Bar coding solutions

Bar coding solutions help companies collect, transmit, and manipulate data in ways that dramatically increase productivity while reducing costs.   Typical bar coding applications include: work in progress / labor tracking, asset tracking, receiving and put away and inventory control.

Work in progress / Labor tracking

Automated data collection makes it easy and convenient for businesses to track labor costs, as well as work-in-progress. This technology can be used almost anywhere.

When it comes to tracking time and attendance, many businesses still rely on employees to manually record their hours. As a result, the company may loose money through over-reported hours or clerical errors. On top of this loss, managers often have trouble obtaining up to the minute information for job costing purposes. With an automated bar coding solution from Powerlink Technologies, that same business can now track crucial information on every employee from the second he or she scans their bar coded or magnetic strip badge.

Managers can use the information gathered by the system not only to create accurate time sheets for every employee but may also use this information to arrange schedules and update budgets.

Tracking work-in-progress can have a significant impact on your business. A bar code system allows managers to easily track all jobs on the production floor. As workers complete various tasks, they enter their transactions on readers which transmit data back to the data collection system.

The result is that managers get real-time as well as historical information about each job. They can then use this information to make better decisions at each step of the production cycle.

Assets tracking

A Company with accurate real-time information about its assets has the power to make better business decisions. Most organizations with a large investment in fixed assets need to track physical location, maintenance, and movement of their assets from the moment of acquisition through retirement. If done manually, this process is extremely labor-intensive and prone to errors. Even if the task is accomplished without errors, finding the piece of information you are looking for can be a cumbersome task.

Companies who implement a Powerlink Technologies automated data collection system find it significantly easier to manage their assets, whatever they are. Assets will last longer since stringent maintenance records are kept on every item. Powerful reports about valuation, depreciation and other important data relating to assets may be produced for management purposes.