Learn how the features you select now can protect & extend your investment years into the future.

For companies that are evaluating mobile computers, several key considerations should drive the decision. Among these are whether the solution fits now, whether it will fit in the future and whether it will pay for itself in the short term. This white paper explains how the features you select now can protect and extend your investment years into the future.

CONCLUSION
Nearly every feature on a mobile computer carries implications for how well the device can support changing requirements and remain in service. Businesses do not need to know their exact requirements for tomorrow to make good device decisions today.

Instead, they need to be able to identify the features that provide flexibility. The table below lists the features that determine if mobile computers are future-friendly or raise red flags about their ability to provide a long life cycle.

The value mobile computers bring to warehouse and DC operations relates directly to how long they are kept in service, which in turn relates directly to how the devices are built and the features they include. Choosing wisely lets organizations cost-effectively introduce new business processes and technologies that will increase the value of automation, rather than driving up the total cost of ownership.

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How the Features You Select Now Can Protect & Extend Your Investment Years into the Future
Offered Free by: Intermec Technologies Corporation

ABOUT INTERMEC'S CK3
The Intermec CK3 mobile computer supports multiple uses and technologies in a single device reducing equipment needs, training time and overall system cost. The CK3 can perform mobile computing, scanning, wireless printing, voice directed picking and RFID. Users have the ability to easily add functionality.

Add an IP30 and you have RFID to find product faster.

• Add portable or fixed printers and print wirelessly saving time to first label and transit time traveling to the printer.
• Add a scan handle for faster and more comfortable intensive scanning. The scanning capability is unmatched, to easily scan both 1D and 2D barcodes in any orientation, read poor quality/damaged barcodes, capture images and scans barcodes from 6 inches to 50 feet.
• Add voice module to get voice directed picking for faster and more accurate picks.
• Use all together to get multi-modal communications to get answers faster, act quicker, locate workers and communicate in real time.

The CK3 runs Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 and has support for voice/speech applications, and is available with Intermec’s Terminal Emulation and Browser software, which allows systems administrators to manage Web browsing and provide secure connectivity to browser-based data collection applications.

The CK3 includes integrated Bluetooth and Wi-Fi certified 802.11 a/b/g radios, is CCX certified and supports multiple wireless security protocols. Input options include a long-range imager capable of reading 1D and 2D bar codes, and Intermec’s IP30 snap-on RFID reader.

ABOUT INTERMEC
With more than 18,000 warehouse solutions installed worldwide, Intermec has extensive experience in helping customers create mobile and wireless technology platforms to improve operations immediately and take advantage of future opportunities.

Intermec mobile computers are rugged enough for years of service in warehousing and distribution environments and are flexible enough to support new peripherals, software applications and business processes as they are developed. With the flexibility of the CK3 mobile computer you have the ability to perform everyday applications and add on capability as the need arises.

Intermec Inc. (NYSE:IN) is a leader in global supply chain solutions and in the development, manufacture and integration of wired and wireless automated data collection, Intellitag® RFID (radio frequency identification), mobile computing systems, bar code printers and label media.

The company’s products and services are used by customers in many industries to improve productivity, quality and responsiveness of business operations, from supply chain management and enterprise resource planning to field sales and service. For more information, visit www.intermec.com.

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