Reviewing and Revitalizing Mobile Service Processes

Honeywell, one of our premier partners, just recently surveyed 260 organizations worldwide, looking to gather information on how they manage and assess their field service processes. Being the data-nut that I am, I’m always looking for the numbers to validate the facts – and these numbers look pretty noteworthy to me. But don’t bother reading…

You Know You Need A Mobile POS Solution When…

The past few weeks, I introduced two blogs discussing the benefits of a mobile computer and a mobile printer in the retail industry. Now it’s time to put this information together and see where specifically a mobile point of sale (POS) solution would have the greatest benefit. Some retailers are best fit for a standalone,…

Mobile Printers at the Hip in Retail

It’s easy to adopt old habits and stick with them – especially when they’re a part of a grand process such as checking out customers in a retail setting. For decades, that process consisted of a standalone computer next to a printer, as customers filed through the – sometimes long – lines to checkout. But…

Zebra Technology Brings RFID, RTLS and Big Data Analytic Experience to Sports

CES (Consumer Electronics Show) wasn’t the only early-2014 tech show to feature wearables: The MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference (SSAC14) was held at Boston’s Hynes Convention Center in February, and it too featured a greater-than-ever emphasis on wearable technology. Although L-Tron partner, Zebra Technologies, is a relative newcomer to sports wearables, the company has a…

ItemPath: The first Cloud Application For Printing Barcode Labels And Tags

ItemPath is an innovative Cloud-based solution for managing inventory and tracking items, goods and assets. It is designed to be accessible from anywhere via a web browser running on top of any operating system in any Internet-capable device. Sounds simple, right? It is – and it is very simple to use. Unfortunately, ItemPath’s developers found that…

Zebra Technologies’ iMZ-Series BYOD-Ready Printers

Now that smartphone penetration is approaching 70% in the U.S. market, far more of us than not show up at work each day with remarkably capable computing and communication tools already in our pockets. These are also the mobile computing devices with which we are already most familiar. After all, they’re usually the only devices…

Zebra: Deploying Zebra Products To Solve Its Own RTLS Challenges

  As much as I love success stories, this one offers a twist I should have seen coming a mile away. Zebra Technologies is an industry leader in Real-Time Locating Systems (RTLS), but what is an industry leader to do when faced with its own RTLS challenges? Zebra operates a 72,000-square foot distribution facility in…

Zebra’s MFWPR-The Path to Peak Supply Chain Performance

International Data Corporation, a worldwide market-analysis provider, estimates current global waste in manufacturing supply chains at $900 billion. Modern supply chains literally involve countless moving targets, each of which must be hit to achieve optimum efficiency. The complexity of delivering on-time, every-time at minimum cost amid constant change can be staggering, if not seemingly impossible….

Zebra and LifeMed ID, A Symbiotic Alliance for Greater Patient Safety

Although Zebra Technologies had long since established its position as a world-class provider of patient-identification tools, it recently strengthened its already formidable patient-ID solutions by entering a strategic alliance with LifeMed ID, Inc. This symbiotic alliance integrates LifeMed ID’s unique Cloud-based patient-authentication systems with Zebra’s secure printers to achieve even greater certainty and efficiency to…

7 Reasons To Implement Zebra Technologies’ RTLS

Wikipedia defines choreography as “The art of designing sequences of movements in which motion, form, or both are specified.” Imagine choreographing a ballet in which the performers are wearing blinders, unable to see their partners until each moves within their narrow fields of view. They have no advance peripheral clues that help them anticipate and…