AUTOMATIC DATA CAPTURE
Special Report
Optimising the information flow
Manufacturing & Logistics IT spoke with many of the leading Automatic
Identification & Data Capture Solutions providers about the current big issues surrounding software and hardware, back-office system integration and the route ahead for further technological development.
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he technology is on a fast evolutionary path and the benefits to end users within manufacturing, logistics and retail environment is compelling.
This report investigates what many of the A-list AIDC/mobile computing solutions providers consider to be the most praise - worthy and effective recent hardware and software innovations. To kick-off Simon Hagenbuch, managing director at Sandpiper, observes that application software for mobile applications is becoming far more sophisticated, with location-based features now being incorporated – including real- time stock enquiries at the nearest outlet, a mobile worker’s current location, nearest mobile worker for task allocation,
navigation and
Robert Hurt, senior director marketing,
EMEA, Intermec.
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loan-worker monitoring. “This leads to enterprises becoming ever more dependent on mobile applications to deliver operational benefits and fiscal efficiencies,” he said. “Therefore system availability is high on the list of priorities for organisations deploying and maintaining mobile applications.” The other significant progression in mobile applications, according to Hagenbuch, addresses these needs by providing device management capabilities right across a corporate or even global population of mobile users. “Functionality now offers not only fast, accurate staging and deployment, but also ongoing remote support and software maintenance; negating the need for mobile devices to be shipped around a territory for fault diagnosis/repair or software upgrades.”
Robert Hurt, senior director marketing, EMEA at Intermec, believes improved software tools and utilities are helping to create a better, quicker and more versatile platform for developers; in turn enabling new, more advanced, applications to be created. “At Intermec we provide a suite of tools and drivers which can be dropped
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into different applications by our diverse network of software development partners,” he said. “Among the key criteria that customers seek are seamless integration into existing systems, ease and willingness to customise a solution to fit their unique requirements and scalability. With capital investment in short supply, options are >>
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