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Presented by:

Shane LaChappelle

Manager, Product Marketing

Improve and Optimize

Facility Efficiency

With

Real Time Monitoring

Sponsored by:

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Agenda

• Potential Inefficiencies at a Distribution Center

• The Real Cost of No-reads

• Introducing Machine Vision

• Benefits

• Case Studies

• Questions

Potential Inefficiencies at a Distribution Center

Why Do You Want High Read Rates?

= 10,000 boxes

110,000 BOXES PER DAY 5,000

BOXES PER HOUR

38.5 MILLION BOXES PER YEAR

12AM 6AM noon 6PM 12AM 3AM 9AM 3PM 9PM JAN MAR MAY JUL DEC FEB APR JUN AUG SEP OCT NOV

99 385,000 NO-READS

PER YEAR

27.5 REWORK MAN

HOURS PER DAY

3.5 OPERATORS TO

HANDLE REWORK INDUSTRY STANDARD

.8 %

= 10,000 no-reads

77,000 NO-READS

PER YEAR

5.5 REWORK MAN

HOURS PER DAY

<1 OPERATORS TO

HANDLE REWORK

The return is MILLIONS in savings

Introducing

Machine Vision

to the

Distribution Center

RTM @ Distribution Facility Main Shipping Sorter

Tote Scanning Pallet Scanning Hand Sorting

Induct Stations Print and Apply Lines

Web-based Interface

Real Time Monitoring provides a web-based means for graphically representing the health of an industrial barcode reader installation:

Collecting and charting read

statistics over time.

Providing an overview of a

facility’s performance by aggregating data

from multiple scan points.

Leveraging the full power of machine vision software to analyze NoRead images to find

potential problems in the customer’s

process.

Analyzing No Reads Causing Process Issues UPSIDE-DOWN

PACKAGES

MIS-FEED

LABEL

CREASED IN

BOX FLAPS

FLAGGED

LABEL

LINE

STOP 0 UNACCOUNTED

FAILURES

UPSIDE-DOWN

PACKAGES MIS-FEED

LABEL

CREASED IN

BOX FLAPS

FLAGGED

LABEL

LINE

STOP

RTM Website Overview

RTM Device Grouping

RTM Realtime Performance

– Dashboard stats for last hour, 24 hours, and 48 hours

RTM Performance Overview

– Total number of good reads and NoReads from the chosen time period

– Refined detail about read rates

– Interactive graph

RTM Image Classification

• Image Classification/NoRead Image Analysis data

RTM Image Classifcation List

• Image List and Classification Details

Benefits of Real Time Monitoring

Web based interface for reader performance monitoring

Automatic defect classification of any package that fails to read

Scalable architecture for facility or enterprise coverage

Case Study – Ecommerce Read-Rates

Case Study – Fulfillment Center

Questions

For More Information:

Speaker email:

shane.lachappelle@cognex.com

Website: www.cognex.com

Or visit ProMat 2015 Booth #4915