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July 26, 2011

L-Tron’s New Blog Enables Clients to Stay Abreast of Emerging Technology Trends

Filed under: Press — Tags: , — Winson @ 3:20 AM

Victor, New York – L-Tron Corporation announces the recent launch of a new weblog on its corporate website, with the main goal of sharing the company’s collective expertise and extensive knowledge with both clients and potential clients. The blog, which is updated several times a week, helps readers understand the direction of technology in the marketplace and how to use that technology to increase their profitability.

L-Tron President, RAD DeRose, initiated a company blog based the company’s commitment to its customers. DeRose clarifies, “Establishing the company blog is an extension of our “customer first” culture. I want to provide an opportunity where, as a company, we can interact with our clients in an open forum. This allows us to connect to our customers directly by providing tips and insights, answering questions, and also by receiving feedback.”

This “customer first” culture that DeRose mentions is not a novel concept for L-Tron. Starting with the company’s creation over 35 years ago, L-Tron (http://www.l-tron.com) began delivering the service and support its customers needed to be successful. The company continues to regularly receive excellent customer feedback to this day, always striving to exceed customer expectations.

DeRose further explains, “By putting our clients first, we ensure that the customer experience with L-Tron is a positive one. Of course, there are times when, despite our best efforts, there are problems. We view these problems as opportunities to demonstrate our outstanding technical and customer service capabilities. If there is a problem, we resolve it in a manner that truly outshines our competitors.”

L-Tron’s blog posts commenced on June 19, 2011 and continue to grow in popularity with readers. Written by industry experts within L-Tron Corporation, articles thus far have focused on educating readers about efficient workflow processes, effective data collection procedures, trends across a variety of top industries, helpful hints when shopping for new technology, and more. Widely-read posts over the past weeks have included: “Capturing Electronic Signatures,” “Workforce Trends in Field Mobility Solutions,” and “Assess True Labor Costs with Tracking Solutions.”

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February 17, 2011

Benefits of Using Barcodes in Small Businesses

Filed under: Small Business — Tags: , — Winson @ 4:51 AM

Barcode is termed as an optical representation of data showed on certain products. It is read by specific machines called barcode readers or barcode scanners. Symbol scanners are some of the types of scanners used in market these days. Barcode technology can also be helpful for small businesses. Small and medium sized businesses include applications of barcodes in shipping, production, packaging, warehouses, and sales. Some of the benefits of barcode applications for small businesses are listed here.

Easy to Use:
Small business operations can be made easy by use of barcodes. Using efficient barcode scanners like Symbol barcode scanners is very easy and does not require any special skills. A less costly dot-matrix printers can be used by them to create simple barcode labels.

Accurate:
Many errors arise due to manual entry of data in data collections. Barcodes are accurate and avoid these errors. In order to maintain accuracy, it is necessary to maintain creation of good quality labels. It becomes easy for barcode scanners to read effective labels.

Uniform Data Collection:
Sometimes it is required for small businesses to meet some industry specific compliance standards. Specific requirements with shipments are provided for many manufacturers, industries and other organizations. Uniform data can be collected in specific industry in a fast pace by application of barcodes. This helps in improving relations with existing clients. New clients can also be attracted which helps in enhancing sales and growth of the business.

Rise of Productivity:
Manual and routine activities of a business can be automated by using barcodes. It helps in increasing the efficiency of business processes. As manual work in data collection is less, employees can perform other important tasks of businesses. It increases the overall productivity of an organization.

Timely Feedback:
Data capture can be done rapidly by application of barcodes. Hence, an efficient timely feedback of business processes can be given. Information like the number and brand of products bought by customers can be known to a businesses at the right time.

As these benefits are associated with barcode applications in various industries, small businesses prefer to implement barcode technology.

January 27, 2011

Barcode Time and Attendance Systems Provide many Benefits

Filed under: Business — Tags: — Winson @ 5:26 AM

Barcodes include linear bars and spaces containing information of a particular product. Barcode readers are the devices that scan or read data from barcodes. Barcodes today are used for many applications. Manual systems usage involve labor and errors taking lot of time. Hence barcode systems can be used in place of manual systems in businesses. Barcode time and attendance systems include tracking of attendance of employees and also track the time of hours worked. Payroll accuracy and efficiency can be improved by barcode time and attendance systems. Some of the advantages of these systems are listed here.

  • Quick payroll preparation time
  • Reduction of key entry and mathematical errors
  • Reduction of time required for payroll audit tasks
  • Elimination of time required for compliance reporting
  • Elimination of loss from fraud and non-conformances with company policy

Data from barcode identification cards of employees is read by barcode scanners such as Symbol scanners, HP Laser scanners and so on. This helps in allowing employees in making quick and accurate time transactions. The data collected has to be stored in a database and proper management of the data is necessary. The scanner is fixed to an individual PC that stores the data. Then the data is used by the barcode time and attendance software for payroll generation and detailed reports. Special barcode time and attendance software is available and used by many organizations.

Many businesses implement the barcode time and management system. They use specific barcode readers like Symbol scanners to read the data properly. The barcode time and attendance systems help in improving overall efficiency and performance of an organization. The system also ensures government, customer and contract compliance.

January 11, 2011

Know About Laser Barcode Scanners

Filed under: Business — Tags: , , — Winson @ 2:39 AM

Because of rapid development in science and technology, every industry now needs advanced gadgets in order to perform their functions. Barcode industry too has come up with new innovations in designing barcode scanners which give quick, effective results. Due to these advanced features, effectiveness and productivity of various businesses in industrial sectors are increased.

Barcode products especially barcode scanners effectively reduce the time and gives results with less effort in completing the required work in the process of billing in the commercial transactions.

Today, many popular barcode manufacturers use laser barcode scanning technology. Because a laser barcode scanner is 50 times faster and 10,000 times more accurate when compared to manual data entry. Each laser barcode scanner consists of a laser beam, substitute of a light source for catching information in the barcode scanner. So, these type barcode scanners have gained more popularity compared to other barcode scanners. Today, many barcode manufacturing companies like symbol barcode scanner identify these points and are releasing laser barcode scanners with best-in-class features, which can perform under every work conditions,which are highly durable and have reasonable prices.

A laser barcode scanner can complete up to 500 scans per second. Laser scanners are more flexible to use as they come in both handheld and fixed mount configurations. Also, laser barcode scanners are classified based on their distance of reading from barcode label. They are standard barcode scanners, long-range barcode scanners and also little modified, extra long-range barcode scanners.

January 7, 2011

Using Barcode Technology in Transportation and Logistics Industry

Filed under: Business — Tags: , — Winson @ 2:38 AM

Way of businesses selling and tracking their assets have been totally changed by the barcode technology. This technology has been growing from many years. Most of the industries are using this barcode technology, transportable and logistics industry is one of them.

Many complicated tasks are involved in the transportation and logistics industry. Such tasks require 100 percent accuracy while maintaining the cost. In order to succeed in this business, it is important to have the most sophisticated technology like barcode technology. This technology can eliminate the human errors and speedup the work flow process.

In order to use this barcode technology, it is necessary to have the barcode printers and scanners. It is important in transportation and logistics industry to deliver the products on time and tracking and safety of the products as well. At different points of the flow of the goods from the point of the origin to the point of consumption, these barcodes are used. The important information like sender, receiver, product details etc must be recorded, because each and every time the products moves from one hand to other hand. Barcodes can help to record the details in quick and accurate manner.

Errors can be reduced and process can be made faster by eliminating the human intervention and by using barcode scanners in order to capture the information from the barcode on the pallet or carton in the transportation process. Barcodes on every pallet or carton are printed by barcode printer. Using barcode scanner can help in collecting the detailed information easily and it can be saved for further analysis.

You can encode all the crucial information like order number, items packed, final destination and more in barcodes. So it makes it easy for load management like verify the loads and handle the load sequencing and so on.

Thus barcode technology is very useful and effective for transportation and logistics industry.

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