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Lean thinking flies on wireless technologies 04/10/2006
 
Airbus UK’s materials management and logistics department in Filton was highly commended for its use of mobile technology to strip out vast amounts of waste and time. In fact, the company achieved full return on its IT investment within weeks of implementing the systems – and is now set to take a considerably wider wireless initiative even further. David Herbert, business improvement change agent, says this implementation was part of Airbus UK’s Route ’06 programme, looking for productivity gains and cost savings. He started with mobile technology in stock and WIP (work in progress) auditing, which used to be performed manually several times a year, taking 20 people and 100 man-hours at overtime rates. Peak Technologies supplied Symbol mobile handhelds, and the result of scanning and uploading data to the site SAP system was a transformation.

 
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