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Make and Move Goods at the Speed of Demand
With ever-changing production goals and tighter timelines, you need easy-to-use solutions that elevate quality and drive production performance, now and into the future. Inspired by the demands of floor operations and built with field-proven innovation, Zebra's fixed industrial scanning and machine vision solutions are designed to eliminate errors, increase performance, enhance yields, and meet compliance requirements. Easy to set up, deploy and run all devices on a single platform and keep
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May 11th 2023
Automation or Worker Augmentation?
Even while automation and artificial intelligence are evolving at an exciting rate, the ROI model for businesses looking to boost productivity quickly may not work. Full automation is not always an option due to the time and money required for automation as well as the limitations of relatively simple application areas.Augmentation may be defined as the notion that human labor can be significantly improved by clever tools specifically adapted to enhancing human activity, historically beginning w
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Oct 20th 2022
70th Anniversary of the Barcode
In 1952, a pair of Drexel Institute of Technology graduate students patented a method for instant electronic recall of product information based on patterns of lines of varied widths. The barcode is still an enduring icon of technology that has endured the test of time seventy years later.In 1948, the president of a grocery store chain visited Drexel in the aim of utilizing the university's technical expertise to develop a method for reading product data during the checkout process. Card reading
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Apr 21st 2022
Is Perfect Print-and-Apply Workflow Dependent on Machine Vision?
Yes, if you want a completely automated and compliant process. Learn how to evaluate label presence, positioning, quality, and accuracy with this technology.Trust but double-check.They claim it's the easiest way to avoid getting into trouble, especially if you're a manufacturer, warehouse operator, or other downstream supply chain organization that has to adhere to a slew of industry, government, and consumer regulations. So you teach folks how to check every item and completed good going off th
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Mar 22nd 2022