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QR Codes are Making the Comeback of the Century

Theatro

QR codes as we know them today were initially released in 1994 by Denso Wave Inc. QR Codes are images that smartphone cameras can scan to access a URL, unique product, or service information, not unlike a bar code. For many years, QR Codes mostly faded their way into obscurity. Connect with Theatro!

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4 Ways to Improve Productivity on the Shop Floor

Global Shop

With GS Mobile it takes six to eight hours at most, reducing labor costs and providing accounting and senior management with information to make better decisions. At Cardinal Systems , a manufacturer of custom swimming pool products, manual inventory counts used to take two and a half days.

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How Retailers can Combat Inventory Shrinkage with Drone-Powered Warehouse Monitoring

Retail TouchPoints

If Stadium Goods loses the inventory, it’s accountable and has to pay the marketplaces for that product. The drones photograph pallets (day or night); machine learning (ML) algorithms read bar codes and text and show warehouse management system (WMS) discrepancies in real time.

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How To Create a Barcode

Retail Minded

The first is to create them themselves using online tools or accounting software. The check digit is a digit for checking whether the encoded barcode data are correct. How to Create a Barcode There are two main routes a company can take when creating barcodes.