Upgrading the supply chain with Honeywell voice and mobility solutions

How can you transform your supply chain operations and ensure competitiveness in the market with voice and mobility solutions from Renovotec and Honeywell? 

Improving productivity and efficiency gains are vital for the profitability of businesses in the supply chain. Enabling them to turn out a higher number of orders, meet their SLAs and guarantee customer satisfaction.  

Technology underpins all of this, and recent innovations in voice and mobility have the potential to take supply chain operations further than ever before. The Honeywell CK67 Rugged Mobile Computer in particular is one of the most cutting-edge mobility products on the market, featuring greatly enhanced capabilities and design.  

In this latest article from the Knowledge Base, we explore how technology upgrades in voice and mobility are driving operational success for the supply chain.  

Workforce Efficiency 

Voice Picking

Voice-directed headsets relay instructions on the go, making regular and repetitive tasks much faster and less taxing for workers.  

Not only does this lead to a faster completion rate, but it also means staff resource can be better utilised across your business. Honeywell’s devices can even connect voice-directed headsets to your warehouse management system (WMS), to automatically update stock inventory.  

Moreover, this significantly reduces potential human errors by making these processes more straightforward and seamless. Voice can even reduce training times by giving training on the go for workers, which is available from Honeywell in a variety of supported languages.  

Barcode Scanning

Likewise, as one of its innovative warehousing solutions, the Honeywell CK67 makes order fulfilment much faster by greatly increasing efficiency in barcode scanning.  

Its high-powered XLR scan engine means it scans quickly at a considerable range, regardless of the use case. Furthermore, like Honeywell’s voice-directed technology, it can sync with your WMS to quickly process precise information.  

Thus, increasing visibility throughout your supply chain, so you can quickly and effectively optimise operations based on these insights.  

Safety & Reliability 

Hands-Free, Eyes-Free

Voice enables workers to be hands-free and eyes-free while receiving instructions for processes like pick up and put away. As mentioned earlier, this not only makes their work more efficient, it also actually fosters a safer process for your workers.  

Users can instead focus more on their surroundings, staying alert and aware of any potential dangers. This in turn means they are also more likely to recognise and resolve these potential dangers before they develop further.  

Reliable Design 

The CK67 from Honeywell also features an ultra-rugged design that makes ideal for even the most demanding of environments.  

It has one of the best in class drop and tumble ratings, withstanding up to 8ft drops, 4,000 1.0m tumbles and functioning across a range of operating temperatures. Its ability to endure harsh environments, as well as potential accidents, ensures reliable long-term performance with maximum uptime for your operations.  

Scaling Productivity 

Unlocking New Gains

Maximising your productivity gains is an essential part of supply chain management, whether you operate in warehousing, manufacturing or logistics.  

However, Honeywell’s voice and mobility technology solutions can not only increase these gains but also continue to scale them in line with your operations. Enhancing productivity across your business.  

These innovations from Honeywell are designed for a wide variety of different tasks, making them dynamic and highly customisable to your evolving business needs. Through real-time monitoring of throughput targets, and inventory levels, they also allow for continuous process improvements.  

Maximising Uptime

Moreover, they are also designed for long work cycles with an impressive battery life.  

Its voice-directed headsets utilise a powerful 7,000 mAh battery. While the Honeywell CK67 Rugged Mobile Computer has a complete set of accessories including Universal charge batteries. They are adaptable for any Honeywell mobile computer form and have an easily swappable cup. Making it highly adaptable and easy to charge.  

Moreover, warehousing technology solutions from Honeywell and Renovotec also come with hot-swapping support. Thus, ensuring that your technology is always supported, so you can rely on consistent high-powered performance.  

Cost-Saving Capabilities 

Cutting Down Expenses

Warehousing solutions often focus on optimising stock management, as the better you optimise your inventory the more you reduce your holding costs.  

Voice technology is designed, through real-time stock updating, to ensure your stock is taken in, distributed and transported out as efficiently as possible. Even without any manual input. Moreover, it’s high accuracy removes the cost of re-keying order amendments, picking confirmation and catch weights.  

It also has the additional benefit of cutting out the costs of printing and distributing picking documents and reducing administrative overheads overall.  

Future Proofing

Long-term investments in technology that will hold up, regardless of future innovations, are considerably more cost-effective than having to constantly buy new iterations.  

The CK67 has dynamic future-proofed features, that include support for Wi-Fi 6E, 5G and powerful processing power for traditional and new applications. It also uses the Mobility Edge platform, which provides a durable, stable and secure foundation for long-lasting solutions.  

Additionally, the Honeywell CK67 Rugged Mobile Computer has 50% lower operating costs and up to 66% lower deployment costs than competitors. Making it a cost-effective investment in both the short-term and long-term.  

Ergonomic Experience 

Improving Working Experiences

Ensuring your workforce has positive working experiences is key to retaining skilled workers, as well as attracting new talent.  

One of the primary benefits of using Honeywell’s voice-directed devices, for processes like voice picking, is the support that they give to your workers. The devices are designed to be lightweight and comfortable to wear. They also avoid encumbering workers with paperwork to check and verify instructions.  

As well as cutting out unnecessary steps such as updating online systems with the stock they’ve transported, making their workflow much simpler. 

Ergonomic Design

An ergonomic design is also important in mobile solutions. Not only because these devices are used day in and out by your workers. But also, because ergonomic designs make devices much more intuitive to use, thereby making training easier.  

The CK67 features a larger screen, an ergonomic scan handle for easy holding, a keypad with updated buttons for responsiveness, better keypad spacing and is additionally made to be lightweight.  

Summary 

Voice and mobility technology solutions are leading to gains in productivity in a variety of different areas across the supply chain. From driving up efficiency to improving working environments and making operations more cost-effective, these technologies are quickly becoming crucial to staying competitive in the market.  

At Renovotec, we work directly with Honeywell to deliver cutting-edge, end-to-end solutions featuring the latest innovations in voice and mobility. Achieve your operational goals and upgrade your business technology today with the complete solution implementation expertise of Renovotec and the technology innovation of Honeywell.

Talk to our experts today for a free consultation on how a tailored technology solution can transform your supply chain operations, here.