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News Release from: Intermec Technologies | Subject: Intermec 750 mobile computers
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 17 November 2006
Intermec improves inventory accuracy at
Lighthouse
Lighthouse for the blind improves inventory accuracy with Intermec mobile devices and Genesta's SyVox
The primary mission of the Lighthouse for the Blind is to create jobs for those living with vision loss The organisation's 25,000 square-foot (2,300m2) St
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 22 Sep 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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With warehouse management and speech recognition technology from Intermec and Genesta, the organisation's blind employees can now locate and pick items to help the company ship hundreds of kits each year.
The new inventory, navigation and picking system, integrated by Primary Marking, combines Intermec 750 mobile computers and SF51 scanners with Genesta's SyVox speech recognition software.
The combination increases productivity without sacrificing the accuracy of scanning.
Primary Marking also developed custom interface software that allows the collected data to go directly into Lighthouse for the Blind's ERP system.
"We needed a warehouse management solution that was completely blind friendly, as ninety percent of our employees are legally blind," said Lighthouse for the Blind IT Manager Mark Adams.
"In the past we could not use blind workers to retrieve raw materials, as some of the kits contain more than 500 items and are large enough to ship on fifteen pallets," Adams said.
"The new Intermec and SyVox system allows our blind employees to locate and pick the items completely by speech," Adams said.
"And the custom software written by Primary Marking feeds the collected information directly into our ERP system, so we achieve greater inventory accuracy".
"We also chose to work with Intermec because of the company's experience in RFID data collection," Adams said.
"Lighthouse for the Blind soon will have to comply with RFID shipping requirements, and Intermec understands that technology and where it is going, so they can take our data collection technology where it needs to be".
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