Is a voice directed System right for you? Ideal Industrial Speech Applications have one or more of the following factors:
- Hands-Busy Tasks–the user’s hands are occupied while data entry still needs to be performed.
- Eyes-Busy Tasks–the user needs to be looking at a part or object while entering data, such as inspection of parts.
- Data Entry is a significant portion of a user’s job.
- Real-Time Data is required for input to a Warehouse Management System, an SPC Charting program, to print a “load slip” or to confirm a materials receipt.
- Two-Person “Tally” applications–a second “tally” person is required to record data the inspector collects.
- Non-Bar Coded Data needs to be entered, possibly for conversion to a bar code label.
- Attribute or Qualitative Data is involved, such as “broken”, “scrap core,” “missing component,” “glaze defect”, etc. This data can be spoken-in by name, vs. the inspector needing to remember codes.
- More specific data is needed, but which cannot be entered with the current data collection methods.
- The Data to be entered is relatively standard and repeatable: part numbers, serial numbers, quantities, attribute defects, locations, etc.
Listed below are various industrial voice/speech applications for which we have developed systems.
- Automotive Paint/Final Inspection of painted chassis or fully assembled vehicles
- Warehouse Order Picking, especially in cold or inclement environments
- Ceramics Inspection Systems for final inspection and disposition of ceramics after firing
- Automotive Cores Receiving for the Automotive Parts Remanufacturing industry
- Receiving and Receiving Inspection
- Electronic PC Board inspection at an inspection “bench” and especially for use with a microscope
- Voice to Bar Code Label situations for conversion to a machine readable format
- Voice-Validated Serial Number Entry, where technology and good process provide accuracy
- Package Identification for material Handling, such as postal sorting