Intermec’s bar code solutions arrive in Nigeria
Jonah Iboma
Symbology, a bar code invented by Intermec Technologies Corporation of United States of America, is now available in Nigeria following the firm’s commencement of operations in Nigeria.
A barcode is a machine-readable representation of information in a visual format on a surface. They are present on the surfaces of the packages of most products especially manufactured by well-established firms. Though originally barcodes stored data in the widths and spacings of printed parallel lines, they also come in patterns of dots, concentric circles, and hidden within images.
Speaking at the launch in Lagos on Wednesday, Chief Executive Officer, Mr Ayo Eso of 3Consulting, the sole partner of Intermec in the country, said the Solutions provide supply chain information products, services and systems to companies in hundreds of industries around the world.
He explained that supply chain information systems allow companies to compile previously unheard of amounts of information from one end of an enterprise to the other. Companies can use these information to reduce inventory, cut labor costs, speed manufacturing and improve profitability.
Eso said “Intermec products and services for example allow major automakers to track components and parts through assembly, hospitals to track equipment and supplies, e-commerce companies to speed fulfillment, and shoppers to automate purchases”.
Also, Intermec’s Regional Channel Manager Middle East and Africa Mr. Omiros Passarides said his company develops, manufactures and integrates wired and wireless automated data collection, RFID (radio frequency identification) and mobile computing systems for companies worldwide. Its total solution approach offers companies assurance that, with Intermec’s network of leading technology partners, Intermec and its team can provide complete answers to companies’ supply chain information requirements, from concept to completion.
Passarides added that Intermec's mobile computing products combine state-of-the-art PC power with application software to reduce labor costs and to increase front-line workers' efficiency, productivity and profitability.
“Our wireless data systems allow customers to identify, track and monitor almost anything that moves. The systems include wireless LANs that support a complete range of current and anticipated wireless technologies and are easily integrated into fixed high-speed LAN-based solutions. Intermec’s bar code printers, supported by Intermec media and label supplies, can handle any bar code printing requirement, from the most rugged environments to the most refined”, he said.
The Regional Channel Manager also said Local area data management systems by Intermec include handheld, vehicle-mounted and stationary computer networking terminals tailored to specific applications, host environments and bar code networks.
Intermec’s data capture devices include wands, scanners, imagers, charge coupled devices, laser scanners and wedges, as well as some of the newest personal scanning devices available today. Intermec’s radio frequency identification technology allows companies to track items automatically with read and write capability unparalleled in the industry - without the line of sight requirements of traditional data collection.Intermec was founded in 1966 as Interface Mechanisms, a Washington state start-up company developing dual-image tape, a machine readable code used to compile data for the phototypesetting industry. One of the company’s early leaders, Dr. Dave Allais, went on to invent Code 39, still one of the world’s most widely used bar code symbologies. Today Intermec is a $900 million company doing business in more than 80 countries. It is the largest public company based in Snohomish County, Washington, with more than 2,600 employees worldwide.
Symbology, a bar code invented by Intermec Technologies Corporation of United States of America, is now available in Nigeria following the firm’s commencement of operations in Nigeria.
A barcode is a machine-readable representation of information in a visual format on a surface. They are present on the surfaces of the packages of most products especially manufactured by well-established firms. Though originally barcodes stored data in the widths and spacings of printed parallel lines, they also come in patterns of dots, concentric circles, and hidden within images.
Speaking at the launch in Lagos on Wednesday, Chief Executive Officer, Mr Ayo Eso of 3Consulting, the sole partner of Intermec in the country, said the Solutions provide supply chain information products, services and systems to companies in hundreds of industries around the world.
He explained that supply chain information systems allow companies to compile previously unheard of amounts of information from one end of an enterprise to the other. Companies can use these information to reduce inventory, cut labor costs, speed manufacturing and improve profitability.
Eso said “Intermec products and services for example allow major automakers to track components and parts through assembly, hospitals to track equipment and supplies, e-commerce companies to speed fulfillment, and shoppers to automate purchases”.
Also, Intermec’s Regional Channel Manager Middle East and Africa Mr. Omiros Passarides said his company develops, manufactures and integrates wired and wireless automated data collection, RFID (radio frequency identification) and mobile computing systems for companies worldwide. Its total solution approach offers companies assurance that, with Intermec’s network of leading technology partners, Intermec and its team can provide complete answers to companies’ supply chain information requirements, from concept to completion.
Passarides added that Intermec's mobile computing products combine state-of-the-art PC power with application software to reduce labor costs and to increase front-line workers' efficiency, productivity and profitability.
“Our wireless data systems allow customers to identify, track and monitor almost anything that moves. The systems include wireless LANs that support a complete range of current and anticipated wireless technologies and are easily integrated into fixed high-speed LAN-based solutions. Intermec’s bar code printers, supported by Intermec media and label supplies, can handle any bar code printing requirement, from the most rugged environments to the most refined”, he said.
The Regional Channel Manager also said Local area data management systems by Intermec include handheld, vehicle-mounted and stationary computer networking terminals tailored to specific applications, host environments and bar code networks.
Intermec’s data capture devices include wands, scanners, imagers, charge coupled devices, laser scanners and wedges, as well as some of the newest personal scanning devices available today. Intermec’s radio frequency identification technology allows companies to track items automatically with read and write capability unparalleled in the industry - without the line of sight requirements of traditional data collection.Intermec was founded in 1966 as Interface Mechanisms, a Washington state start-up company developing dual-image tape, a machine readable code used to compile data for the phototypesetting industry. One of the company’s early leaders, Dr. Dave Allais, went on to invent Code 39, still one of the world’s most widely used bar code symbologies. Today Intermec is a $900 million company doing business in more than 80 countries. It is the largest public company based in Snohomish County, Washington, with more than 2,600 employees worldwide.
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