Enhancing Food Distribution Inventory and Shipping with RS35 and its OCR for Recording Production Dates

As one of the world's leading animal feed manufacturers, farm business engagers, and food product developers, this Thai company has earned a reputation for excellence in its field. This company operates retail and food outlets, focusing on producing top-quality food that offers abundant nutrition and flavor. With a commitment to safety throughout its supply chain, this company promotes good health among consumers at affordable prices. Operating in 16 countries, this company aims to enhance convenience for customers through extensive distribution channels. Their food business spans processed food, ready-to-eat meals, restaurants, and distribution operations. Quality control is of first importance in their operations, extending even to the packaging of their products, which maintains product quality and extends shelf life to minimize food waste and loss.

In their daily operations, this company relies on mobile computers within their production factories. However, as their existing mobile computers had reached the end of their lifecycle (EOL) and were no longer in production, they initiated a search for suitable replacements.

Streamlining Inventory and Shipping Operations with RS35
In this pursuit, CipherLab’s mobile computer solutions came into consideration. The company explored the capabilities of the RS35 touch mobile computer, an Android-based device, along with its accompanying UHF RFID reader, which perfectly suited their requirements for replacing their previous devices.

In this company's older manufacturing facility, after packaging products such as chicken, ham, and hotdogs, they use the RS35 to scan product package barcodes and link them with logistics box barcodes before storage. The logistics box barcodes are then associated with pallet barcodes before securely storing them in refrigerated areas. In their new automated conveyor belt-equipped facility, antenna gates have been set up.

When preparing shipments, this company employs CipherLab’s RS35 along with the RS35 UHF RFID reader to scan pallets. CipherLab's RS35 incorporates a "keyboard emulation" feature, which enhance the processing speed of RFID tag data. This enhancement further accelerates the workflow, making the RS35 the ideal choice for this company's daily operations. Moreover, they rely on RS35’s OCR solution for recognizing food production dates. CipherLab's RS35 efficiently and accurately reads the production dates on food product packages using OCR functionality. This feature has virtually eliminated errors from manual data entry, a common pain point for the company.

The adoption of CipherLab's computing solutions has enhanced this company's operational efficiency, accuracy, and data management capabilities, especially in handling date information on food packages. With a commitment to quality and sustainability, this company continues to leverage innovative solutions to meet the demands of a dynamic and growing global food market.

OCR Date Identification for Food Quality and Safety
Among the competing models considered during their evaluation process, CipherLab’s RS35 stood out as the only provider offering a solution with OCR functionality. This feature effectively solves the pain point of errors that arise when staff manually enters dates printed on food packages.



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