Addressing Productivity Barriers in the Warehouse

Most warehouses are already utilizing mobile devices in the warehouse aisles to improve productivity and accuracy from picking to shipping. With warehouses already reaping the maximum benefits out of their mobility solutions, what can warehouse managers do to obtain the needed increase in productivity?

Zebra’s innovation and design team took this issue as a challenge to innovate the traditional warehouse mobile computer. This white paper details the journey through key research insights and subsequent Human Factors studies that revealed opportunities to create a new device design that addressed all three tenets of Human Factor initiatives: enhancing task flow and productivity, maximizing user comfort and reducing the risk of user injury.

Through a combination of observational research to understand customer needs, usability testing to improve ease of use, ergonomic evaluation to minimize the physical stresses associated with task execution and user centered industrial design, the resulting TC8000 Touch Computer stands alone in a new category of warehouse mobile devices. in the following pages, you’ll find the metrics and test results that prove that the revolutionary product design of the TC8000 truly does deliver revolutionary productivity gains — an average of one hour per worker, per shift.