Zebra Technologies Expands Location Solutions Portfolio for Industrial Markets
June 28 2018 - 2:34PM
Business Wire
Zebra MotionWorks® helps leading businesses
turn location intelligence into improved performance
Zebra Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: ZBRA), the market leader
in rugged mobile computers, barcode scanners and printers enhanced
with software and services to enable real-time enterprise
visibility, today unveiled the industry’s most comprehensive
portfolio of business-class location solutions for the
manufacturing and transportation and logistics industries. Zebra
MotionWorksTM automatically senses the location of assets and
inventory, helping improve employee safety, streamlining production
lines, and delivering actionable insights to increase productivity
and efficiency.
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Zebra MotionWorks is based on Zebra’s industry-leading RFID
technology. For example, the company is the “Official On-Field
Player Tracking Provider” for the NFL which demonstrates how Zebra
delivers real-time visibility insights via RFID for organizations
from the goal line to the assembly line and everywhere in between.
Earlier this year, Zebra Technologies was recognized as a Visionary
in Gartner, Inc.’s first-ever 2018 Magic Quadrant for Indoor
Location Services, Worldwide1. According to the report, “(clients)
are looking for a vendor that can be a trusted advisor to provide a
single framework that integrates multiple technologies to solve
multiple location issues while eliminating redundancy and providing
a lower overall cost.”
Powered by SavannaTM, Zebra’s data intelligence platform,
MotionWorks is a portfolio of flexible and customizable, end-to-end
solutions that integrate operational and edge data from multiple
sources – including Ultra-Wideband (UWB), UHF RFID tags, Bluetooth
Low Energy (BLE) beacons and cameras – to create insights that
mobilize action to solve business needs. The portfolio includes
innovative options such as the MotionWorks Asset solution, the
MotionWorks Material solution and the MotionWorks Yard
solution.
KEY USE CASES FOR MOTIONWORKS AND RFID
- The MotionWorks Asset solution allows
businesses to track and manage important assets with detailed,
on-time information about the location, condition, and state of
their enterprise resources. Automated asset tracking saves time and
money, making operations more efficient by ensuring assets are
available when and where they are needed.
- An aviation manufacturer saved nearly
$1 million in replacement costs and improved productivity by using
this solution to improve the visibility of their parts and
significantly reduced the time spend searching for assets.
- The MotionWorks Material solution helps
manufacturers manage and automate the flow of material for their
business. With seamless integration into other plant floor and
enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications, it provides
valuable insights into smarter material usage and helps ensure
just-in-time delivery, creating operational efficiencies and
reducing costs.
- A European automotive manufacturer
saved $750,000 in inventory carrying costs, improved labor
productivity by almost 20 percent and decreased on-hand
inventory from local suppliers from seven days to two days
with this solution.
- The MotionWorks Yard solution
facilitates the continuous flow of material and goods between
transportation systems, distribution centers, and manufacturing
plants. It also increases gate transaction speed, improving
switcher productivity and ensuring the right trailer arrives at the
right door at the right time.
- This solution has helped a North
American retailer reduce the average trailer
check-in time by 80 percent – decreasing labor costs and dwell
time while improving yard efficiency and conserving fuel costs. By
getting the right trailer to the right dock door at the right time,
the retailer has improved supply chain velocity and enabled faster
product movement to the retail floor.
- Using the Savanna Location Engine,
Zebra’s MotionWorks solutions provide enterprise-level scalability
that can support thousands of sites and users, and hundreds of
thousands of tracked resources, as well as the capability to locate
Zebra® mobile devices. These solutions provide data to other
enterprise applications and include a user interface and console
that can manage the system and offer reports, events, alerts and
actions at the enterprise resource level.
- As part of the MotionWorks
announcement, Zebra is also introducing three new RFID fixed
combination reader/antenna solutions, designed to track items as
they travel into, through and out of a facility.
SUPPORTING QUOTE
Matt Seltz, General Manager of Location Solutions, Zebra
Technologies
“With its global reach, Zebra offers the industry’s most
comprehensive portfolio of location solutions ranging from simple
beacons on packages to the most complex tracking of athletes in
real time, helping turn edge data intelligence into business value.
Zebra MotionWorks helps manufacturers and transportation and
logistics companies know the exact location and condition of their
assets, people and goods to make smarter, faster decisions that
improve operational efficiency, enhance business processes,
identify new avenues for revenue growth and meet the market’s
shifting demands.”
1 *Gartner, Inc., "Magic Quadrant Indoor Location Services,
Worldwide," Tim Zimmerman, Annette Zimmermann, 8 January 2018.
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