Belgravium launch VRS, a new ‘Voice Recognition System’ A fully operational ‘Voice Recognition System’ safer working environment, reduced training times, and standard Windows-based mobile computer terminals. For further information please visit the Belgravium from Belgravium Ltd is now available for lower turnover of staff. Costs of printers, paper and These terminals are invariably of much lower cost than web-site: www.belgravium.com demonstration and implementation. The system other materials associated with alternate methods of their ‘dedicated’ equivalent and have the advantage of has an operating platform based upon Voxware’s order selection are reduced or eliminated. being truly ‘multi-modal’. The terminal’s ability to be a Press Contact: VoiceXML, VoxBrowser™ software which enables standard barcode device for part of the day, and then Karen Fotherby Sponsored by Proteus Software Ltd real-time voice solutions for standard warehouse Key Software Features: instantly switch to Voice mode, ensures that it has the Belgravium operations. The software is compatible with flexibility to help address the complex business Campus Road several of the mobile data capture terminals within • Activity Based Streamlining: Voice has the ability to demands which face most warehouse and distribution Listerhills Science Park the Belgravium range. reach to conditions as they occur, directing and operations. Other key features include; Bradford WAREHOUSE CRUNCH coordinating workers to accomplish tasks in the BD7 1HR Belgravium’s Voice Recognition System (VRS) has the most effective way. • Maximum Wireless Interoperability: Spread United Kingdom but the real ‘crunch’ is whether the items ‘warehouse I know the immediate response to a ‘credit ability to support increasing numbers of distribution • Adaptive Voice Recognition: a continuous speech spectrum, GSM/GPRS, GPS and Bluetooth Radio leave correctly and on time. crunch’, where crunch’ is to stop spending, but in the case of operations within a range of industry sectors. Food recognizer is impervious to high noise and options. E-Mail: [email protected] the right items improved systems that could be false Service, Grocery and Cold Storage industries, Retail and automatically ignores workers conversations with • Industry Standard Operating System : Windows Tel: 00 44 (0) 1274 741860 So what might cause a warehouse crunch? do not leave economy. A new, or better system should cost General Merchandising through to Healthcare and colleagues. CE.Net Pharmaceuticals can all benefit from the proven benefits • Continuous Speech Recogniser: workers can speak • Touch Screen Display: A high contrast ¼ VGA touch Remember in our terminology a warehouse at the correct justify itself, and you may well find that the of voice technology. Belgravium have enjoyed an early with natural pace and rhythm rather than pausing screen display, ideal for use in direct sunlight. crunch occurs when items are apparently there time. additional cost is more than offset by the sales ‘win’ for the system, with the Jersey Co-Op group between words or characters. • Internal Scanner Options: Bar code scanning and but not leaving correctly and on time. The first ‘warehouse crunch’ savings. At Proteus announcing roll-out within their Jersey and Guernsey • Language Blueprints: workers can quickly set RFID tag reading. example is obvious; the correct stock is in the I have a book by Richard Software we have also introduced a number of distribution facilities. up user profiles. • Optimum Power Management: 12 hour battery life • Multi-Lingual: Supports the simultaneous use with a maximum 2 hour charging time. warehouse but cannot be found. We are Koch entitled ‘The 80/20 Principle’ which has initiatives that will allow you to spread the The significant benefits of the Belgravium Voice of multiple distinct languages. searching for an item to pick but it is not the strapline ‘the secret of getting more out of cost of the system across its lifespan, so that Recognition System are fully realised when applied to a where we expected it. It may have been put less’. This may be what many of you are the timing of the costs is more closely aligned range of standard warehouse activities, including order Key Hardware Features (mobile computers): It might sound like a new breakfast in the wrong location, or its location wrongly experiencing with your warehouses: a with the benefits. These options, including picking, replenishment, goods received, stock checking, cereal or chocolate bar, but it’s not that recorded. Alternatively, we may have thought continuing demand to get more out of less. SaaS where the costs of the system are linked quality assurance, returns and shorts processing. Hands- Many of the voice recognition systems on today’s free operation can result in productivity improvements market use a dedicated voice terminal which cannot be sort of crunch. we have the right items, but subsequently find Inevitably in these difficult and uncertain times to the volume of transactions processed of up to 20% and accuracy levels of 99%. Voice allows utilised for alternative applications. Belgravium have that the items were booked in incorrectly. It there will be an ongoing drive to process the through the system, are welcome facilities to reductions in warehouse operational costs providing a developed their voice system around the use of A credit crunch occurs when the normal flow could be that the correct items are in the required volumes through your warehouse help reduce the initial costs. of money through the banking sector is correct place, but when we get there we find with less staff, and less space. In these WAREHOUSE SAFETY .CO.UK Yellow turns Green impeded. Following similar thinking, a that there is not a much as we thought there circumstances there are two things you could A powerful system will help clear the warehouse crunch occurs when the normal was, due to earlier picking errors. We may do. Firstly read the book, which will help you blockages in your warehouse so as to allow It’s finally here! The industry has been crying out for it for too long and at last the wait is over!! For the Jungheinrich has already produced and is currently flow of goods through the warehouse is find that stock we have reserved for one assess where your priorities should lie, and the smooth flow of product in and out, and After many years of providing the UK’s highest quality floor marking systems and solutions to the Warehouse and environmentally testing a range of tow tractors that run on the fuel. impeded – the warehouse pipe becomes customer has inadvertently been sent out to secondly consider how your warehouse help ensure that your business beats the Logistics industry, ASG Services accepted the challenge and have created a Warehouse Safety division, supplying conscious forklift Early results are extremely encouraging and a blocked. When a credit crunch occurs there is someone else. The next scenario that may processes could be made more efficient and ‘warehouse crunch’. everything under one roof, as well as project management and installation as you would expect from ASG. truck specifier, the prototype methanol-powered forklift is not far a severe shortage of money, so the equivalent impede delivery is that we have stock of the effective. Improved systems have been shown energy away. in the warehouse is a severe shortage of correct item, but it is out of date. Stock may to help alleviate some of the ‘warehouse Howard Turvey MD, Proteus Software The new arm is fittingly branded ‘Warehouse Safety’, providing a single point of purchase for warehouse safety requirements of products, and related services. It is a new avenue for the company and will be a great resource for the Warehouse the design, It is our belief that the methanol solution represents goods. There is a further parallel. In a credit have been incorrectly rotated, or perhaps the crunch’ constraints highlighted earlier – those and Logistics industry. development, one of the best options and is particularly suited crunch the banks may have money and savers items we have do not meet the specific shelf factors that impact the smooth flow of goods www.proteussoftware.com production, for use with small trucks such as low level order may be depositing, so there is money coming life requirements of our customer. Finally, it from your warehouse. An easy method for for further information please email: Products offered will include, of course floor marking and associated products, but maintenance and pickers and powered pallet trucks - which, of in and being stored by the bank, but not could be that we are simply unable to handle locating stock, minimising items in the wrong [email protected] also traffic barriers, guard rails, traffic calming products, mirrors, signs, labels, anti disposal processes course, make up the bulk of fleets in the retail and collapse meshing, rack protection and elevated walkways, to name just a few. of the truck all have logistics sectors. enough is going out in the form of loans, and the required volume of work. Even though we place, better processes for receipting and or telephone: +44(0) 121 717 7474 Clearly WarehouseSafety.co.uk will be going a little further than others have, their to be considered that is the ‘crunch’. It is not that the money have the right stock and it is in the right place, putaway, proper rotation, and improved focus is on the needs of warehouses, which means the customer receives the most when deciding which manufacturer has the In the transition away from fossil fuels, a wide does not exist, but that it is not moving our productivity levels are not good enough to efficiency and accuracy are all benefits that appropriate and effective package every time, and not what the sales person most eco-friendly offering, says Bill Goodwin, variety of fuel options will evolve and the wants to sell.