Audit Criteria – Balancing Accuracy and Productivity
Categories: In Warehouse Travel Optimization| Warehouse Management System
Imagine sending to QC only the orders that are most important or most likely to be wrong. Customer wants, needs, and perceived needs are […]
Mobile Technology in the Warehouse: Infographic
Categories: In Warehouse Travel Optimization| Warehouse Management System
Late last year Lucas did a little research into how DCs are combining voice with scanning and other mobile technologies, and we’ve turned the […]
Voice Picking Races: Smartphones vs. Industrial Mobile Computers
Categories: Order Picking| Voice Technology
The Voice vs. RF Debate: Checkstrings or Barcodes?
Categories: Order Picking| Voice Technology
Two weeks ago I started a discussion on LinkedIn about the growing number of DCs that are combining voice and scanning to get the […]
Voice and Scanning Is Nothing New
Categories: Voice Technology
I was struck dumb recently when a manufacturer of voice-picking hardware announced the industry’s first-ever voice and scanning solution. Lucas has been delivering applications […]
Voice Training – Simple, Adaptable and Effective
Categories: User Experience| Voice Technology
Imagine ramping up new pickers to full productivity in less than a week. “Just the initial training itself went from hours to literally minutes […]
Taking the Fear Out of Seasonal Hiring in the Warehouse
Categories: Ecommerce| User Experience
You may have seen a recent advertisement in DC Velocity about ModCloth, the fast-growing e-tail apparel company. ModCloth is a recognized trend-setter, both in […]
Installing Voice With a Legacy WMS? You’re Not Alone
Categories: Voice Technology| Warehouse Management System
One of the common misconceptions about using voice-directed warehouse applications is that you should upgrade your WMS before installing the new solution. The reality […]
Making Voice Applications as Easy as Pinch-to-Zoom
Categories: Order Picking| User Experience
We spend a lot of time thinking about ease of use at Lucas, and not just when we are testing customer applications in the […]
What Can Food Distributors Learn from Remington Arms?
Categories: In Warehouse Travel Optimization| Order Picking
Lately I’ve been reading a lotabout product traceability in the foodservice and grocery industries, so I was interested to see how a company in […]
Technophobia, Skepticism, and Voice Picking
Categories: User Experience| Voice Technology
A Lucas project manager just returned from a Lucas voice-picking deployment with a story of “Joe The Selector” who thought voice was never going […]
Batch Picking Bucket Brigades Fire Up Voice Picking Productivity
Categories: Order Picking| Voice Technology
A little over ten years ago the first voice directed bucket brigade started up in the Deerfield Beach, FL distribution center of Republic National […]
