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

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
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Innovation not Replication: Give the Enterprise Freedom of Choice

Over the past several months we have been working very closely with a large Consumer Packaged Goods Distribution company that has been in the process of evaluating different mobile software vendors to replace their legacy route accounting system.

They are interested in not only replacing their existing system but they also wanted to find a single platform to provide the ability to build, deploy, manage, and support all of their mobile application needs.
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Evergreen Tank Solutions, Inc. Selects MobileFrame’s Asset Tracking Application

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.

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Sturgeon Services International is Pumping Out Work Orders with MobileFrame

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. Continue reading

National Archives Deploys MobileFrame’s Asset Tracking Application

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.

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Why don’t businesses value mobile computing like they value office based computing?

I was chatting with one of our valued partners today, and we got into a very interesting discussion regarding the adoption of field based mobile computing. It appears as if we have both stumbled upon the same problem. The apparent disconnect between automating office based paper processes, and field based paper processes. This discussion really made me think.

“Why don’t businesses value mobile computing like they value office based computing?”

For years companies have been using computers in the office to aid in the functions necessary to run the daily operations of the business.

For Example:

  • Bookkeeping / Accounting
  • AR / AP
  • Payroll
  • E-mail
  • Customer Activity Tracking
  • Sales Performance Tracking
  • Resource Scheduling
  • Creating, assigning, and closing Work Orders
  • Ordering Parts
  • Updating Spreadsheets
  • Etc.

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Barcode Asset Inspection – Challenge Accepted


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

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Mobile Work Order / Dispatch System – Created in 1.5 hours by Me!

Here’s round 2 on creating a mobile application and this time instead of a real time meal order taking application, I’ve created a simple Work Order System that includes a Dispatch app and a handheld app. They were both built using MobileFrame and completed in under 2 hours.

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MobileFrame CEO, Lonny Oswalt, Appointed to Motorola Partner Advisory Council

As a valued Motorola partner, MobileFrame was invited to participate in the Motorola North America Enterprise Partner Advisory Council.  The Partner Advisory Council (PAC) is an invitation-only council created to gather top executives within Motorola’s partner community to engage in dialogue on key issues and ideas for the PartnerSelect Program, product development as well as to discuss and receive feedback in crafting Motorola’s direction and priorities within the channel community.  The PAC is a highly valued group within Motorola and this particular council has played a major role in the direction of first Symbol Technologies channel program and now Motorola’s Enterprise Mobility business channel program since 2003.

Breaking Down The Hype of Code Free Mobile Computing

The mobile community is littered with companies who claim to be “configurable” with “no coding”, but most are just spinning a web of marketing hype with no real substance.  MobileFrame not only holds the patent on 100% Code Free Mobile Computing, but we practice what we preach day in and day out.  Our mantra, Custom Mobile Applications with No Custom Programming means exactly that. Continue reading