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3 Tips to Make Your Meetings ‘Lean’ and Reduce Miscommunication

Blog, Business / By / November 29, 2016 / 3 minutes of reading

The principles that drive lean manufacturing are focused on reducing unnecessary actions and increasing quality and customer satisfaction. Some businesses focus their “lean and mean” strategy on processes. They can even apply to how you run your meetings. We’ve discovered the hidden waste of miscommunication in manufacturing is a critical gap to address.    Here …

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Big Data for Weather Forecasting: A Change in the Tech Climate

Blog, Data Collection, Internet of Things, Technology Trends / By / November 21, 2016 / 3 minutes of reading

“If you don’t like the weather, just wait ten minutes.”  Long before there were “meteorologists”, we had “weathermen”. Their job was to give us their weather forecasts. And we took their predictions with a grain of salt. Recently, Hurricane Matthew raged onto the eastern coast of the southern Atlantic states. It was initially predicted to …

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Is eBay getting inside your mind as well as your pockets?

Blog, Retail, Technology Trends / By / November 10, 2016 / 3 minutes of reading

Twenty-one years ago, shoppers discovered the thrill of the online auction when eBay was born. Since opening on Labor Day weekend in 1995, eBay has grown to become an e-commerce powerhouse that has challenged Amazon for world domination. While eBay began with people selling their own “stuff”, about 80% of what’s now sold on the …

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Augmented Reality Gives Enterprises a New Perspective

Blog, Technology Trends / By / November 8, 2016 / 3 minutes of reading

The advancement of technology is both a curse and a blessing for today’s businesses. It’s great for the productivity benefits that stem from the exploration of what’s possible. The curse is trying to sort through what’s here and what’s coming, and determine where you should invest—and when. At what point do you adopt a new …

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10 Ways to use 2D Barcode Scanning in Manufacturing, Part 3

Barcode Scanners, Blog, Industrial Computers, Manufacturing, Traceability / By / November 3, 2016 / 3 minutes of reading

In Parts 1 and 2 of my series, we discussed 6 ways that the manufacturing industry can use – and has been using – 2D barcode scanning technology to improve traceability: Print Circuit Board Component Reels, Print Circuit Boards & PCB Arrays, Board Sub-Assemblies, Final Board Assemblies, Finished Product, and  Finished Product Boxing. You can read …

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10 Ways to use 2D Barcode Scanning in Manufacturing, Part 2

Barcode Scanners, Blog, Industrial Computers, Manufacturing, Traceability / By / October 25, 2016 / 3 minutes of reading

In Part 1 of this series, discussion surrounded the first 3 ways that the manufacturing industry can use 2D barcode scanning technology to improve traceability: Print Circuit Board Component Reels, Print Circuit Boards & PCB Arrays, and Board Sub-Assemblies. In case you missed it, you can read more here. Today, I will share the next three …

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10 Ways to use 2D Barcode Scanning in Manufacturing, Part 1

Barcode Scanners, Blog, Industrial Computers, Manufacturing, Traceability / By / October 18, 2016 / 4 minutes of reading

2D Barcodes have been prevalent for several years across industries such as Healthcare, Food & Beverage, Government, Warehousing and Transportation. The Manufacturing Industry, however, has always seemed to lag behind, sticking to legacy applications and linear barcodes for traceability. Due to increasing end user requirements regarding product lot traceability, manufacturers have had no choice but …

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Does this technology make me look fat? The rise of wearables in 2016.

Blog, Technology Trends / By / October 5, 2016 / 3 minutes of reading

A few years ago, I would have thought that “wearing a smartwatch” meant keeping an eye on the stock market. Sure, we saw the likes of James Bond and Maxwell Smart having futuristic techno-watches decades ago, but that was science fiction. Actually, it was a preview—as is most sci-fi gadgetry these days. Before Apple launched …

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AI Earbuds: That new, little voice inside your head

Blog, Business, Internet of Things, Technology Trends / By / September 28, 2016 / 3 minutes of reading

Wearable technology is on the rise. Smart watches sparked our fascination not long ago, and smart sensors are now being found on just about anything we wear. Enter the iPhone 7 with something new. Almost every year since Apple first launched the iPhone in 2007, the company has brought on a new and improved version …

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