Working faster with wireless help
19 February 2010
An industrial wireless network has revolutionised the working day for warehouse workers at the electronics manufacturer, Elko.
The work of moving goods from shelf to lorry has become easier for the people who sort goods for the company.
They no longer have to keep track of which goods they have to retrieve, and where and when they have to do it, because a hand-held computer informs them.
Messages about which goods are to be selected, as well as when and how, are continuously sent to the wireless computers that the workers carry as they progress from one shelf to the next.
Stacks of paper containing pick-lists have now been replaced by simple, updated messages from a computer, enabling the warehouse workers to pick out three times more goods during the day than they did before. And it’s an industrial wireless network that conveys the calculations from the computer system to the handheld computers that makes all this possible.
The Elko warehouse contains a lot of steel and concrete, as well as girders, and it occupies a large area, so the signals from a traditional wireless network do not reach.
Operations depend on wireless signals that reach the site from a reliable wireless network, so Elko chose theirs from Prosoft Technology through supplier Radiolinx.
Approximately 20 powerful boxes hang from the ceiling beams in the production hall and transmit the wireless signals. These are industrial routers that have been designed to tolerate intensive use over a long time period.
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