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Tips and Hints: Drive Productivity with Avalon’s Power Cart

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As a leader in innovative technology solutions, Avalon Integration has racked up over 20 years of experience in resolving costly bottlenecks, such as the ones that often follow receiving operations. After careful analysis, we’ve created IT-friendly affordable tips and hints, that boost productivity exponentially. Streamline operations smoothly with Avalon’s very own Power Cart.

Meet the On-the-Move Solution for Stagnant Profits

Dan Mccabe showing off Avalon integrations Power Cart

Dan Mccabe showing off Avalon integrations Power Cart

Conventional receiving operations often face long wait-times as inventory must be moved to a usually-crowded PC station before stocking. Since downtime can cost up to $260,000 an hour, reducing wait-times is imperative for overall enterprise success.

To optimize receiving operations with minimal IT interference and errors, we’re introducing Power Cart, the moving PC station that travels to your needs instead of the other way around. Eliminate costly bottlenecks and downtime while driving up productivity by 40% with four new digital assets all provided by Avalon Integration:

  • Laptop 
  • Additional Keyboard
  • Zebra Industrial Printer
  • Newcastle Moving Cart

Bring the functionality of your printing solution wherever you go throughout the warehouse without the stress of stagnant productivity. Plus, add a mountable arm to your cart along with a rugged tablet to further enhance your cart with free space for writing or counting inventory.

Steer Efficiency Efficiently

Avalon Integration Power Cart Display

Avalon Integration Power Cart Display

With Zebra’s exceptional rugged technology, expect consistent quality with every operation, whether it be data capture or a print run. Plus, Zebra ruggedness reaches a new extreme when paired with Newcastle’s moving cart.

  • Printing Mobility: Give your industrial printer unforeseen mobility without sacrificing functionality as each cart comes with a slide-out tray that facilitates media reloading.
  • Reliable Security: Protect your investment with security features such as rugged castors and sturdy mounting arms that eliminate downtime due to broken hardware. 
  • Sustainable Productivity: Power your devices with mobile batteries located at the bottom of the cart for continuous functionality throughout shifts. At the end of each shift, simply slide and replace removable batteries in less than a second, minimizing workflow disruptions.

But why just read the Power Cart when you could see it in action in our video?

Don’t settle for curiosity. Contact Avalon Integration for an up-close demonstration of the newest solutions designed for warehouse modernization. Looking for reliable customer service, checkout Avalons technical support blog post by clicking here.

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Sharpen Accuracy and Efficiency in Warehouse Picking with Better Mobility

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The ever increasing demand for more efficiency and accuracy in warehouse operations leaves no room for errors. At the same time, many warehouses are processing more orders and juggling more SKUs, adding to the challenge.

Picking is one area where delays and mistakes happen. You can reduce these problems by automating the process with mobile technology. Your pickers can verify every item they pick and achieve this heightened accuracy with more accuracy than ever before.

Mobile-Powered Cart

Power Carts

A mobile-powered cart acts as a workstation on wheels, allowing your pickers to keep all of their technology close by and powered up. Eliminating the unnecessary movement between aisles and a central workstation increases efficiency. A mobile-powered workstation, like the EcoCart, delivers 8 hours of battery power and the heavy-duty reliability to withstand the tough conditions of a warehouse or distribution center. Equip it with a mobile computer, like an enterprise-grade tablet (e.g., Zebra ET50), and an industrial printer (Zebra ZT230), and your employees are connected with all the information and output they need.

Mobile Computers for the Hands-Free Approach

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Mobile computers, like a Zebra TC8000 handheld computer, are multi-functional. They enable your workers to view orders on the screen, scan and verify products, check product locations, and instantly update inventory. This particular rugged mobile computer has been shown to increase productivity by 14%, the equivalent of one hour per worker per shift, which contributes to a rapid ROI.

The hands-free, voice-directed picking (VDP) approach to wearable technology increases efficiency even more. The combination of a ring scanner, wearable wrist terminal, and computer headset provides total freedom of movement to use both hands for picking orders. The picker responds to a voice command, points the ring scanner, and confirms the accuracy. There’s no device to carry, wrist strain is reduced, and your team picks more orders per shift, which boosts your profitability and helps you meet your operational goals.

Technology Allows for More Accuracy in Your Warehouse

According to Zebra, one of the industry leaders in mobile data collection technology, voice-directed picking solutions result in 99% accuracy and increase warehouse productivity by at least 10%.

Zebra’s research also presented some interesting statistics that support the decision to invest in better mobility solutions that enable multi-modal picking. With this approach, users achieved these results:

  • 14% less walking time to complete an order
  • 18.1% less time to pick all items in an order
  • 15.4% less time to fulfill an order
  • Error rate that is 63% less than those with voice-only systems

Technology will enable you to tighten control over your warehouse operations. Automating processes, like picking, overrides human error, allows you to process orders more quickly, optimize your labor costs, and achieve real-time visibility. Acquiring technology is not an expense, but an investment in the strength of your business.

Avalon Integration specializes in technology solutions for warehouses and manufacturing. Use our mobility expertise to customize the solutions for your business. Contact us to realize the potential.

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Get up to $550 Cash Rebate When You Upgrade to Zebra ZT600 from Avalon

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When you rely on your thermal printer to deliver heavy-duty performance, you can’t afford to hold onto an outdated printer. The cost of downtime, repairs, and replacement supplies eats into your profitability. Avalon Integration has partnered with Zebra to give you a solution to questionable barcode label printer performance.

The Zebra ZT600 industrial printer series was introduced last year, as an upgraded replacement to the company’s legendary Xi4 industrial printers, which already lead the industry in performance, durability, print speed, and quality. When we learned that Zebra had raised the standard for barcode label printing in tough environments, we knew our customers needed to explore it.

ZT600 Two Front Facing View

Then, Zebra helped us sweeten the deal with a cash rebate for these new printers. Buy a ZT610 or ZT620 thermal printer from Avalon Integration and get $250 back for a ZT610 and $500 for a ZT620 when you trade in your current industrial printer—even if you’re not using a Zebra model. Add in the Zebra OneCare Printer Service and you’ll receive an additional $50 cashback.

The cash rebate provides an incentive for making the move to the ZT600 barcode label printers, but there are many more reasons to upgrade now.

ZT600 Right Side View Printing

Zebra has incorporated “future-facing technology” in the ZT600 Printer Series—improvements that are designed to extend the life and value of your printer investment.

  • The ZR610’s 600 dpi resolution prints micro-labels are as small as 3 mm—ideal for circuit boards, chips, and miniature components.
  • Highly precise registration produces micro-consistent printing without waste.
  • Adaptable design enables field upgrades.
  • Long-life printheads reduce replacement costs and downtime.
  • Printhead pressure toggles with color-coded pressure indicators make it fast and easy to complete simple adjustments.
  • Zebra Link-OS Printer Profile Manager Enterprise, Mobile Device Management connectors, and Visibility Services streamline device and network management.

ZT600 Left Side View Printing

In addition, the ZT600 printers have kept the features that distinguished the Xi:

  • All-metal components resist extreme temperatures, moisture, dust, and dirt.
  • Side-loading and guided media paths simplify the task and reduce the printer’s footprint.
  • Built-in thermal management eliminates vents and fans to prevent dust and debris.
  • High-quality construction delivers superior quality, speed, and reliability.

Now is a great time to move up to more reliable, higher quality barcode label printing. Talk to us at Avalon Integration about the Zebra ZT600 industrial printers and the GO Zebra trade-in program.

Contact us today to learn more.

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