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Maintain Process Rigor in Automotive Inspections

December 6, 2019
Honeywell Voice
Efficient inspection is critical to a variety of functions throughout the automotive industry. Technicians need tools to guide them through a checklist of tasks while allowing them to provide feedback and verification at every step along the way. Honeywell Voice automates these meticulous maintenance and inspection processes to help automotive technicians maintain process rigor and automate record keeping.
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Honeywell Voice Delivers 99.8% Picking Accuracy for Pet Product Manufacturer

December 6, 2019
Honeywell Voice
Coastal Pet Products Inc. is a manufacturer and distributor of pet restraints and products in North America. After the company recently transitioned to e-commerce, they needed a way to ensure picking accuracy and productivity, whether shipping direct to a consumer, store or distributor. When use of traditional paper-based picking methods in their DC became increasingly unreliable, operations managers switched to Honeywell Voice to better optimize the company’s DC picking. Voice-directed workflows drastically reduced training times, enabled productivity improvements, and increased picking accuracy to 99.8% — all while giving workers the safety and performance advantages of hands-free, eyes-free workflows.
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Decrease Training Time From Weeks to Hours

December 6, 2019
Honeywell Voice
Patterson Logistics has 14 legacy fulfillment centers that fulfill orders for dental and veterinary clinics, handling a daily average of 25,000 on-demand orders. They needed a solution that could grow with their needs and be implemented in all of their facilities, which required direct integration with an SAP extended warehouse management (EWM) system. As a certified SAP solution, Honeywell Voice met Patterson’s diverse requirements without the need for middleware. After the seamless migration to the SAP EWM system, Honeywell Voice replaced Patterson’s previous cumbersome training and picking processes. Watch now to see how their training process went from weeks to just hours — while delivering improvement accuracy and productivity rates.
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Transition From Paper-based Picking to Voice Automation Delivers Productivity and Accuracy Gains

December 6, 2019
Honeywell Voice
Raleigh Bicycles is Britain’s leading distributor of bicycles and accessories, distributing to retail outlets throughout the U.K. After years of running their warehouse using a paper-based system, they knew it was time to make a change. Honeywell Voice delivered accuracy improvements up to 99.9% while driving productivity, enabling real-time stock control, and reducing training times. Hear from their operations director, IT leader and distribution manager about how Honeywell Voice solutions have transformed their operations.
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Beer Wholesaler Cuts Costs and Increases Efficiency With Honeywell Voice

December 6, 2019
Honeywell Voice
Located in upstate New York, Saratoga Eagle is primarily an Anheuser-Busch wholesaler that serves over 200 partners. With rising diesel fuel and labor costs cutting into their profit margins, they were looking for ways to run their operations more efficiently and decrease costs. Moving into a new facility provided an opportunity to implement Honeywell Voice and create consistency among their picking processes. Even though the implementation took place during their busiest time of the year, they were able to increase accuracy, reduce training times, and grow their bottom line.
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Food Distributor Sees Productivity Soar With Honeywell Voice

December 6, 2019
Honeywell Voice
Supermercados Covirán, the second-largest food distributor in Spain, has been a cooperative of food retailers servicing Spain, Portugal and surrounding areas since 1961. The cooperative needed a solution to help them make the successful transition from primarily a cash-and-carry operating model to distribution. With a logistics partner, the co-op explored more efficient picking support technologies and chose Honeywell Voice and its rugged and ergonomic headsets, microphones and intelligent voice synthesizers. The move enabled its DC workers to enjoy hands-free, eyes-free picking while providing the technology infrastructure to support the company’s new business model.
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European Aviation Leader Chooses Honeywell Voice for Maintenance and Inspection

December 6, 2019
Honeywell Voice
As the first company in the European aviation sector, Lufthansa Technik AG has optimized the maintenance process of auxiliary power units (APUs) using the Honeywell Voice maintenance and inspection solution. Their process requires technicians to assess the external conditions of transport containers and components, and then record their findings in the primary diagnostics. The same process applies to the entire disassembly of each part of the APU, including part numbers. Before installing Honeywell Voice, the process required two mechanics to share the duty of manually checking diagnosis and inputting data into a computer. See how mechanics can now experience the hands-free, eyes-free efficiencies of Honeywell Voice, allowing them to concentrate fully on the task at hand and document activities in real time.
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Solving the Packaging Problem in E-commerce: Linking Products, Processes and Automated Technology

Tuesday, September 17, 2019 12:00 to Tuesday, December 17, 2019 12:00

ON-DEMAND WEBINAR

Internet-based retail has forever changed the way consumers discover, research and purchase a variety of goods and services.  However, as purchasing behavior shifts from brick and mortar to online, retailers are struggling to build and sustain the infrastructure and human capital to keep pace with the rapidly expanding demand.

Specifically, e-commerce operations are continually challenged to meet consumer expectations of faster shipping, lower costs, and improved customer experience amidst tightening labor markets.  Forward-thinking retailers are embracing robotics, automation, and AI solutions to drive direct labor out how goods are received, stored and picked within their distribution centers. Is packaging the unsolvable frontier?

Join us for this free webinar to learn about the various waste sources within a variety of  e-commerce order processing scenarios, explore with us how right-sized packaging, on demand can help your retail facility differentiate its operations to achieve their operational and strategic goals.

Challenges:

  • Current packaging methods add wasteful time and material costs to e-commerce order processing
  • Labor markets are tightening, requiring retailers to streamline order fulfillment processes
  • Consumers are driving retailers to transition to consumer and environment-friendly packaging methods

Solutions:

  • Right-sized packaging reduces damages and waste while improving customer experience
  • Integrated software can reduce operator tasks and automate decision-making
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