It's All in the Attitude!
The most significant issue recently discovered in the field when implementing a warehouse voice picking system as an augmentation to an existing system, turned out not to be a technical issue. The attitude of the users was a significant contributor as to whether or not productivity gains were strong.
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Years of Feedback From the Field Reveals…
For the last several years, Voice Picking activities in the warehouse have been moving away from full process and technology replacement, toward a strategic augmentation of a current workflow process to leverage inventories of existing mobile devices and existing terminal emulation interfaces. Reports from the field in sticking to existing infrastructure in lieu of undergoing a technology replacement has shown mixed results. Although the marketing dogma of relying on standardized mobiles has been highly touted, have enterprises really seen the expected ROI? If so, what has the feedback called out as the key to a successful implementation?
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Cisco and Datria UC Voice Picking
Network-Based Order Fulfillment in the Warehouse
The UC Voice Picking Solution from Cisco and Datria is the industry’s first enterpriseclass warehouse solution, delivering voice-enabled supply chain solutions via VoIP and the network, and enabling manufacturing operations increase order accuracy while improving worker productivity. This innovative solution is the first to be completely open standards-based, enabling rapid ROI and establishing a voice resource that can be used throughout the enterprise.
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Speech-based warehousing is being more widely used than ever before. Available since the early 1990s for industrial use, voice technology has advanced rapidly. Early implementations were long arduous processes of trial and error style fine-tuning of underpowered, oversized hardware and mediocre recognition and synthesis engines.
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Although many consultants, trade magazines and marketing literature use the terms 'voice recognition' and 'speech recognition' interchangeably there is a difference. Voice recognition is a method of capturing the voice to identify the person that is speaking. This would be similar to identifying someone by his or her fingerprint. Speech recognition, by contrast, is the method of capturing the voice to identify and to return what someone has spoken.
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