Honeywell Dolphin 9900 Mobile Computer

The Dolphin 9900 comes with a wrist strap for all day comfort and a magnesium alloy environment resistant casing for resilience against the wear and tear of data gathering. This is perhaps one of those devices that come with a pretty good camera because image scanning forms a core part of this device’s function.

The combination of seamless voice and data communication between you and your mobile workers, and GPS-enabled location-based functionality gives you the ability to achieve real-time connection to your employees, your supply chain and your customers – improving productivity and customer service.

Adaptus Imaging Technology enables capturing more frontline data to improve operations, expedite processes all leading to your ability to increase profitability

Running on Windows Mobile 6, the Dolphin 9900 from Honeywell is one of the more heavy duty B2B Windows Mobile devices available today. The 9900 comes with a bar code scanner. It isenhanced with excellent battery life and wireless full area LAN for direct and real time communications with your workforce.

Specs

* Intel XScale PXA270 624 MHz processor
* 640 × 480 pixel camera and bar code scanner
* 256MB RAM
* 1GB flash memory
* 2500mAh extended life battery
* SD memory card slot
* Bluetooth connectivity
* Wi-Fi support

Honeywell Dolphin 9900
Honeywell’s Dolphin 9900 heavy duty B2B device is now readily available, and will be powered by the Windows Mobile 6 operating system. It comes with a wrist strap for you to keep it close at all times, while the magnesium alloy environment resistant casing is good to go up against daily rough-and-tumnle use. Good idea to include the bright orange stylus that makes it a whole lot easier to see even if you drop it among a pile of junk!

Baldwin Foods Looks at Quality with Rugged Mobile Computing with LXE

Baldwin Richardson Foods, headquartered in Frankfort, Illinois, with manufacturing facility in Macedon, New York, produces bakery fillings, syrups, sauces, toppings, beverage mixes, condiments packets, and other food products. “Our operations were all manual. We wanted to automate and had looked into different bar coding systems over the years, but nothing was the right fit,” says Craig Czajka, the IT manager at Baldwin Richardson Foods.

 

Mobile data collection systems provide real-time visibility for batch traceability, raw materials levels, and finished goods inventory.  Innovative vehicle-mounted, hand-held, and wearable mobile computers must be dependable, tough, and reliable. Wireless computers extend corporate networks to mobile workers in demanding conditions and only rugged mobile computers drive down costs and improve customer satisfaction.

 

 

Based in Norcross, Georgia, LXE offered Baldwin Richardson Foods a full range of turnkey services, including radio integration, project and installation management, network design, technical support, and repair services. LXE helped the company transition to real-time visibility and gain control over raw materials, production status, and inventory transfers, warehousing, and distribution to customers. “Bar coding doesn’t fix things, it just makes things faster,” says Czajka. “We had to fix our processes first. The knowledge LXE had about working with our Ross ERP system was very valuable to us. Some of the other vendors we looked at had started to support Ross, but they weren’t there yet.”

 

LXE helped Baldwin Richardson Foods design a wireless network and mobile data collection systems to support new processes that provide real-time visibility for batch traceability, raw materials levels, and finished goods inventory.

 

Previously, production was carefully controlled, but the handling and storage of finished products relied on fork-truck drivers using paperwork. Raw materials were delivered to “cook decks” where cooks manually recorded the contents and amounts of each ingredient used in a batch. Completed products were stacked in cases on pallets at the end of the production lines. Fork-truck drivers cruised among any of the five to seven lines running that day, looking for full pallets, which they would pick up and deliver to a staging area for transfer to Baldwin Richardson Foods’ distribution facility. Paper order tickets informed drivers of the truck bay to deliver each pallet. Some production runs last for three days; others are completed in a shift. During production runs there were very few updates to the ERP system when drivers relied on paperwork. Backlogs developed and jobs often were not closed until three to six days after the actual production run ended. Because there were very few updates during production, data in the ERP system was often several days behind, making it difficult to accurately manage inventory.

 

According to Wayne Baxter, of BaxTek Solutions, in Snellville, Georgia, a leading systems integrator that works closely with LXE in the quality PartnerPass program, “The increasingly significant role of food traceability makes the value of collecting real-time data less of an option and more of a necessity. Finding vendors with rugged data collection products is absolutely essential. We found that in cold-storage food plants and other food processing and warehousing situations, LXE has a vital role in HACCP [Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points].”

 

BaxTek Solutions (www.baxtek.com) is one of the leading Systems Integrators in the barcode verification, data collection, and supply chain industry that offers a diverse suite of products including RFID, RF Terminals, Printers, Wireless Access Points, Software, Remote Portable Terminal and Printer Management and Repair Services.  The company specializes in traceability and tracking solutions for the food industry from “farm to fork.” 

 

 

 

 

BaxTek Solutions

www.baxtek.com

Tina Nagaitis

Marketing Manager

Solutions@BaxTek.com

866 722 9835

The Latest In Mobile Computers

The recently released Honeywell Dolphin 9700 mobile computer, also referred to as a rugged digital assistant, further builds upon the HHP (Hand Held Products) line of Dolphin mobile computers.  This handheld mobile computer is far beyond a mobile computer with an integrated barcode scanner, but a new device that that can help maximizes worker productivity and reduces operating costs.  With its multi-functional data collection and communications capabilities in one reliable, easy-to-use device, mobile workers can perform a broad range of tasks including email, instant messaging, web browsing, barcode scanning, GPS tracking, picture taking and even video recording.  It truly is amazing how advances in mobile computers continue to proceed at such a rapid rate.

According to Honeywell, the Honeywell Dolphin 9700 mobile computer was built from the ground up and features Honeywell’s Adaptus Imaging Technology for advanced barcode scanning which ensures that barcodes are read accurately and fast. The built-in barcode imager is capable of reading both 1D and 2D barcodes and is set at an angle, allowing workers to scan barcodes while still providing a full view of the crisp 3.7″ VGA screen. An optional 2 megapixel camera takes high quality color photos which  is ideal for adding visual documentation to receiving orders or customer accounts that have been scanned. For communication, all Honeywell Dolphin 9700 units come with 802.11a/b/g and Bluetooth radios standards as well optional GPS and GSM/HSDPA cellular radios.  For rugged barcode scanning applications, the Dolphin 9700 has an IP64 seal meaning that it completely protects the internals from dust and is resistant to splashes of water. The Dolphin 9700’s rugged design also allows it to withstand 5 foot drops to concrete, making this device excellent for withstanding the rigors of day-to-day barcode scanning in the field or warehouse.

Another unique feature of the Dolphin 9700 mobile computer is that it is available in Honeywell’s disinfectant-ready housings which are better able to resist the harsh cleaning chemicals used in healthcare environments. The reliable 9700 helps healthcare providers quickly and accurately perform bedside patient care including medication verification through bar code scanning, and more. With the large, bright display, and the high-speed wireless connection, healthcare providers can easily scan patient barcode information and quickly transmit it to the patients’ electronic medical record. Additionally, the comfortable grip and Honeywell’s Shift-PLUS power management system, which enhances productivity by powering real-time wireless and multi-media applications continuously for 8 hours or more, ensure that nurses have a device to support them throughout their entire shift.

Next month, we will take a look at the Motorola MC9500-K mobile computer and see what this new barcode capable handheld can do.  If you need pricing or additional information on either the Honeywell Dolphin 9700 or the Motorola MC9500K, visit my recommended website at AutoSavings.com or contact a Mobile Computing specialist at (714)922-1140.