Auto ID & Data Capture

The DataMan® product line from Cognex offers advanced barcode readers that combine the benefits of image-based readers with the ease of use and cost of laser scanners for your postal, parcel and package sorting operations.

Reading more than one barcode at a time is a challenging application for many manufacturing and material handling engineers. In these applications there is a need to read multiple codes of the same symbology as well as multiple codes of mixed symbologies within one field of view (FOV). Even more difficult is reading one or more codes on multiple sides of a product to verify that the codes match or to output both sides’ read results as one piece of...

The DataMan® product line from Cognex offers advanced barcode readers that combine the benefits of image-based readers with the ease of use and cost of laser scanners for your postal, parcel and package sorting operations.

After recommendations from colleagues and partners who'd worked with them, IRLY looked to PathGuide Technologies, a leading WMS provider for industrial and retail distributors, for a quick implementation. PathGuide's Latitude software is known for automating warehousing and distribution to provide real-time information about inventory - streamlining operations for greater efficiency and overall customer service.

LoBue Citrus based in Lindsay, California, recognized the need to automate its produce traceability program. Formerly, the process was manual, which tied up critical resources and increased the likelihood of error.

This white paper provides a brief overview of laser, inkjet and thermal technologies as they relate to label printing, explains the usage scenarios when each type of printer is most appropriate, and highlights hidden cost and performance considerations for each print technology.

To meet government compliance on food traceability, Washington Fruit sought the help of Pacific-iD and implemented mobile computers, industrial printers, scanners, and vehicle-mounted computers to improve pallet tagging and tracking.

To meet government compliance on food traceability, Washington Fruit sought the help of Pacific-iD. Washington Fruit implemented the Intermec CK3 mobile computer, PM4i industrial printer, SR61 scanner, and CV60 vehicle-mounted computer to improve pallet tagging and tracking.

THIS is the CK3X rugged mobile computer - the latest in a legacy of performance. With best-in-class processing architecture, battery life, scanning, and deployment, the CK3X is fully compatible with the existing CK3 infrastructure of accessories and applications.

This white paper reviews some of the important differences between tablets and purpose-built computers for forklifts, and presents the five key issues that must be considered when assessing tablet computers for forklift operators.

In today’s distribution centers, forklifts are becoming sophisticated information technology hubs.

Five crucial questions to ask and answer as you prepare your industrial environments to take full advantage of today’s rapidly expanding wireless communications opportunities.

How does your IT team today determine your company’s current industrial wireless system needs and assess whether they are being met? When was the last time the wireless network at your industrial sites was upgraded or refreshed – does it lag behind the deployment of new mobile devices or applications?

With suppliers jumping on the RFID bandwagon and more deployments looming on the horizon, the future of RFID remains promising. Here are the market drivers that continue to push ADC/RFID adoption and examples of facilities that are putting it to work.

Sales associates in Lord & Taylor's flagship New York Fifth Avenue store now use RFID to automatically improve display sample inventory processes and visibility, and can attribute a 4% increase in sales to more complete floor displays.

The RFID chatter is getting louder. After conducting successful pilots of item-level RFID initiatives, Walmart, then American Apparel, and now Macy’s, Bloomingdales, Dillards and JCPenney have all announced plans to roll out EPC (electronic product code)-enabled, RFID technology at the item level in their stores this year.

Last year, the market for data capture solutions used in factories, warehouses and logistics applications notched $11.066 billion in sales, according to Massachusetts-based VDC Research Group. While that’s a modest increase over 2010’s estimate of $10.6 billion, the outlook going forward is positive, even in a choppy economy, according to Michael Liard, VDC’s vice president of AutoID.

Lord & Taylor faced an all-too-common retail problem: you can’t sell what you don’t show. In the fast-changing, high-turnover arena of fashion, hot items fly off the shelves – and unless the display floor is quickly and properly stocked, the next potential sales opportunity can fly away, too.

American Apparel was looking for a smarter way to meet their goals and, from what they had learned, item-level RFID looked like precisely the solution they wanted. Given the control the company has over its own manufacturing, distribution and retail operations, the plan was to reap the benefits of RFID not only on the retail floor, but throughout its closed loop supply chain.

Zebra’s WhereNet provided Associated Food Stores (AFS) with wireless, real-time applications for optimizing, locating, tracking, and managing assets across its 600-plus acre distribution center in Farr West, Utah.