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Free Webinar: Tuesday August 10th @ 1:00 p.m. PST

Nick Hession — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:36:04 +0000

MobileFrame Archibus™ Mobile Management Solution

Are you interested in eliminating paper by collecting data on handheld devices?

Register Today and learn how our mobile apps can automate your facilities management team in lightening fast speed. Our mobile apps are already integrated to Archibus and they can be configured to your own business requirements with no custom programming required.

Our Archibus™ Mobile Management Solutions includes a variety of apps:

Work Order Management
Building Operations
Asset Management
Equipment Inventory
Decor Inventory
Property Management
Assessments
and much more…

We’ll also discuss benefits of going mobile such as:

Increase staff productivity
Improve customer service
Reduce data transcription errors
Eliminate redundant data entry
Eliminate down-time in the field
Reduce paper costs
Provide field workers with up-to-date information in real-time

Please join us for this web based education session to learn how
mobile applications and mobility technologies can eliminate
paperwork associated with Work Orders, Building Operations,
Property management, Asset management, and Assessments. You will
hear from Archibus Expert Keith Simpson (11 year Archibus User,
and Expert in Automated Field Data Collection) and Pat Oswalt –
EVP Sales and Marketing for MobileFrame.

Register Now!

Live Webinar with MobileFrame:

Tuesday 8/10/10

1:00 p.m. PST Register Now!

Event Speakers:

Keith Simpson,
Archibus Expert

Patricia Oswalt
MobileFrame EVP of Sales

Who should attend:

Operations Managers
Facility Managers
Archibus Users
Archibus Administrators
Property Managers

Barcode Asset Inspection – Challenge Accepted

Nick Hession — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 22:41:02 +0000

Here at MobileFrame we are pretty good at solving the problem of paper in the field. In this case we had a customer come to us with a very simple yet, annoying problem.

Here’s the current process:

Write the Barcode from the asset on a sheet of paper
Indicate if it passed or failed inspection
If the asset failed, indicate why

They were having problems with

The wrong asset tag information being captured (Transcription Error)
Forgetting to indicate why the inspection failed
Not turning in required paperwork in a timely fashion
Duplication of data back at the office.

Here is the application that I developed in under 1 hour that was able to address these problems with 100% data accuracy, and real time information sharing. If you would like to learn more about MobileFrame please contact us today.

What is RFID? What Does an RFID System Look like?

Nick Hession — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:58:54 +0000

RFID or Radio Frequency Identification is a technology that involves the use of a tag that is applied or incorporated into a product or asset to help identify and track the item using Radio Waves. There are many different types of tags and associated readers available on the market today. It’s now common for organizations to not only look for ways to eliminate field based paper processes but to also think past bar-coding as well.

Here is a good example, you employ a team of 100+ Sales representatives that are in charge of doing inventory counts at customer locations (Think big box retailers) and the inventory needs to be 100% be accurate. The current solution involves the process of manually scanning 100′s if not 1000′s of products while at the customer’s site. No matter how diligent you are this can be a time consuming and error prone task. How do you solve the problem? Hire more sales people? Invest in better, faster scanners? Buy your sales reps memberships to the local gym so they can move faster? A great alternative would be to create an RFID based system.

Here is how such a system could operate. First each item would be equipped with an RFID tag. Instead of the sales rep physically scannning each and every piece of merchandise, he or she would now only need to scan the reader toward the merchandise to conduct an inventory count. At this point the rep could automatically create a suggested order quantity and move on to the important part of the job…Closing Business. The advantage of the RFID system is that each rep can now spend less time manually scanning each product to count inventory without worrying about missing anything.

MobileFrame can help your organization deploy RFID technologies out of the box. Altair Eyewear is an example of a customer of ours who is utilizing such a system to conduct inventory counts of their eye glass frames. To learn more about our advanced RFID Capabilities contact us today.

Insight into eyewear inventories with MobileFrame and RFID technology (Altair Eyewear)

Lonny Oswalt — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:12:52 +0000

Atair Eyewear, a VSP^® Company, selected MobileFrame’s enterprise mobility software to implement RFID-based inventory management across their operations. As a VSP^® Company, Altair has the potential to reach 25,000 independent offices and more than 55 million fully insured lives. VSP’s recent acquisition of Marchon Eyewear extends Altair’s reach even further to include 10,000 optician offices across the country as well as global opportunities. Altair Eyewear supports independent eye care providers with advanced eyewear technologies and distinctive brands including Tommy Bahama^®, Joseph Abboud^®, Sigrid Olsen^®, and Revlon^®.

Altair has already enjoyed great success with MobileFrame’s enterprise mobility software in their distribution center to pick and ship orders, so they were familiar with the configurable nature of the software. The next project on their plate was to use RFID technology to keep an accurate inventory of all eyewear frames on consignment at optician offices around the world. MobileFrame partnered with MSA Systems, Inc. to deliver the hardware, software, training, project management, and support services necessary to install and enable the management of the RFID-enabled inventory management system.

Altair Eyewear uses MobileFrame software in their distribution center to pick frame orders for shipment. Because they are picking orders, Altair needed a device that would allow for hands free scanning – the Motorola RS309 Wearable Ringer/Finger Scanner and the WT4000 Wearable Terminal. Being already familiar with MobileFrame’s ease of use, Altair again turned to MobileFrame for their current project, RFID-enabled inventory management. Previously, doctors who stock these frames had to complete cumbersome Consignment Checklist forms to determine which frames they have in stock, note which are missing and to place orders for new frames. Altair recognized that doctors will sell the frames that offer the path of least resistance; thus by simplifying this process, Altair would gain a significant competitive advantage. Using MobileFrame’s configurable RFID solution, Altair turned a cumbersome checklist into a powerful mobile application.

Although application development tools are commonplace, those tools require costly, time-consuming development to create business applications. Moreover, such business solutions tend to be inflexible, requiring expensive custom programming whenever business processes change. As business processes evolve, MobileFrame’s software provides unparalleled flexibility to create new mobile applications of any degree of complexity and incorporating any mix of business processes. The software then seamlessly deploys the new applications to the field wirelessly “on-the-fly.” With its flexibility and ease of use, MobileFrame’s enterprise mobility software will allow Altair to quickly deploy their inventory management project and make changes as needed, without time-consuming and expensive development efforts.

“MobileFrame’s configurable RFID software is very flexible and quick to fully deploy across any manufacturing operation. Our patented 100% Code Free platform architecture allows cost-effective RFID mobile solutions to be quickly deployed without having to write any code. Implementing RFID technology has never been so easy.” — Lonny Oswalt, CEO of MobileFrame

About Altair Eyewear
Altair Eyewear supports independent eye care providers with advanced eyewear technologies and distinctive brands including Tommy Bahama®, Joseph Abboud®, Sigrid Olsen®, and Revlon®. With nearly 10,000 accounts, Altair is one of the fastest growing frame companies in existence today. As a VSP® Company, Altair has the potential to reach 25,000 independent offices and more than 55 million fully insured lives. VSP’s recent acquisition of Marchon Eyewear extends Altair’s reach even further to include 10,000 optician offices across the country as well as global opportunities. For further information visit our website at www.vsp.com.

About MobileFrame

MobileFrame is the leading provider of Configurable Mobile Applications^TM enterprise software that requires no coding or programming to create, deploy and remotely manage sophisticated mobile applications. With secure SOX compliant instant messaging, remote device control, configuration and management, intelligent networking, remote software updates, prioritized synchronization, automatic device driver recognition and loading all built-in, MobileFrame’s platform significantly streamlines mobile application development, deployment, and administration. MobileFrame eliminates custom programming through an intuitive, user friendly point-and-click graphical user interface, enabling novice computer users to quickly create and deploy custom mobile applications tailored to their business.

MobileFrame’s award-winning Configurable Mobile Applications^TM software platform is an entirely self-contained mobility solution that provides full functionality out-of-the-box, with no custom programming, no third party mobile gateways, synchronization engines or SDK’s required. MobileFrame’s software allows users to capture photographs, voice notes, documents, templates, logos, sketches, digital signatures, bar code scans, magnetic strip read outs, RFID tags, advanced algorithmic functions, and attach them directly into their mobile applications. Applications are stored in a library so administrators can quickly make changes whenever operational requirements change, enabling on-the-spot deployment of a wide variety of mobile applications.

For more information, customers may contact MobileFrame directly at 1-408-885-1200 or visit our website at http://www.mobileframe.com.

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Contact:
Thomas J. Laughlin
MobileFrame LLC
(408) 885-1200
tlaughlin@mobileframe.com