….
When presented with an opportunity to automate your warehouse operations, what are the chances you’ll be asked, “What’s the ROI?” Not to worry, calculating ROI on process improvements may not seem as daunting as you think. The first step in determining the ROI to improve your warehouse operations is to take a look at your…
From 1999 to 2009, reported incidents of school-related crimes decreased significantly in the U.S. The percentage of students impacted by theft fell from 5.7 to 2.8, while the percentage of those who were victims of violent crimes fell from 2.3 to 1.4. Tragically, homicide was the second leading cause of death among those ages 5…
We humans have been known to work under some decidedly extreme temperature ranges, but using a touch-input panel PC in temperatures as cold as -20°C (-4°F) or as high as +60°C (140°F)? Really? Well, if you’re called upon to work at such extreme temperatures, there’s an Advantech touch-panel solution that will survive those conditions far…
Thank you to Bernard Silver and Joseph Woodland for inventing the very first bar code. It has saved businesses countless dollars, time and energy. When you think about all the processes that go on in many businesses today it’s truly a competitive advantage to have automated processes. Think of things like asset management, inventory management,…
As advances in information technology – and more recently, in mobile connectivity – produce evermore-informed consumers, pricing strategies have, of necessity, become increasingly aggressive. With retailers vying to retain the title of “the store that offers the greatest value,” pricing strategies have evolved from among the more static aspects of retail merchandising into among its…
It was while reading an August 20, 2012, article in The New York Times’ personal-health section that I first became genuinely concerned about CT-scan radiation. Prior to its revelations, who knew? According to that article, “CT scans alone, which deliver 100 to 500 times the radiation associated with an ordinary X-ray and now provide three-fourths…
I’ve written a number of posts on mobile retail marketing in response to Honeywell Scanning & Mobility’s white papers, Retail 2D and Mobile Marketing: Retail’s Next Frontier, and although neither paper mentions it specifically, I’ve found myself repeatedly recommending Honeywell’s Dolphin 70e Black across a range of retail environments. Here’s why: Singularity. This single mobile,…
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