Changing the Game with MotionWorks Sports Solution

We know Zebra Technologies best as the industry leader in barcode-printing and RFID technology, as its identification and tracking solutions have been deployed in a surprising range of applications. Still, some applications are just more exciting than others, especially when they impact enterprises about which we’re as rabidly fanatical as football, basketball, baseball, soccer and…

Are you Spending Too Much Time & Money on Your Warehouse Processes? Reduce Manual Processes.

It is highly likely that you spend a significant amount of time trying to come up with ways in which you can boost worker productivity without taxing the worker or the company’s capital expenditures.  Many organizations are now using wireless scanning devices, in partnership with a warehouse management system (WMS) to bring real‐time computing and…

Reducing Downtime with the Right Bar Code Scanning or Mobile Device

Many companies are working to get every bit of use out of their existing equipment in their warehouse operations, while trying to reduce overhead costs at the same time.  As a result, this has forced an awareness of the importance of support and maintenance services to keep data collection equipment in good working order, and…

The Zebra Technologies User Guide to Lean Manufacturing

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…

Which Came First, the Bar Code or the Label?

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,…

Bringing Bar Code Automation to Your Business

  It’s clear that the advent of the bar code has simplified our lives – we can check-in at airports, see a movie, and pay for lunch just by showing the clerk the bar code on our phone. We’re reducing our footprint more and more each day – when was the last time you wrote…

Warehouse or Greenhouse? Go Green with Paperless Operations.

The main objective of ‘going green’ is that it’s good for the environment, but when it comes down to it; businesses generally have their focus on creating greater efficiencies throughout the organization. Paperless environments are important to all facets of the business, but one area that would benefit greatly is the warehouse. Consider the following…

Asset Tracking 101

The first step in understanding asset management is defining “asset”. Not to be confused with inventory, an asset is a permanent item that an organization uses as part of their business. This could include any number of items, such as: Computers / Printers Filing Cabinets Office Furniture Equipment / Tools / Machinery Vehicles Asset tracking…