Monday, December 21, 2009

Baldwin Foods Looks at Quality with Rugged Mobile Computing with LXE

Baldwin Richardson Foods, headquartered in Frankfort, Illinois, with accomplishment ability in Macedon, New York, produces bakery fillings, syrups, sauces, toppings, acknowledgment mixes, condiments packets, and added aliment products. “Our operations were all manual. We capital to automate and had looked into altered bar coding systems over the years, but annihilation was the appropriate fit,” says Craig Czajka, the IT administrator at Baldwin Richardson Foods.

Mobile abstracts accumulating systems accommodate real-time afterimage for accumulation traceability, raw abstracts levels, and accomplished appurtenances inventory. Innovative vehicle-mounted, hand-held, and wearable adaptable computers have to be dependable, tough, and reliable. Wireless computers extend accumulated networks to adaptable workers in ambitious altitude and alone asperous adaptable computers drive down costs and advance chump satisfaction.

Based in Norcross, Georgia, LXE offered Baldwin Richardson Foods a abounding ambit of turnkey services, including radio integration, activity and accession management, arrangement design, abstruse support, and adjustment services. LXE helped the aggregation alteration to real-time afterimage and accretion ascendancy over raw materials, assembly status, and account transfers, warehousing, and administration to customers. “Bar coding doesn’t fix things, it just makes things faster,” says Czajka. “We had to fix our processes first. The ability LXE had about alive with our Ross ERP arrangement was actual admired to us. Some of the added vendors we looked at had started to abutment Ross, but they weren’t there yet.”

LXE helped Baldwin Richardson Foods architecture a wireless arrangement and adaptable abstracts accumulating systems to abutment new processes that accommodate real-time afterimage for accumulation traceability, raw abstracts levels, and accomplished appurtenances inventory.

Previously, assembly was anxiously controlled, but the administration and accumulator of accomplished articles relied on fork-truck drivers application paperwork. Raw abstracts were delivered to “cook decks” area cooks manually recorded the capacity and amounts of anniversary additive acclimated in a batch. Completed articles were ample in cases on pallets at the end of the assembly lines. Fork-truck drivers cruised a allotment of any of the 5 to seven curve active that day, analytic for abounding pallets, which they would aces up and bear to a staging across for alteration to Baldwin Richardson Foods’ administration facility. Paper adjustment tickets abreast drivers of the barter bay to bear anniversary pallet. Some assembly runs endure for three days; others are completed in a shift. During assembly runs there were actual few updates to the ERP arrangement if drivers relied on paperwork. Backlogs developed and jobs generally were not bankrupt until three to six canicule afterwards the absolute assembly run ended. Because there were actual few updates during production, abstracts in the ERP arrangement was generally several canicule behind, authoritative it difficult to accurately administer inventory.

According to Wayne Baxter, of BaxTek Solutions, in Snellville, Georgia, a arch systems integrator that works carefully with LXE in the above PartnerPass program, “The added cogent role of aliment traceability makes the amount of accession real-time abstracts beneath of an advantage and added of a necessity. Finding vendors with asperous abstracts accumulating articles is in actuality essential. We begin that in cold-storage aliment plants and added aliment processing and warehousing situations, LXE has a basic role in HACCP [Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points].”

BaxTek Solutions (www.baxtek.com) is one of the arch Systems Integrators in the barcode verification, abstracts collection, and accumulation alternation industry that offers a assorted apartment of articles including RFID, RF Terminals, Printers, Wireless Access Points, Software, Remote Portable Terminal and Printer Management and Repair Services. The aggregation specializes in traceability and tracking solutions for the aliment industry from "farm to fork."

BaxTek Solutions
www.baxtek.com
Tina Nagaitis
Marketing Manager
Solutions@BaxTek.com
866 722 9835

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