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

Rugged Rfid Reader/mobile Computer Ideal For Many Vertical Markets

Toronto, Canada – GAO RFID Inc. (www.GAORFID.com) has released a rugged, handheld mobile computer with a high frequency (13.56MHz) RFID reader.The reader supports most tags compliant with ISO 14443A, ISO 14443B and ISO 15693 standards. It reads and writes tag IDs and data blocks and protects the data on compatible transponders for privacy and security purposes using advanced encryption and authentication techniques. This mobile reader is suited for used in the warehouse or on the hospital floor. It is an ideal solution for any number of vertical markets, such as asset tracking and inventory management, event attendance or personnel access control and fleet maintenance.

This handheld RFID reader/mobile computer, model 243004, offers a RS232 serial port for communication and two unique and innovative features which offer great benefits to users – its exceptional antenna and a brilliant “Software Defined Radio” (SDR) architecture. The innovative antenna enables it to read tags in practically any orientation overcoming problems associated with tag orientation in supply chain applications. As well, its hardware/software scheme future-proofs the RFID reader allowing support for future tags and protocols via a software upgrade while maintaining existing hardware. This reader is also fully customizable and has a Compact Flash (CF) slot for wide variety of CF-enabled peripheral devices.

Visit www.GAORFID.com for more information.

For any sales inquires please contact:

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About GAO RFID Inc.
GAO RFID Inc. (www.GAORFID.com) is a leading provider of RFID Readers, RFID Tags and RFID software providing cost saving solutions to end users worldwide. GAO offers all RFID technologies: Low Frequency (LF), High Frequency (HF), Ultra High Frequency (UHF, Gen 2) as well as Active and Semi-Passive. GAO RFID’s products and services are easily customized for use in asset tracking,healthcare, supply chain & logistics, event management, access control, livestock tracking, inventory control & management, field service maintenance and document authentication.

Rugged Handheld Mobile Computer with HF RFID Reader

Toronto, Canada – GAO RFID Inc.(www.GAORFID.com) has rolled out its rugged handheld Mobile Computer with HF RFID Reader (GAO243003). This RFID-enabled multi-functional mobile computing device is widely used in the warehouse, on the manufacturing line, or anywhere asset tracking is required. The compact and light weight reader is an ideal tool for workforce deployment.

GAO offers four different models including a 13.56MHz, high frequency RFID reader/writer: Each model provides audio feedback, a color display with touch screen, Bluetooth, barcode scanning, and RFID capabilities.

Aside from being an RFID reader, this powerful mobile computer features 128MB SRAM, 128MB internal FLASH, as well as, a user accessible SD card slot for additional mass storage. It is equipped with either a 26 key or a 41 key alpha-numeric keypad and can be further optionally tailored to a specific application.

The case is molded from an ABS/Polycarbonate blend plastic offering extreme resilience to environmental stresses, as well as to a wide variety of chemical substances and the unit is IP65 rated for protection against dust and water.

For more information about Rugged Handheld Mobile Computer with HF RFID Reader, please visit www.GAORFID.com or contact

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Director of Marketing,

416-292-0038 ext 228

marketing@GAORFID.com

GAO RFID Inc. is a member of GAO Group, which also includes

GAO Tek Inc. – www.GAOTek.com GAO Research Inc. – www.GAOResearch.com GAO RFID Asset Tracking – www.GAORFIDAssetTracking.com GAO Embedded – www.GAOEmbedded.com GAO Instruments – www.GAOInstruments.com GAO Comm – www.GAOComm.com GAO Fiber Optics – www.GAOFiberOptics.com

Toronto, Canada – GAO RFID Inc.(www.GAORFID.com) has rolled out its rugged handheld Mobile Computer with HF RFID Reader (GAO243003). This RFID-enabled multi-functional mobile computing device is widely used in the warehouse, on the manufacturing line, or anywhere asset tracking is required. The compact and light weight reader is an ideal tool for workforce deployment.

GAO offers four different models including a 13.56MHz, high frequency RFID reader/writer: Each model provides audio feedback, a color display with touch screen, Bluetooth, barcode scanning, and RFID capabilities.

Aside from being an RFID reader, this powerful mobile computer features 128MB SRAM, 128MB internal FLASH, as well as, a user accessible SD card slot for additional mass storage. It is equipped with either a 26 key or a 41 key alpha-numeric keypad and can be further optionally tailored to a specific application.

The case is molded from an ABS/Polycarbonate blend plastic offering extreme resilience to environmental stresses, as well as to a wide variety of chemical substances and the unit is IP65 rated for protection against dust and water.

For more information about Rugged Handheld Mobile Computer with HF RFID Reader, please visit www.GAORFID.com or contact

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” target=”_blank”>www.GAORFID.com

For any media queries:

Director of Marketing,

416-292-0038 ext 228

marketing@GAORFID.com

GAO RFID Inc. is a member of GAO Group, which also includes

GAO Tek Inc. – www.GAOTek.com GAO Research Inc. – www.GAOResearch.com GAO RFID Asset Tracking – www.GAORFIDAssetTracking.com GAO Embedded – www.GAOEmbedded.com GAO Instruments – www.GAOInstruments.com GAO Comm – www.GAOComm.com GAO Fiber Optics – www.GAOFiberOptics.com