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MSM Solutions Launches New Android Operating System for PortalTrack RFID Software
New OS enables customers to identify, track, count and manage assets in real time MSM Solutions, a global provider of RFID and barcode solutions, today announced that it has improved its PortalTrack Android platform for mobile RFID and barcode asset tracking...
How to Identify, Track, Count and Manage with PortalTrack
https://youtu.be/5WFkPyS6Zhw Watch our explainer video to learn how to accurately identify, track, count and manage in-process assets and inventory with PortalTrack RFID software. We understand that manufacturing inventory management is a real challenge with real...
3 Reasons Why Your Printing Supplies Could Be Costing You More Than You Think
If you’re trying to maintain a high level of operational efficiency and profitability, you don’t want to see downtime, interruptions, or hidden costs. Many companies end up dealing with these headaches from an unexpected and often hidden cause. It’s something that...
The Importance of Traceability in Times of COVID-19
In an unprecedented measure to help the beset of the world’s worst outbreak of COVID-19, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, announced his new plan to unify the state’s hospital system. Under this plan, more than two hundred hospitals in New York state, totaling...
Disinfect and Protect Your Zebra Mobile Devices
Right now, we’re all getting a lesson on how important it is to wash our hands, avoid touching our face, and maintain social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s also a critical time to keep our mobile devices disinfected and cleaned, especially in enterprise...
COVID-19 Update
Dear Customers, Partners, and Friends: These are difficult times and you are likely already feeling the effects of the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic in your communities, at work and at home. We hope you are taking the necessary precautions for yourself, your loved...
Upgrade Your Mobile Devices & Explore the Benefits of Modern Tech
In today’s fast-paced business environment, staying competitive means keeping your technology up-to-date. Zebra Technologies offers a valuable opportunity for companies to upgrade their aging mobile computers, barcode printers, scanners, and tablets with the GO Zebra...
RFID Integrated Solution for Warehouse Environment
RFID technology optimizes the processes employed by manufacturing companies all around the world. Real-time product information and traceability is now a requirement for these companies in order to maintain sufficient production and storage management operations....
The Roll of Inventory Tracking in Logistics
The concept of logistics tracking refers to identifying the origin of a product and any of the different stages that the product goes through, from the beginning of the production process, through its subsequent distribution, and to arriving at the final consumer....
Why Print-and-Apply is Often the Better Way to Print Labels
When it comes to labeling products and shipments, many companies rely on manual processes or outsourcing. Generally, they end up choosing one of two approaches: 1. Print barcode labels on industrial or desktop printers, and then manually apply them to boxes or...
5 Reasons Why Android Should Be Your Next Enterprise Mobile OS
It’s official; Microsoft has now ended all remaining support for Windows Embedded Handheld 6.5, the operating system that has powered millions of enterprise mobile devices since 2011. This major development is just the latest in several phase-outs of Windows mobile...
How Does RFID Help Increase Inventory Accuracy?
RFID technology has many advantages. Among key benefits is the enabling of more accurate and more frequent inventory cycles while utilizing less labor. Traditionally, inventory counts have been performed in one of two ways: by manual counts with pen and paper or by...
McKinsey & Company Opens Its First Retail Store in Collaboration With Mall of America
Store Signals Brick-and-Mortar Is Critical to the Future of Retail MSM provides its EPC Printing and Encoding Solution to "Modern Retail Collective - Store of the Future." This RFID solution enables tagged retail items to be detected, located,...
How to use RFID for Work in Process (WIP) Tracking in Manufacturing
Streamlining workflow management in production, inventory management, and other manufacturing tasks is invaluable in keeping track of all objects. In automotive manufacturing, various components and tools in assembling processes require accurate tagging to expedite...
Top Eight Processes in Smart Warehouse and Manufacturing
Finding the best methods of making the manufacturing process faster and more efficient can be imperative to one's ability to remain competitive within this ever-changing market. In other words, regardless of what one's business goals may be, they must make the effort...