Since the industrial revolutions of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the manufacturing industry has been a crucial component of the economies of virtually every country in the world. The manufacturing industry is large, competitive, and sensitive to economic swings – because of these characteristics, manufacturers need to look for ways to differentiate themselves from competition. Datalogic believes that, as the first point on the supply chain, manufacturers can use AIDC technology to gain a competitive advantage.

For the purposes of applying AIDC technology, manufacturing can be divided into:

• Light Manufacturing
• Medium Manufacturing
• Heavy Manufacturing

Datalogic is aware of all the benefits manufacturers are able to gain from implementing AIDC technology because it uses its own AIDC technology to improve internal manufacturing processes. Some of the applications AIDC technology improves are:

• Visible product tracking
• Improved inventory management
• Efficient and accountable production

Manufacturing and Bar Code Scanning
Bar codes can be responsible for numerous improvements within manufacturing plants such as:

• Visible product tracking – technological advances such as 2D bar codes, time and temperature labels, and image based scanning are empowering manufacturers to have greater control of their products throughout the supply chain.
• Accurate and Efficient organization – bar code scanning allows materials to be quickly stored or located.
• Cost-saving inventory management – bar code scanning keeps reliable and accurate data about inventory levels, reducing stock-outs, overstocks, and emergency shipments.
• Increased efficiency – Datalogic Scanning bar code scanners have both industry-leading scan rates and unsurpassed reading of poor quality labels which eliminates hand-keying operations.