Asset Management - Motorola MC909X-S - Win Mobile 6.1 Professional 624 MHz Brochure

Asset Management

The challenge:
Cost-effective maintenance of accurate asset records.
Federal, state, county, and municipal government agencies are
responsible for wide variety of assets – from office supplies, fleets
of vehicles, and wastewater equipment to munitions, laboratory
specimens, and nuclear fuel. Keeping track of these assets is
required to ensure timely maintenance and to meet accounting
and compliance requirements. But tracking so many varied assets
brings a lot of challenges: their geographic dispersal, inaccessibility,
difficulty with location, and vastly different description
requirements, not to mention the sheer time and expense of
getting workers to the assets and completing the required
paperwork. The opportunity for data errors is high, as is the cost
of errors: for example, if routine maintenance is not performed
on critical equipment in a water treatment plant, tap water quality
could be affected, putting public health at risk.
The solution:
Automating data capture with mobile computing.
Since workers are often mobile while auditing assets and
reviewing inventory, Motorola's mobile computers are a natural
choice.
Instead of handwriting data on a paper form, workers scan
the bar code or RFID (radio frequency identification) tag on an
item — and the form is auto-populated with the right data set.
Information can be quickly and easily captured — complete with
a photograph to document asset condition.
Instead of transferring the information from the form into a
computer, the press of a button can transmit the data on the
electronic form directly into back end systems. The automated
capture of asset data dramatically reduces errors.
In the warehouse, a mobile computer can be used to scan
incoming shipments and take periodic inventories.
Fleets of vehicles can be managed with RFID tags or barcodes,
eliminating paperwork; or use GPS to provide real-time visibility
and improve utilization.
MC909X-G
Rugged Handheld Mobile Computer
Drop-resistant (6 ft./1.8 m to concrete)
Dust-tight and protected against water (IP64)
1D/2D/DPM bar code scanning
Comfortable "gun grip" handle for scan-
intensive applications
WiFi
Bluetooth 1.2
RFID option
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