Shoreham is a Trust Port handling some 1.75 million tonnes of cargo annually and producing a turnover last year of approx. £9 million. To enable better working practices and to improve accuracy SPF had taken the decision to implement data capture at source using the Datalogic DL9600 hand held terminals using a Radio Frequency network to cover the whole port. The RF network was implemented using industry standard 802.11b components. Using the RF network allowed for real time data validation to be carried out which SPF considered to be essential to their operations.... [more]

Alstom Renovation, a member of the Alstom transport group, is a leading train renovator and provide a host of options in maintenance, renovation and parts services for rolling stock (passenger & freight).Currently Alstom Renovation has five UK sites of which three are using the Cincom manufacturing software solution, with plans to extend to the other sites. All data entry was done manually and it was recognised that this was time consuming and was leading to inaccurate data.... [more]

Aristoc are manufacturers of ladies hosiery. They implemented a MRP system based on the MTMS product provided by Evolution. The main requirement of the system was to validate data to ensure that the information relating to the batches of the products, such as number items in a batch, was recorded at each stage of the process. Aristoc use Intermec T2480 terminals to collect their data.... [more]

Inflite provide services to the aviation industry. Their main requirement was the collection of time and attendance data together with the recording of information related to time spent on jobs... [more]

Kerry provide document storage facilities. The facilities may be in the form of electronically scanned documents or of the physical documents themselves.The system is based on a Microsoft SQL database with the user interface provided using Visual Basic. Each box is given a unique bar-coded identifier. The barcode is read using Symbol Technologies PDT 3100 hand held terminals.... [more]

Banjos contacted George James to see if a system could be provided that would enable the company to track stock and sales information for his fleet of 10 sandwich vans. A system was proposed that was based on hand held terminals that collected the information in a batch mode and then update a Microsoft Access database, this allows the user to produce their own ad hoc reports using either Access’ own reporting facilities or the use of Crystal Reports.... [more]

A major problem for retailers is informing their customers of the price of product on sale.

Traditionally retailers have put the price of the products either on the product itself or on the shelf edge. Both these solutions lead to problems for the retailer. The price sticker peels off the product, the product is misplaced on the shelves or the shelf edge label does not align with the actual product. All leading to customer confusion. [more]