Thanks for the information. We are located in a fairly small building
with one access point that can service the whole building. We have two
warehouse employees and I was thinking of using the tablet to remote
desktop their pc's. I think the performance would be fine but I would
have to come up with a different solution if we implement barcoding.
Butch
________________________________
From: Shirley Graver [mailto:shirleyg@...]
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 8:55 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Inventory transactions on the shop floor
I have tested a setup to do this, and it worked with following caveats:
1:
Make sure you have enough wireless access points not to loose your
connection when walking from point to point. This includes areas you
might
walk through but not perform any transactions. The reason is once the
connection is lost the tablet doesn't want to reconnect till its
rebooted
("frustrating"). So if a guy walks from warehouse A to warehouse B and
looses his connection he has to reboot and Vantage Errors. You want to
be
sure you have continuous connection. 2. The best connection speed you
can
arrange. In my test, at 50 feet from my access point performance
dropped
80%. Then shortly after that I would loose the connection. 3.
Batteries,
multiple sets for each tablet, one on charge, one charged, one in the
machine. Especially, if you are thinking of using a keyboard wedge
laser.
The laser will shorten battery life by 60%, and buy BIG batteries, your
8
hour battery goes to 2 hours with a laser on it. My management didn't
like
the limitations, so it didn't go further than the tests.
Shirley Graver
Rubber Associates
_____
From: Butch Menge [mailto:bmenge@...]
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 11:32 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Inventory transactions on the shop floor
We were thinking of trying a tablet PC for the portability using a
wireless connection . Has anyone tried this?
Butch
________________________________
From: Jasper Recto [mailto:jrecto@...]
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 7:02 AM
To: Vantage Groups (E-mail)
Subject: [Vantage] Inventory transactions on the shop floor
When our inventory manager and material handler moves inventory from bin
to bin or issues materials to jobs, they have to move the material and
then go back to their office to do the transactions in Vantage. I have
given them a laptop that has a terminal service connection where they
can open up vantage and make transactions there but a laptop is still
very bulky and not something they would carry around all the time.
Is anybody using any devices that is small enough to carry around ALL
the time and still be able to make the neccessary transactions in
Vantage? Is anybody using any Windows CE devices that with a custom
program that can accomplish this task?
Thanks,
Jasper
Jasper
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with one access point that can service the whole building. We have two
warehouse employees and I was thinking of using the tablet to remote
desktop their pc's. I think the performance would be fine but I would
have to come up with a different solution if we implement barcoding.
Butch
________________________________
From: Shirley Graver [mailto:shirleyg@...]
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 8:55 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Inventory transactions on the shop floor
I have tested a setup to do this, and it worked with following caveats:
1:
Make sure you have enough wireless access points not to loose your
connection when walking from point to point. This includes areas you
might
walk through but not perform any transactions. The reason is once the
connection is lost the tablet doesn't want to reconnect till its
rebooted
("frustrating"). So if a guy walks from warehouse A to warehouse B and
looses his connection he has to reboot and Vantage Errors. You want to
be
sure you have continuous connection. 2. The best connection speed you
can
arrange. In my test, at 50 feet from my access point performance
dropped
80%. Then shortly after that I would loose the connection. 3.
Batteries,
multiple sets for each tablet, one on charge, one charged, one in the
machine. Especially, if you are thinking of using a keyboard wedge
laser.
The laser will shorten battery life by 60%, and buy BIG batteries, your
8
hour battery goes to 2 hours with a laser on it. My management didn't
like
the limitations, so it didn't go further than the tests.
Shirley Graver
Rubber Associates
_____
From: Butch Menge [mailto:bmenge@...]
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 11:32 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Inventory transactions on the shop floor
We were thinking of trying a tablet PC for the portability using a
wireless connection . Has anyone tried this?
Butch
________________________________
From: Jasper Recto [mailto:jrecto@...]
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 7:02 AM
To: Vantage Groups (E-mail)
Subject: [Vantage] Inventory transactions on the shop floor
When our inventory manager and material handler moves inventory from bin
to bin or issues materials to jobs, they have to move the material and
then go back to their office to do the transactions in Vantage. I have
given them a laptop that has a terminal service connection where they
can open up vantage and make transactions there but a laptop is still
very bulky and not something they would carry around all the time.
Is anybody using any devices that is small enough to carry around ALL
the time and still be able to make the neccessary transactions in
Vantage? Is anybody using any Windows CE devices that with a custom
program that can accomplish this task?
Thanks,
Jasper
Jasper
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