Zebra's Industry Solutions can give your business a competitive advantage by connecting people, assets and data to help you make better decisions.
Scale and energize your retail strategy with a digital backbone that unifies your team, informs priorities and drives results with Zebra's retail technology solutions.
Zebra’s mobile computing, scanning, and printing solutions connect each operational area in your warehouse to give you the agility to realize transformational gains.
Zebra's healthcare technology solutions provide patient identity management, mobile health devices, and business intelligence data to improve efficiency.
Zebra’s manufacturing technology solutions enable manufacturers to become more agile, optimize plant floor performance and embrace market changes.
Zebra's market-leading solutions and products improve customer satisfaction with a lower cost per interaction by keeping service representatives connected with colleagues, customers, management and the tools they use to satisfy customers across the supply chain.
In today's world, the demands on transportation and logistics companies are higher than ever. Dedicated Warehouse, Fleet and Delivery, and Yard and Terminal solutions enable visibility to every aspect of your business and keep operations running flawlessly around the clock.
Zebra's hospitality technology solutions equip your hotel and restaurant staff to deliver superior customer and guest service through inventory tracking and more.
Empower your field workers with purpose-driven mobile technology solutions to help them capture and share critical data in any environment.
Learn how Zebra's public sector technology solutions empower state and local governments to improve efficiency with asset tracking and data capture devices.
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Zebra's range of mobile computers equip your workforce with the devices they need from handhelds and tablets to wearables and vehicle-mounted computers.
Zebra's desktop, mobile, industrial, and portable printers for barcode labels, receipts, RFID tags and cards give you smarter ways to track and manage assets.
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Empower the front line with prioritized task notification and enhanced communication capabilities for easier collaboration and more efficient task execution.
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Make the most of every stage of your scanning journey from deployment to optimization. Zebra's barcode scanner software lets you keep devices current and adapt them to your business needs for a stronger ROI across the full lifecycle.
RFID development, demonstration and production software and utilities help you build and manage your RFID deployments more efficiently.
RFID development, demonstration and production software and utilities help you build and manage your RFID deployments more efficiently.
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Advance your digital transformation and execute your strategic plans with the help of the right location and tracking technology.
Boost warehouse and manufacturing operations with Symmetry, an AMR software for fleet management of Autonomous Mobile Robots and streamlined automation workflows.
The Zebra Aurora suite of industrial automation software enables users of all experience levels to solve their track-and-trace and vision inspection needs.
Zebra Aurora Focus brings a new level of simplicity to controlling enterprise-wide manufacturing and logistics automation solutions. With this powerful interface, it’s easy to set up, deploy and run Zebra’s Fixed Industrial Scanners and Machine Vision Smart Cameras, eliminating the need for different tools and reducing training and deployment time.
Aurora Imaging Library™, formerly Matrox Imaging Library, machine-vision software development kit (SDK) has a deep collection of tools for image capture, processing, analysis, annotation, display, and archiving. Code-level customization starts here.
Aurora Design Assistant™, formerly Matrox Design Assistant, integrated development environment (IDE) is a flowchart-based platform for building machine vision applications, with templates to speed up development and bring solutions online quicker.
Designed for experienced programmers proficient in vision applications, Aurora Vision Library provides the same sophisticated functionality as our Aurora Vision Studio software but presented in programming language.
Aimed at machine and computer vision engineers, Aurora Vision Studio software enables users to quickly create, integrate and monitor powerful machine vision applications without the need to write a single line of code.
Adding innovative tech is critical to your success, but it can be complex and disruptive. Professional Services help you accelerate adoption, and maximize productivity without affecting your workflows, business processes and finances.
Zebra's Managed Service delivers worry-free device management to ensure ultimate uptime for your Zebra Mobile Computers and Printers via dedicated experts.
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The Zebra Knowledge Center provides learning expertise that can be tailored to meet the specific needs of your environment.
Zebra has a wide variety of courses to train you and your staff, ranging from scheduled sessions to remote offerings as well as custom tailored to your specific needs.
Build your reputation with Zebra's certification offerings. Zebra offers a variety of options that can help you progress your career path forward.
Build your reputation with Zebra's certification offerings. Zebra offers a variety of options that can help you progress your career path forward.
Everything has its limits. However, we must be careful not to limit our expectations – especially when it comes to technology.
Case in point: we have known for years that the Zebra 3600 Series Ultra Rugged Scanners were tougher than other barcode scanners in their class. They are practically indestructible. But we had no idea how much more they could really handle until recently.
A couple months ago, Zebra was challenged to a rough and tumble duel. Well, not directly. But we were dared to push Zebra 3600 Series scanners to new limits. Operations are becoming more intense in real-world manufacturing and warehousing environments, and scanners are enduring new physical challenges as a result. So, we decided to put the whole family through the most rigorous testing of its life using industry-recognized standards.
Our expectations were high, but perhaps not enough because the Zebra 3600 Series Ultra-Rugged Scanners far exceeded our performance expectations!
Every single one…
Did you fall out of your chair like I did the first time I heard this news?
If you did, I get it. This is really big!
Every single Zebra 3600 Series Ultra-Rugged Scanner has the same ultra-rugged body and design as it did the day it entered the market. That means your scanners actually have a higher IP rating, drop rating, and tumble tolerance than they did when you first bought them. So, you got an even better deal than you thought, and the scanners should last you even longer than you probably expected.
(Still in that chair?)
Now that we’ve substantiated the claims on the spec sheets and inadvertently raised the bar – and value – even higher for ultra-rugged scanners, the conversation should shift to scanner configurations. Though every 3600 Series scanner has the same ultra-rugged design, the functional design does vary from model to model. That’s intentional.
As I mentioned in another recent post, things like keypads, color displays, scan range, and software influence productivity and your return on investment (ROI) just as much as durability. Even the most rugged scanner may limit your operational capacity if workers can only scan one barcode per trigger pull or the data isn’t properly parsed, formatted, and sent to your application systems for reporting or further action. Therefore, it is equally important you choose scanners that can be updated to support new applications. Data must be able to reach the right inventory management systems given how much workers and their devices multi-task these days. So, be sure you rank scanners using a holistic set of criteria when deciding which one is best for your business today and considering which one will still be best five years from now.
If you’re looking at Zebra scanners (which I hope you are, considering you’re still reading this), there’s a really cool Scanner Selector tool that can walk you through all the current options and help you find the right device based on your responses to a few questions. You can also set up time with a Zebra representative to talk through your goals, challenges, budget, current applications, worker expectations, and more.
In fact, you might want to take both routes because there are a lot of ultra-rugged 3600 Series scanners to choose, including the DS3600-KD we just launched a couple months ago:
As you can see, we aren’t kidding when we say we design purpose-built devices. And I know that’s a lot of info to scan through in one sitting, so I’m going to sign off for now. But I do encourage you to check out the Scan Selector tool when you have a few minutes and then call us with any follow up questions.
Matthew Petito is currently a Senior Product Manager at Zebra Technologies where he is responsible for Zebra’s 3600 Series Ultra-Rugged Scanners. Matthew has more than five years of experience within the Industrial Data Capture industry and has launched several products while at Zebra. Matthew holds a BS in Business from The University at Buffalo.
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