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….

Barcode Scanning And Weight Loss: What Is The Connection?

One Sunday, I was watching the Travel Channel’s show Mysteries at the Museum, and lo, and behold it was about the first barcode. Now that I’m an “expert” on barcode history, I can tell you that barcodes first came on the scene back in the late 1960s and early 1970s. At first barcodes were developed…

Solving the IoT “Basket of Remotes” Problem

My neighbor called from work recently to ask, first, if I was home and, if so, would I check to see if she’d left her curling iron plugged in. She’s a nurse who works a night shift, and the “would you check my …” call has become such a recurring theme that she long ago…