Monday, May 16, 2011
Make Bar Coding Work for Your Company
A bar code is any optical machine-readable representation of data in the form of specifically spaced parallel lines. The most prevalent bar code is the universal product code, or UPC, which is on almost every product sold in the retail industry. However, a bar code can represent any form of text, which in turn can be read by a computer using inexpensive bar code scanners. This input can be used with any software in place of a keyboard.
In the current issue of Welding & Gases Today, the journal of the Gases and Welding Distributors Association (GAWDA), Iain Hodgekins, vice president of operations for Superior Products of Cleveland, Ohio, shares his expert insights on the use of bar coding in business.
"Since 2003, Superior Products has used a bar coding system in multiple departments and has been enjoying hefty cost savings and committing fewer errors," Hodgekins reports. "When employees were typing or recording information by hand, the accuracy rate was approximately 90 percent, due to lost tickets, transposing of numbers or other human errors. That accuracy rate has increased to more than 99.9 percent since the switch to bar codes.
"Making the switch to bar coding has brought an enormous amount of time and cost savings to our company, and we are closer than ever to becoming an error-free establishment," Hodgekins says. "The benefits to the level efficiency and organization that come with implementing a scanning-based business are simply too great to be ignored."
Read "Scanning the Way to Savings" at Welding & Gases Today Online—the leading trade journal for the welding, welding equipment, industrial gases, medical gases and specialty gases industry—and find out more about bar coding technology and how it can enhance your business.
For more information, contact Jeffrey Charboneau, editor of Welding & Gases Today, at editor@weldingandgasestoday.org or 315-445-2347.
About GAWDA
Founded in 1945, the Gases and Welding Distributors Association (GAWDA) is the premier source for manufacturing knowledge, education and networking. Through its member journals (www.welding andgasestoday.org), e-magazines, newsletters and industry wiki (www.gawdawiki.org), GAWDA connects suppliers of gases and manufacturers of related equipment as well as manufacturers of welding equipment and distribution leaders, for the purpose of safely delivering optimal solutions to the users of those products. GAWDA publications are the industry's voice for all matters related to the latest technology and the most up-to-date processes spanning welding equipment and products and services related to industrial, medical, specialty and cryogenic gases. A 501(c)3 organization, GAWDA members are located throughout North America.
Read more at http://www.articlealley.com/article_1098005_15.html?ktrack=kcplink
In the current issue of Welding & Gases Today, the journal of the Gases and Welding Distributors Association (GAWDA), Iain Hodgekins, vice president of operations for Superior Products of Cleveland, Ohio, shares his expert insights on the use of bar coding in business.
"Since 2003, Superior Products has used a bar coding system in multiple departments and has been enjoying hefty cost savings and committing fewer errors," Hodgekins reports. "When employees were typing or recording information by hand, the accuracy rate was approximately 90 percent, due to lost tickets, transposing of numbers or other human errors. That accuracy rate has increased to more than 99.9 percent since the switch to bar codes.
"Making the switch to bar coding has brought an enormous amount of time and cost savings to our company, and we are closer than ever to becoming an error-free establishment," Hodgekins says. "The benefits to the level efficiency and organization that come with implementing a scanning-based business are simply too great to be ignored."
Read "Scanning the Way to Savings" at Welding & Gases Today Online—the leading trade journal for the welding, welding equipment, industrial gases, medical gases and specialty gases industry—and find out more about bar coding technology and how it can enhance your business.
For more information, contact Jeffrey Charboneau, editor of Welding & Gases Today, at editor@weldingandgasestoday.org or 315-445-2347.
About GAWDA
Founded in 1945, the Gases and Welding Distributors Association (GAWDA) is the premier source for manufacturing knowledge, education and networking. Through its member journals (www.welding andgasestoday.org), e-magazines, newsletters and industry wiki (www.gawdawiki.org), GAWDA connects suppliers of gases and manufacturers of related equipment as well as manufacturers of welding equipment and distribution leaders, for the purpose of safely delivering optimal solutions to the users of those products. GAWDA publications are the industry's voice for all matters related to the latest technology and the most up-to-date processes spanning welding equipment and products and services related to industrial, medical, specialty and cryogenic gases. A 501(c)3 organization, GAWDA members are located throughout North America.
Read more at http://www.articlealley.com/article_1098005_15.html?ktrack=kcplink
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