Traceability and visibility are crucial measures for your manufacturing operation and production line. Proper traceability and visibility increase efficiency in the production line by catching defects before they leave the plant, thus reducing recall costs and effects. Without complete visibility, traceability systems will fail to report inaccuracies.

In fact, 69% of companies do not have total visibility over their supply chains, which leads many scrambling to prove everything is up to code during audits and inspections. When defects are identified in a product, organizations need to sort through mounds of data to track and trace raw materials. Otherwise, they may be facing a mass recall. These errors can cost your business millions of dollars, but the good news is that they are avoidable.

Effective tracking and locationing technologies empower manufacturing facilities to deliver fast, accurate, and quality service that secures efficiency for the whole supply chain. See how in our video:

Ensure Proper Tracing and Accurate Visibility with Barcodes, Inc.

Proper tracing and accurate visibility are key components to the well-being of manufacturing plants. Barcodes, Inc. ensures that your manufacturing plant is up to date with integrated solutions. Here are some ways proper tracing and visibility can impact your business.

1. Streamline cause analysis – Having access to the data on your products enables manufacturers to dig deep and find the root cause of problems. Identify and solve problems faster to minimize impact.
2. Consistent improvement – Once you are able to see how parts and products move through lines, it’s easier to see where improvement is needed. Knowing where and when bottlenecks and delays occur makes real-time optimization possible.
3. Enhance your value stream – Since traceability and visibility monitors how your products move through your manufacturing process, it also helps with value stream mapping. Equipped with detailed product genealogy records, manufacturers gain supply chain visibility, which provides your operation the ability to see the bigger picture.
4. Quality and engagement – Part traceability along the entire production line can also help find key points where quality check-ups should be added. It also increases accountability and engagement on the shop floor.
5. Simple real-time tracking – Easy-to-use technologies such as Zebra’s locationing hardware simplify on-the-fly tracking of your high demand inventory, by digitally connecting data to your centralized management system. This means workers spend less time looking through files and reports for faster and more accurate audits.

Download our brochure to see more ways effective tracking enhances the production floor.

Contact us today to learn more about RFID technology designed to maximize traceability and visibility in your manufacturing plant.

Extreme environments won’t hinder your operations with Zebra’s VC8300 vehicle-mounted computer. With an ultra-rugged design, the device withstands just about anything a warehouse. 

Zebra’s VC8300 is the ultimate ultra-rugged Android vehicle-mounted computer with both keyboard and touchscreen capabilities. The VC8300 can go everywhere your operators need to go, inside the warehouse, out in the yard, on the loading dock, and even in the freezer. With the VC8300, you can re-use all of your existing accessories, minimizing the cost to upgrade. Its 8-inch display provides plenty of space for graphics-intensive, interactive applications, while best-in-class display resolution and brightness ensure easy viewing in any lighting condition. 

Since the same platform is shared with Zebra’s rugged handheld and wearable mobile devices, any worker can use any device with practically no training, providing the flexibility to deploy and redeploy workers to address changing workloads.

Zebra Technologies designs products to support a variety of industrial business needs. The VC8300 drives productivity with:

• Android Migration Simplicity – Run your Terminal Emulation (TE) apps, right out of the box.
• Advanced WiFi Technologies  – Extended WiFi range and Bluetooth 5.0 with twice the speed.
• Ultimate Flexibility and Convenience – Mount in virtually any material handling vehicle and adjust on the spot
• Ultimate Ultra-Rugged Design – Ready for all environments, including extreme cold or heat and easy to hear in even the loudest environments.

Once you realize the power of the VC8300, you won’t turn back.

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Rugged, versatile, and adaptable, Zebra delivers high performance vehicle-mounted computers to withstand any warehouse environment. Contact us today to see how you can bring a new level of mobility to your growing business.

The Honeywell CT60 XP mobile computer provides real-time connectivity to business critical applications. For fast data capture in a durable, long-lasting form factor, consider the CT60 XP. Used in the field or in store, Honeywell’s CT60 XP offers excellent uptime and productivity.

Built on the Mobility Edge platform, the CT60 XP mobile computer has an integrated, repeatable, and scalable approach based on a common hardware and software platform. This approach means fewer integration challenges without sacrificing security, reliability, or performance.

Relying on many devices across the enterprise introduces time- and cost-intensive complexities. The CT60 XP mobile computer speeds up provisioning, certification, and deployment. The CT60 XP’s product lifecycle works across five Android versions. It’s also Android Enterprise Recommended (AER). AER, a validation led by Google, helps organizations select, deploy and manage Android devices and services with ease.

The CT60 XP mobile computer keeps workers connected and productive all day long. Large file transfers, video streaming, and quick remote access to business applications are some of the best in the industry. And the CT60 XP has enough battery power to last an entire shift. Fast, accurate FlexRange scanning is possible, even on the most damaged barcodes.

How rugged is the CT60 XP? It withstands accidental drops and falls, yet remains lightweight for comfortable, everyday use. The CT60 XP’s 118 mm (4.7 in) Corning Gorilla Glass 5 touchscreen display is easy to read inside and outside. The touchscreen also supports finger, glove, or stylus input.

Honeywell CT60 XP Features and Benefits

• Processor: 2.2 GHz Qualcomm® Snapdragonâ„¢ 660 octa-core
• Operating System: Each Android version guaranteed from 7.1 to at least 11/R, committed support for Android 12 and 13 pending feasibility
• Memory: 3 GB/4 GB DDR4 RAM, 32 GB Flash
• Display: 118 mm (4.7 in) High Definition (1280 x 720) bright color LCD with backlight, outdoor readable, optically bonded to touch panel, oleophobic fingerprint rejection
• Storage Expansion: User-accessible microSD card up to 512 GB (SDXC/SDHC/SDIOcompliant)
• Battery: Li-Ion, 3.6 V, 4040 mAh with integrated battery diagnostics
• Connectivity: Cellular Radio, Advanced LTE, WLAN, Bluetooth, Integrated NFC

The Granit XP series of wired and wireless scanners are available in Standard Range (SR) and Extended Range (XR) versions. The SR will eventually replace the Granit 1910i and 1911i, and the XR establishes a new category of scanner that can scan equally as well up close as it can far away. The Granit XP is compatible with existing Granit accessories.

The Granit XP series offers best-in-class durability, premium scanning speed (even on low quality barcodes), and a portfolio of products that provide compelling solutions for the most common applications in warehouse, retail, T&L, and manufacturing environments.

Contact us today if you have any questions or would like to receive a Honeywell CT60 XP custom quote.

The RJS Inspector 5000 is the industry’s most flexible and cost effective ISO/ANSI method barcode verifier. Extremely easy to use, simply point and shoot the I5000 barcode verifier to analyze the essential verification parameters. Additionally, the RJS Inspector 5000 can decode ISO/ANSI and percent of decode information.

This unique, powerful dual mode barcode verifier supports popular linear symbologies. Access common data points such as store and print capability, multiple scan averaging, and sub-symbology choices through a seven-button user interface. Analysis information appears instantaneously on a large color LCD. In order to keep up with the latest standards, free firmware upgrades can be downloaded and installed for the lifetime of the RJS I5000.

Key Features

• Point and shoot decodability only verification method (Requires CR2 or CR3 scanner)
• ISO 15416 and ANSI X3.182 verification method (Requires optional Auto Optic scanner)
• Auto-Optic scan head allows menu selections for four aperture sizes and two light wavelengths
• Detailed data content and bar code encode testing and results information
• Auto-detects common symbologies
• Bidirectional scanning
• Large color LCD display
• Viewable Scan Reflectance Profile with color coded modulation, decodability, and defects
• Narrow bar width calculator
• Integrated lithium ion battery

The patented Auto-Optic scanner is the industry’s most flexible ISO/ANSI method verifier. Key features include a patented Auto-Optic scan head that allows for eight optical arrangements settable via menu selection. This includes four aperture sizes and two wavelengths of light. Repeatability between units makes the Inspector 5000 an ideal choice for standardizing ISO/ANSI methods throughout your organization.

If needed, a detailed hard copy printout can be produced from the Inspector 5000 using an optional direct thermal printer. Inspection data can transferred to any Windows PC. Once transferred the inspection data can be saved or printed to any standard Window printer or exported to a spreadsheet like Microsoft Excel for analysis.

The RJS Inspector 5000 barcode verifier is the perfect choice for high-volume, busy industrial environments. Contact us today for more information about the I5000.

Introducing the next era of four-inch desktop thermal printers from Brother. The TD-4550DNWB is Brother’s latest and greatest direct thermal barcode and label mobile printer with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. The TD-4550DNWB brings users improved operational efficiency with easy to use, continuous, high speed label printing.

Built with precision in mind, the TD-4550DNWB delivers the right level of performance, quality, and integration at an incomparable value. From inventory and shipping to barcode and shelf labeling, users can efficiently and affordably produce the labels they need, with the dependability and support that Brother delivers. The desktop printer offers the most common sizes of shipping labels as well as the ability to create custom size labels. Given this, productivity can increase while users effortlessly create any type of label they need. Some examples include shipping labels, carton labels, pallet identification labels, and quality control labels.

Designed for the user, the TD-4550DNWB desktop label printer has an intuitive touchscreen with integrated Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity that eliminates the need of cables for the network. With automatic media calibration, the length and width of the users’ media is calculated making the process for printing barcodes effortless. The printers’ state-of-the-art drop-in roll, spindle-less design helps make loading easy with existing or standard converted media. With the Brother TD-4550DNWB, experience fast spindle-less media loading, Windows compatibility, ZPL II emulation, intuitive design software, and Brother template mode. Given that the Brother TD-4550DNWB is fully network ready, the printer can be seamlessly integrated into your current systems. With the printers’ wide range of accessories available, including a peeler and cutter, users can customize the device to their specific labeling requirements.

Key Features:

• Up to 6ips fast print speed matched with compatibility and connectivity options
• 300 dpi. Prints clean, crisp text and accurate scanning barcodes
• Easily integrate into existing and future workflows in warehouse or manufacturing
• USB 2.0, Ethernet LAN, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth
• Labeler peeler and automatic cutter options available
• Backed with an industry leading 2-year Premier Limited Warranty

The Brother TD-4550DNWB label printer gives increased efficiency for labelling applications in demanding, high-volume industries. Contact us today for more information on how the Brother TD-4550DNWB desktop label printer can increase operational efficiency in your warehouse.

Customer expectations have shifted drastically, reshaping today’s storefronts to deliver faster service, consistent product availability, and bolstered customer satisfaction. As a result, retail-ready technologies must now work harder and faster to keep storefronts ahead of demands. Complex workflows can no longer be tolerated, which is why high-demand storefronts such as discount stores are equipping their teams with enterprise-ready mobile devices. As part of an end-to-end mobility solution, next-generation mobility can increase worker performance and meet high demand without overwhelming store associates.

Turning mobility into profitability

Designed to sustain productivity in fast-paced environments, newer enterprise-grade devices such as Zebra’s line of mobile computers and printers streamline workflows to enable…

1. Quicker shelf replenishment – Out-of-stocks are one of the top drivers of lost sales. To prevent empty shelves from driving customers away, mobile devices can function as both scanners, computers, and communicators, allowing employees to quickly locate dwindling stock in real-time and replace products. 
2. Enhanced cybersecurity – If a device is connected to a network, it is vulnerable to cyberattacks. Consequently, modernized mobile devices running on Android are equipped with higher security measures to ward off unauthorized users from accessing sensitive data such as payment information.  
3. Faster frictionless checkout – The checkout lane is one of the most critical foundations of the customer experience. Intelligent scan engines can help reduce wait times by ensuring more successful first-time scans in less time both at the checkout lane and for curbside pickup.

Download our brochure to discover how expert insight can empower your discount store to surpass expectations. For more information on deploying versatile technologies into your storefront, contact Barcodes, Inc. here.

Android smartphones and mobile computers have become the standard in today’s workplace operations. It’s common for Smartphones to be chosen over enterprise mobile computers because of the lower price. When choosing the smartphone, however, you’re also risking the device being unable to withstand tough working conditions. Moreover, scanning through the camera is slow and unreliable which can lower efficiency. Introducing Unitech‘s 6-inch EA630 rugged mobile smartphone. You get the best of both worlds with smartphone level pricing, features and form factor with the durability and high-performance scanning of a mobile computer. Built for portability, the compact EA630 is optimal for increasing efficiency for applications in the retail, hospitality, and light-duty field service.

The Unitech EA630 provides the look and feel of a smartphone but adds the many powerful features ideal for workers on-the-go. Capture dirty or scratched barcodes with ease with the EA630’s integrated 2D imager. The device has an integrated HF/NFC RFID reader/writer, GPS, and a high resolution 16MP camera. The EA630 can withstand a 1.2 m drop as standard and 1.5 m drop with the boot case. The rugged smartphone is equipped with Gorilla Glass 6 and a 9H screen protector, a long-life 4,000mAh battery, and the Snapdragon 636 processor.

Key Features:

• 6 inch rugged smartphone with a screen-to-body ratio of over 80%
• Android 10 OS with GMS & AER Certification
• All-In-One functionality: 2D Imager, HF/NFC and 16MP camera
• Rugged: Corning Gorilla Glass 6 touch display, IP65 rated, and 1.2M drop (1.5M with boot case)
• Long-lasting removable 4000mAh battery
• Support Bluetooth 5 / dual bands WLAN with fast roaming / 4G LTE
• Support MDM Software Solutions and utilities such as AirWatch, SOTI, Ivanti Wavelink, and MoboLink.

The Unitech EA630 has a wide range of enterprise accessories that extend the functionality of your device. Seamlessly switch between mobile and desktop work with the optional dock with display port. Other accessories include a hand strap, boot case, 9H glass screen protector, 1-slot and 4-slot charging cradles, gun grip, stylus and UHF RFID gun grip. Unitech suite of software utilities including MoboLink and StageGo enable fast configuration and a range of MDM functionality.

With the Unitech EA630, the possibilities are endless. Contact us today to take your mobile agility and productivity to the next level.

Today’s mobile consumers are demanding greater convenience, faster transactions and more personal service. Expand your POS capabilities to deliver new value-added services and faster transaction times with OmniLink smart solutions. Epson‘s OmniLink solutions can allow your restaurant to easily accept online orders without having to replace or upgrade your POS software. With Epson’s OmniLink printers, print receipts at pickup stations, receive the order directly to the kitchen, and improve accuracy with a personalized label per order.

Designed for the next-generation retailer with enhanced customer service in mind, OmniLink POS Solutions deliver cloud services and the ability to print from any mobile device. Thanks to online ordering, customers manage to avoid long waiting periods and can enjoy a hassle-free experience. With the benefit of being able to order their meals online, customers have the freedom to order from any place at any time without pausing everything and placing an order by phone. Online ordering provides restaurants the opportunity to drive more business. As consumers shift online, you don’t just simplify the lives of your customers, but you also establish that your business is able to keep up with the competitor market. When it comes to serving your customers, it’s important to reach the right people in the right places and at the right time. With Epson OmniLink POS solutions, you can redefine the customer experience.

Choose from a wide range of products, specially designed to enhance your online ordering system. Revolutionize the world of online ordering with Epson POS solutions. From the TM-m30II-h to the TM-L90II LFC and all OmniLink models in between, you can streamline the online ordering process and expedite order fulfillment. No matter the application, size or requirements, Epson’s got your covered. Download our infographic to help you choose the model that best fits your needs.

To learn more about online order printing with Epson, contact us today.

Driving operational efficiency is a top priority for all businesses, big and small. Honeywell’s broad array of printing consumables are designed to meet any need, whether for healthcare, retail, or inventory and asset tracking. With Honeywell printing supplies, there’s no shortage of options to choose from.

If operations aren’t efficient, you could be losing time and money. Designed to simplify operations and reduce cost of ownership, Honeywell’s labels, tags, receipts, ribbons, and wristbands can support a variety of applications from mild to harsh environments. With these consumables offered as stocked solutions, you can easily replenish your materials as needed, keep your teams mobilized and get better results.

• Duratherm Receipt Paper – A direct thermal paper that provides excellent print quality. Well-suited for most general receipt applications, most notably for use in portable thermal printers.

• Duratherm Wristband -  The Duratherm wristbands are recommended for healthcare and provide the positive identification hospitals need for maximum patient safety. The full-coverage thermal print coating enables high quality printing on the entire length of the band, thus eliminating the need to reposition a sleeping patient just to scan their band.
• Duratherm II Label – A general purpose direct thermal paper label that delivers high-quality, cost-effective printing. Duratherm II is recommended for most general use applications where exposure to chemicals and moisture is not anticipated.
• Duratherm III Label – A top-coated direct thermal paper label that delivers high-quality printing and enhanced durability. Duratherm III is recommended for applications where high humidity, moisture contact and surface abrasion are concerns.
• Duratherm NIR Label – A premium direct thermal paper label engineered to deliver high-contrast images and enhanced durability. Duratherm III NIR is targeted for use in applications with challenging barcode scanning requirements and is well-suited for high-speed sortation applications.
• Duratherm II Tag - A general purpose paper tag providing high-quality, cost-effective printing. Duratherm II Tag is recommended for applications where labeling is not suitable. This product resists curling, even in high humidity environments.
• Duratran II Label – A paper label coated thermal transfer label that exhibits excellent print quality. Offered with a variety of adhesive options, recommended for applications with moderate abrasion, heat, or sunlight is present.

• Duratran II RFID Label – The flexible RFID smart labels provide a versatile architecture that can be used in open or closed loop environments. These labels can be deployed with confidence to meet a broad range of customer requirements including thermal transfer and direct thermal printing.

Contact us and find out how you can save on your consumables, we can help you find the consumables you need and get you the efficiency you are looking for!

Honeywell’s Granit XP scanners expand capabilities and redefine ultra-rugged scanning. Engineered to persevere after the impact of 10-foot drops and 3.3 foot tumbles from loading docks, fork trucks, and picking trucks, the Granit XP scanners deliver indestructible durability. The scanners embody best-in-class 7,000 tumble specification and IP67 sealing which ensures Granit XP scanners will be ready to work for the long term.

Barcodes boost efficiency in the world of data entry, maximizing productivity in your operations. However, damaged and low quality barcodes can slow down transactions. Due to low quality printing or damage during handling in the warehouse/DC and industrial space, bad labels commonly occur. Built on Honeywell’s next generation imaging platforms, Granit XP ensures that otherwise challenging labels do not hinder your process. The Granit XP models offer high-durability, extreme performance scanning for standard range operations. Created for applications where high speed scanning is needed to maximize productivity, and where durability is non-negotiable for low total cost of ownership, the Granit XP scanners offers the optimal solution.

Features & Benefits:

• Built to survive harsh treatment including 3 m (10 ft) drops, 7,000 1 m (3.3 ft) tumbles, operating temperatures from -30°C to 50°C (-22°F to 122°F) and IP67 sealing
• Granit provides extreme performance scanning, even on damaged and low-quality barcodes.
• Honeywell Operational Intelligence software delivers on-demand scan insights, enabling higher employee productivity and throughput.
• The Honeywell Scanner Management Utility (SMU) creates a holistic solution that automates how you deploy and update the scanners in your environment.

The Granit XP family of scanners have scanning solutions that cater to varying needs. Due to a one-megapixel sensor, 800mhz processer and improved firmware, the Granit XP 199Xi SR provides superior barcode reading performance. Inversely, with FlexRange imaging technology, you can expect ultra-fast scanning from the Granit XP 199Xi XR in tasks requiring barcode scanning from contact to 33 feet. Whether you need standard range or extended range, wired or wireless, Honeywell’s Granit XP scanners will exceed all of your scanning expectations.

Contact us today to choose the Granit XP scanner right for you.