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,…

Zebra Oil and Gas Location Solutions

The raw products of oil and gas enterprises are fungible commodities that by their very nature resist tracking – bulk products that defy labeling, serialization and, often, even containment. But, that’s not to say that the oil and gas industry doesn’t face challenges common to many others. Strip away its unique end products and what…

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…

IT Takes the Wheel with Remote Device Management

When managing your fleet of scanning devices becomes overwhelming, it’s time to consider remote device management (RDM). For IT administrators, the ability to manage all bar code scanning devices from a single, remote location can be a life saver. For your business, it’s a productivity and profitability enhancer. Let’s face it; scanner management can be…

Potential For Smartphones In Warehouses and Distribution Centers?

Not to give my age away, but the first PCs I recall installing in a commercial workplace were four IBM XTs with Intel’s 4.77 MHz 8088 processor, 256 kB of RAM, 5.25-inch floppies and 20-MB hard drives. Total price tag, including custom software: ~$24,000.00 in mid-80s dollars, or about $50,000.00 in 2011 dollars. Their proud…

L-Tron Hosting First Complimentary Webinar

L-Tron Corporation is pleased to announce an upcoming field mobility webinar, intended to provide valuable information for companies and contractors within the plumbing, heating and cooling industries on the benefits of utilizing field mobility solutions to increase customer satisfaction, return-on-investment (ROI) and field worker productivity.  The webinar will be hosted by Lynn Johnson of L-Tron,…

Streamline Everyday Duties with the Click of a Button

L-Tron Corporation, in conjunction with premier partner, Motorola Solutions, presents one of the toughest, most flexible EDAs on the market, designed to benefit mobile workers who are faced with multiple tasks to complete in limited amounts of time.  Specializing in maximizing workflow efficiency, the MC65 rugged mobile computer provides real-time access to enterprise applications, all…