The installation of an automated warehouse supposes a great reduction in labor costs and in an important acceleration in the delivery of orders in addition to a considerable improvement in the accuracy of these, thus reducing, almost to zero, the returns and improving in a important way the customer service quality.
When everything works as designed, the accounts for the store go very well, but, as in any system, there may be failures, the automation can find errors that in many cases is able to handle, but in others, requires intervention of a qualified staff with sufficient criteria to make an adequate decision, which almost completely stops the line and generates stress for the business, in this writing we will refer to the reader of bar codes or RFID labels, as the case may be.
Impact in productivity when a NO_READ occurs in an automated warehouse
At the time of a non-reading (NO READ). The logistics systems take one of three actions:
- They stop the conveyor line where the non-reading occurred.
- Through the tracking system, they divert the object to a rejection zone.
- They recirculate the object to be read again.
In all cases, and especially when it comes to the packing phase or delivery to the dispatch dock, this situation may delay the departure of a load or may cause an order to be incomplete with the administrative inconvenience that implies. One of the possible solutions for this problem is to take a photo at the time of reading in order to more easily identify the objects that failed at the time of reading. You have to determine the cause of the reading failures to minimize them as much as possible, there may be installation problems, label problems or problems in the dynamic parameters of the reader, to be able to determine those causes it is good to have a history of the events that happened at the time of the failure, to achieve it we have an application that takes a series of photos before and after the moment of the reading shot that allows us to know what was the position of the beam on the label at various times and with that information, we will know which of the possible causes we must solve. Please download the application presented here to try, it will help you solve the problems of not reading.
