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Warehouses are busy environments and seem only to be getting busier. With the growth of eCommerce and shrinking lead times, there’s more pressure than ever to move products quickly, maintain transparency in the supply chain, and elevate the customer experience.

For fifteen years, we've always been about finding ways to make the warehouse workstation mobile and productive. But our new world in 2020 has created needs and solutions we may not have always anticipated. Whether it is businesses operating at full capacity or those just trying to stay open enough to support their customers, there has been a sudden recognition for the need to maintain physical distancing and personal spaces to keep everyone safe and to keep supply chains healthy.

Mobile Powered Solutions reduce footsteps and errors in typical warehouse and factory floor applications that use PC’s, laptops, printers, scales, etc.

The latest news from Newcastle Systems includes "No assembly required".  We have improved the delivery process by assembling the workstations in our manufacturing plant and packaging them for you to unpack in minutes. You can easily have the mobile workstation with portable power unpacked and rolling in minutes. We have assembly manuals, but soon they will become obsolete.

Last week we shared with everyone a short video we made to demonstrate a new innovation in warehouse automation we are calling “Follow Me” (see it again here). It’s a drive engine mounted on one of our mobile-powered carts – but with a twist. Rather than start and stop using physical controls, the “Follow Me” feature enables the cart to follow the operator at their own pace, starting and stopping as they do. We were drawn to looking deeper into this because of the potential for hands-free applications, especially for picking in conjunction with a voice-collection system or for other tasks like inventory or inspection and maintenance.

A mobile powered workstation cart is a technology that works in your favor. It enables automatic ID transactions to be completely mobile. This saves on the cost of movement required for printing labels since this is easily done anywhere in your business premises. This wireless technology integrates power supply and then maneuvers computers, printers and scanners wherever they are. When you capitalize on the auto-id technologies, you are able to establish mobile on-demand label printing stations and mobile shipping/receiving stations.

The most conspicuous advantage that comes with using a mobile workstation cart is the fact that inefficiencies resulting from wasted steps to the printer, wrong inventory counts, inaccurate labeling, delays, process errors due to the manual system use and incorrect shipment are eliminated. These are usually the main challenges including lost productivity that occur when you do not use an on-demand label printing in your business.