Manufacturing and Distribution

Product Catalog: Wireless Solutions: Spectralink: Manufacturing and Distribution

Like many other businesses, manufacturing companies are dealing with increasing cost pressures and higher service demands from their customers. Distribution center operators are refining their processes in order to reduce costs and improve the level of service to their customers. In order to attain these objectives, management must monitor and control large work areas throughout the day, a unique characteristic of manufacturing and distribution sites. The physical size and noise of manufacturing and distribution operations, coupled with cost of production and material handling problems, make these sites highly susceptible to effective communications. WWCC wireless business solutions can provide real-time, 2-way communication over a large noisy environment.

This translates into many benefits such as:

Reduce Assembly Line Down Time

Accessibility of key management and support people is a priority. Minimizing the down time for any assembly line helps improve operations. Equipping key management and support personnel with wireless handsets can improve communications. Personnel can be called directly to make decisions and get answers. Users of wireless handsets will benefit from an improvement in productivity by shortening the turn-around time for problem resolution.

Reduce Overhead Paging

Listening for overhead pages works against full concentration on the task at hand and leads to lower productivity. Equipping key individuals with wireless handsets can reduce the use of overhead paging. The frequency of paging messages is reduced and the ambient noise level in the building lowered. Productivity might increase as personnel concentrate on the task at hand without having to listen to every page.

Increase Key Personnel Time

In a large working environment, both employees and managers lose time locating each other on the production floor. A wireless handset maximizes the accessibility of personnel when on the plant floor. The user of the wireless handset can involve others in telephone discussions quickly to help ensure that the best possible decisions are made.