IHI Leverages Solution from Vocollect in Japan

Logistics Insight Asia - Technology & Market Trends, 8/1/2010

Vocollect has validated the performance of Vocollect Voice over the past year at the parts center of IHI Construction Machinery (IHI), a Japanese manufacturing company. The company has achieved a 70 percent reduction in work errors from its one-year implementation of Vocollect Voice, helping the company attain a 99.993 percent operating accuracy.

IHI, which manufactures and markets large-scale construction equipment including mini-excavators, hydraulic shovels and cranes, and associated environment-related equipment, is engaged in parts control of approximately 60,000 items of varying sizes at its parts center in Yokohama. The deployment began in June 2008, applying Vocollect Voice over a period of months for cycle-counting, receiving inspection, storage, picking and shipping inspection.

The key goals for the deployment were work standardization, the simplification of work processes, and overall productivity enhancement by improving operational efficiencies. The company realized a 46 percent average improvement in productivity, reducing the number of workers per shift by 50 percent.

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