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Warrnambool Cheese and Butter Factory Creams the Competition with MobileFrame’s Product Inspection App

Danielle Mora — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 21:53:40 +0000

Warnambool Cheese and Butter Factory (WCB), producers of high-quality dairy products for over 120 years, selected MobileFrame’s Configurable Mobile Application Solution to eliminate all paper based processes across the company. WCB is one of the oldest dairy processors in Australia today and is a major producer of high quality dairy commodities such as cheese, milk powders, whey protein, butter and cream, for both domestic and export markets.

Prior to purchasing the MobileFrame solution, their staff was using clipboard and paper forms to do quality control inspections on both the production floor and in the warehouse. After the data was collected, the completed forms were turned over to administrative staff to manually enter the data into their business system. This manual system was extremely labor intensive, error-prone and inefficient, so they were looking for an easy to use, intuitive software solution to solve these problems. WCB quickly realized that MobileFrame’s platform can be used to deploy any app with any requirement across any department. Their apps can be tailored to their business and integrated to their JD Edwards backend system. Some of the benefits of MobileFrame’s solution include:

Increase efficiencies by eliminating error-prone manual data-entry tasks
Increasing efficiency of product inspection operations
Ability to write their own apps without writing a single line of code

Businesses are pressed to do more with the same resources. Capital expenditures are more closely reviewed than ever before. In this environment it’s paramount that every dollar invested in new technology drives a return that is measured in days, and not months or years. MobileFrame’s unique, patented technology addresses that need head–on. With the ability to adapt quickly and deploy literally overnight, no other mobile platform provides this type of acceleration of deployment of any custom application, integrated into any backend system. MobileFrame accepts challenges to deploy custom applications live and synchronize those custom built apps over the air in real-time every day. With this flexibility and ease of use, MobileFrame’s enterprise mobility software has allowed Warrnambool Cheese and Butter to deploy their product inspection application and make changes as needed, without time-consuming and expensive development efforts.

“The key deciding factor for Warrnambool Cheese and Butter Factory’s purchase decision was the fact that MobileFrame could be deployed across all departments for any application requirement. This, combined with our ease of use made it an easy decision”. — Lonny Oswalt, MobileFrame CEO

About Warrnambool Cheese and Butter

Warrnambool Cheese and Butter (WCB) has been producing high quality dairy products for over 120 years, making them the oldest dairy processor in Australia today. They are an Australian-owned company, listed on the Australian Stock Exchange since 2004. Warrnambool Cheese and Butter is one of the largest employers in South West Victoria, with about 300 (full-time equivalent) employees based at their Allansford site. For more information visit: http://www.wcbf.com.au

About MobileFrame

MobileFrame is the leading provider of Configurable Mobile Applications™ 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 mobility 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:
Danielle M. Mora
MobileFrame LLC
(408) 885-1200
dmora@mobileframe.com

Evergreen Tank Solutions, Inc. Selects MobileFrame’s Asset Tracking Application

Danielle Mora — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 22:32:57 +0000

Evergreen Tank Solutions, Inc. has chosen MobileFrame’s asset tracking application to collect data related to the disposal of hazardous and non-hazardous waste in order to aid with federal and state compliance. Evergreen Tank Solutions, Inc. provides their customers with effective, efficient, ecological solutions to all their liquid and solid temporary storage needs and offers one of the broadest ranges of containment equipment in the industry. With MobileFrame’s solution, they will essentially be able to track movement of large waste containers at large industrial facilities to identify the GPS coordinates, condition, date and time of the move, and much more. With MobileFrame’s 100% code-free platform, Evergreen Tank Solutions, Inc. is now able to make changes to each one of their customer’s requirements, which they were not able to do with their previous solution.

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 users with unparalleled flexibility to create new mobile applications of any degree of complexity, incorporating any mix of business processes, and to make changes to those applications on-the-fly. With its flexibility and ease of use, MobileFrame’s enterprise mobility software will allow Evergreen Tank Solutions, Inc. to quickly deploy their asset tracking applications and make changes as needed to suit their individual customers’ needs, without time-consuming and expensive development efforts.

“MobileFrame is pleased to win this account with Evergreen Tank Solutions, Inc. Unlike their previous solution, our award winning software allows Evergreen to make changes based on each customer’s requirements without any coding. MobileFrame’s software provides substantial cost savings through standardization and elimination of time-consuming hard coded mobile application projects based on obsolete software development tools,” said Lonny Oswalt, MobileFrame’s CEO.

About Evergreen Tank Solutions, Inc.

Evergreen Tank Solutions, Inc. provides their customers with effective, efficient, ecological solutions to all their liquid & solid temporary storage needs, offering one of the broadest ranges of containment equipment in the industry. They take great pride in their ability to provide their customers with the highest quality container fleet and outstanding customer service. For more information visit: http://www.evergreentank.com/

About MobileFrame

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:
Danielle M. Mora
MobileFrame LLC
(408) 885-1200
dmora@mobileframe.com

Sturgeon Services International is Pumping Out Work Orders with MobileFrame

Danielle Mora — Tue, 31 May 2011 20:21:26 +0000

Sturgeon Services International (SSI), formerly known as Sturgeon & Sons, has purchased MobileFrame’s work order automation with asset tracking application. SSI is an oil field services company in California, and was looking to automate their work order and asset tracking processes. Prior to implementing MobileFrame’s platform, Sturgeon Services International was completing their work orders in individual Excel spreadsheets per job. The tech would then email the completed spreadsheet to the office. SSI employs 10 clerks who are responsible for verifying the accuracy of the data for payroll and billing purposes. The same clerks had to then manually enter all of that data into Microsoft Dynamics and other backend office systems. SSI found this process to be very time consuming, costly and prone to human error. With MobileFrame’s solution, not only do those clerks get to avoid all that manual data entry, but the company no longer needs to hire new IT staff to develop and manage applications. During the evaluation phase the SSI team particularly liked the simplicity of integrating our system with their back office systems.

The SSI team ran ROI calculations as they were building the business case before purchasing the MobileFrame software. They realized that the return is massive and will run over the lifetime of the project. Some of the contributing factors to such a high ROI include:

Streamlining their work orders
Asset tracking operations
Eliminating manual data entry
Workforce is more efficient and productive

Businesses are pressed to do more with the same resources. Capital expenditures are more closely reviewed than ever before. In this environment it’s paramount that every dollar invested in new technology drives a return that is measured in days, and not months or years. MobileFrame’s unique, patented technology addresses that need head–on. With the ability to adapt quickly and deploy literally overnight, no other mobile platform provides this type of acceleration of deployment of any custom application, integrated into any backend system. MobileFrame accepts challenges to deploy custom applications live and synchronize those custom built apps over the air in real-time every day. With this flexibility and ease of use, MobileFrame’s enterprise mobility software has allowed Sturgeon Services International to deploy their work order and asset tracking application and make changes as needed, without time-consuming and expensive development efforts.

“Sturgeon and Sons International understands that there is more to mobile applications than mere development. After seeing a demonstration of MobileFrame’s product, they knew that MobileFrame would be the best fit. They will now be able to make their development, deployment and overall project management a significantly easier job.”

— Lonny Oswalt, MobileFrame CEO

About Sturgeon Services International

Formerly known as Sturgeon & Son, Sturgeon Services International (SSI) was founded in 1927 by Henry Sturgeon. What started as primarily an earthwork company has expanded significantly over the years. Today, they provide the full spectrum of contracting services for oilfields throughout California. In fact, they pride themselves on being a “One Stop Shop” for any oilfield need. From earthwork to well abandonment, centrifuge to rathole drilling, we do it all. For more information visit: http://www.ssiworldclass.com/

About MobileFrame

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:
Danielle M. Mora
MobileFrame LLC
(408) 885-1200
dmora@mobileframe.com

Free Webinar: Tuesday November 11th @ 1:00 p.m. PST

Patricia Oswalt — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:50:01 +0000

MobileFrame Facilities 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 solution can be integrated to your backend systems and configured to your own business requirements with no custom programming required.

Our Facilities 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

Register Now!

Live Webinar with MobileFrame: Thursday, November 11, 2010 from, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM PST Register Now!

Event Speakers:

Patricia Oswalt - MobileFrame EVP of Sales
Debbrah Dizon – MobileFrame

Who should attend:

Operations Managers
Facility Managers
Archibus Users
Archibus Administrators
Property Managers

National Archives Deploys MobileFrame’s Asset Tracking Application

Danielle Mora — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 16:45:43 +0000

National Archives (NARA) has selected MobileFrame’s asset tracking application to identify items and their location through barcode scanning. In addition to keeping the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, National Archives also hold in trust for the public the records of citizens including military records, immigration records and much more. Prior to implementing MobileFrame’s platform, National Archives was keeping track of approximately 30 million assets on paper, which would result in several issues, including problems locating those assets when needed, as well as the risk of possibly losing any of those records. National Archives found this process to be inefficient and extremely time consuming. MobileFrame’s 100% Code-Free Platform allows the implementation of these records into National Archives Oracle and Siebel backend systems.

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 users with unparalleled flexibility to create new mobile applications of any degree of complexity, incorporating any mix of business processes, and to make changes to those applications quickly as needed. With its flexibility and ease of use, MobileFrame’s enterprise mobility software will allow National Archives to quickly deploy their asset tracking applications and make changes as needed, without time-consuming and expensive development efforts.

“MobileFrame is honored to be the platform that is going to assist in cataloguing our countries most historical treasures and records. We are now a vital piece of the puzzle in the preservation and tracking of these records with National Archives. We won this account because of our unique flexibility the other solutions could not provide.” — Lonny Oswalt, CEO of MobileFrame

About National Archives (NARA)

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is the nation’s record keeper. Of all documents and materials created in the course of business conducted by the United States Federal government, only 1%-3% are so important for legal or historical reasons that they are kept by us forever.

Those valuable records are preserved and are available to you, whether you want to see if they contain clues about your family’s history, need to prove a veteran’s military service, or are researching an historical topic that interests you. For more information visit: http://www.archives.gov/

About MobileFrame

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:
Danielle M. Mora
MobileFrame LLC
(408) 885-1200
dmora@mobileframe.com

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