Solutions for Warehousing and Distribution
The common requirements are:
- Rugged housing: something that can take abuse.
- Moderate dirt protection: from dusty environments.
- Reliable input: keyboards and mouse/touch that keep working.
- Reliable operation: remote computer and thin client methods that tolerate interruptions.
- Printer support: bar code label printing at point of manufacture.
- Relocatable: move from job to job as batch processes change.
- Mobile: track loads as they move to support JIT and "absolute piece location tracking".
Choosing a Solution
Choose the Modular Workstation (MWS) line if you need:
- a label printing inventory cart.
- a shipping/receiving station.
- a particularly rugged housing.
- your own brand name (book-size) computer or thin client inside.
- an integrated UPS, e.g. for Windows applications.
Choose the Industrial PC (IPC) line if you need:
- the smallest possible workstation.
- desk mounted industrial workstation.
- a low-cost station with integrated keyboard.
- a built-in thin client at minimum cost.
- higly adjustable workstation position.
- a mobile solution in conventional trucks.
- a NEMA rated display only, no computer.
Choose the Forklift Computer (RWS) line if you need:
- track every product move, on the equipment that moves it.
- track receiving and shipping at the truck dock.
- send timely work instruction directly to the forklift truck.
- reduce incidence of "lost product".
- improve "customer care", tracking of goods in transit.
- reduce theft.
Case Studies (under construction, please check back soon)
- Work instruction, label printing and QC: MWS on trolley base with label printer, operated as a full Windows computer to print labels through 2 printers, accept bar code scanners and connect firewire cameras.
- Forklift tracking system: RWS with 3rd party thin clients tracking every movement of product through manufacturing and in-process material handling. Sample is not from the auto industry, but highly applicable.
