We provide bar code and radio frequency ID systems for tracking your product flow through manufacturing or distribution facilities. These technologies and their associated software are increasingly important with regard to current trends in "supply chain management."

IPS can provide the hardware and software to integrate identification tracking systems into your current computer systems. Increased efficiency of inventory and raw materials management are significant benefits of adopting automated ID systems.

IPS provided an electrical energy utility company with this spread spectrum radio frequency (RF) linked hand-held computer system for 'order picking' from the utilities warehouse.

The previous paper system was neither fast nor accurate enough for the demands placed upon the warehouse, especially during major natural disasters such as tornados.

The warehouse operation extends over 1/2 mile, includes indoor, shelved items and larger, outdoor equipment such as insulators, poles and transformers. The RF system allows personnel to recieve a 'pick ticket' on the screen of their hand-held computer unit at any location in or around the warehouse. As they pick items to fill an order and scan the bar code for ID verification, inventory is automatically updated.

The system is extremely reliable, accurate and exceeds the customer's expectations, even during heavy demand.

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IPS provided an automobile manufacturer with this two dimensional bar code ID system to verify correct sequence of wheel subassemblies delivered to the main assembly line for installation on the vehicle.

It is vital for the line flow that wheel assemblies delivered to the plant be accurately conveyed to the appropriate vehicle for installation. Our system reads the wheel stack to verify the correct sequence before allowing conveyance to the assembly line.

Our custom software checks the scanned code and permits re-reads or manual entry when required.

Two dimensional code, being inherently tolerant of damaged or distorted labels, ensures a reliable link in the flow of wheels, even when the label is damaged.

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IPS provided this RFID tracking system to an automobile manufacturer.

This tracking system provided a method for verifying vehicle options as they are selected from bins for assembly and to download appropriate torque settings based on the vehicle option data. The option data is collected from a production control system on a per-body basis and is sent to PLCs. This bit pattern can be used to set the correct parts bin to monitor and/or to send a torque setting to a torque tool.

This automated process increased production output and efficiency by insuring that each vehicle received the correct options and torque settings.