When your business is faced with ever-increasing productivity expectations, shorter timelines, and rising labor costs—what business isn’t?—you need easy-to-deploy solutions that elevate quality and drive performance. Put simply, there’s never a more important time to look for solutions that help you do it faster, with fewer errors, and for lower cost than right now.

Today, technology is often the answer for many business leaders, especially intelligent automation solutions. In fact, in the warehouse and distribution segment alone, more than half the business leaders surveyed by Zebra indicated that they expect planning to fully or partially automate workflows, with 29% of decision makers indicating that they plan to deploy full automation for some repetitive tasks within the next two years.

To keep pace, your business should take a detailed look at automation solutions, too. But what if you’re not ready to reengineer your entire business around automation?

Quick Hits and Rapid ROI

One solution that promises to deliver the most bang for the buck with the easiest implementation pathway is fixed industrial scanning.

Fixed industrial scanning is an easy way to replace a labor-intensive workflow with a hands-free automated solution. The approach is relatively simple: Instead of a worker using a handheld barcode scanner to manually scan parts or packages as they move through your operation, a fixed industrial scanner can be mounted to automatically gather the same (or even more) data.

Replacing manual barcode scanning with a fixed scanner can help you reduce errors, relieve bottlenecks, and lower costs with minimal upfront investment and little or no disruption to your operation.

Typically, fixed scanners make it easy to integrate custom lighting or filters to compensate for a wide variety of ambient lighting conditions and different substrates, so they give you more advanced scanning capabilities than you get with handheld devices. This allows you to customize and preconfigure the scanner to deliver consistent results, even with difficult barcodes and challenging lighting conditions.

In most applications, the fixed scanner will work faster, too.

A fixed scanner doesn’t have to be linked to complex robotics, a massive IoT network, or machine learning systems in order to deliver notable ROI. That makes fixed industrial scanning an incremental step toward automation that can be taken without reengineering vast areas of your operation. Simply deploy a fixed scanner in place of a manual data collection point, and you can immediately begin reaping the benefits of automation: lower labor costs, greater efficiency, and better accuracy.

The key point is that fixed industrial scanning lets you start small and allows you to maximize your ROI as you automate and modernize your operations, one step at a time.

Zebra Offers a Simple Way to Get Started

So, if you’re interested in the capabilities of fixed industrial scanning, what’s the easiest way to get started? Well, for our money, nobody offers better fixed industrial scanning solutions for manufacturing and logistics applications than Zebra.

First, Zebra is the global leader in data collection and image capture solutions that are built to stand up to manufacturing, warehouse, and distribution applications. There just isn’t anyone who understands how to collect data better than they do, and they’ve continued to demonstrate that with their portfolio of Fixed Industrial Scanners and Machine Vison Smart Cameras.

The first key is simplicity. Zebra’s fixed industrial scanning solutions are all built on Zebra Aurora, an easy-to-master software platform that makes it simple to setup, deploy, and manage their entire range of fixed scanners and smart cameras. This makes Zebra solutions the perfect fit for a business that needs an easy pathway into automation—with Zebra solutions, you’ll be up and running practically right out of the box.

But just because Zebra’s fixed industrial scanning solutions are simple doesn’t mean they aren’t powerful, too. That’s because Zebra built maximum adaptability into the entire portfolio, allowing you to buy what you need today while giving you the ability to add advanced capabilities in the future without buying new hardware. When you’re ready to add different symbologies, need to increase scan rates, or are ready to implement machine vision applications, you can upgrade with a simple change to your software license.

The Expertise You Need to Maximize Success

When it comes to industrial automation solutions, Revere Electric and Zebra are your dream team. We bring you comprehensive expertise and experience, and Zebra brings you the strength of the #1 global leader in data capture and imaging technologies. Contact Revere Electric Supply today to learn how Zebra’s fixed industrial scanning solutions can help make your business better, smarter, and faster than ever before.