Manufacturing

Successful manufacturing means efficient work-flow and inventory control.

Combine wireless local area network (WLAN) enabled handheld computers, bar code and thermal printing technologies with applications from market-leading Advanced Automation to streamline your manufacturing processes. By creating a more seamless flow of continuous, accurate documentation on materials, parts or machine conditions, you’ll experience fewer errors and improve production. Advanced Automation can help you error-proof your operations to deliver better products faster, reduce waste, control costs and improve customer service.

Still chasing clipboards and job folders?

Your reputation is largely in the hands of “the warehouse guys”. Which means the tools in their hands couldn’t be more important. Make their life easy and you’ll see him picking, stacking and shipping like their life depends on it. Thousands of manufacturers around the world use wireless mobile computers and vehicle mount computers to master their supply chains. To these companies, we are a part of the supply chain itself.

A Few Common Manufacturing Solutions

Work in Process Tracking

- Tracking materials from receipt through production or assembly processes, and ultimately to finished goods, requires a tremendous amount of labor and paperwork. Yet, knowing where in-process materials and orders are is critical to plant efficiency. Using mobile computers or advanced data collection devices, manufacturers can more accurately track the flow of materials through the plant in real-time. Materials and orders are more easily located and your workers can focus on their assigned tasks rather than on searching for missing or misplaced orders.

Labor Tracking

- Without a practical way to track labor hours per task, many manufacturers rely on standard cost estimates or manual tracking processes that can mask true profitability or even have a negative impact on labor productivity. A mobile labor management system allows you to capture and track “true” labor costs at the point of activity, enabling more accurate and competitive pricing as well as a better labor utilization.

Error Proofing

- Utilize mobile technology and data collection systems to validate that all operations and paperwork have been completed to specification. Operators scan pre- and post-operation or process. Any overlooked process, assembly or procedural step can be easily identified and corrected before impacting productivity or requiring costly re-work.

Material Tracking Solutions

- Keep inventory data accurate and up-to-date from the moment your warehouse receives product to the moment it leaves the shipping dock. Track materials as they move through assembly or processing to the finished goods warehouse to fulfill customer orders. With advanced data capture technology such as bar code scanning, RFID and Direct Part Marking you can enable complete product traceability.