Must-Haves For Ruggedized Warehouse Scanners: Making Evaluation Easy As 1-2-3

By Jose Vega, Marketing Manager, Datalogic

When looking at ruggedized warehouse scanners, there are many angles to take when deciding must-haves for these devices. But before creating a checklist of features or technology, it is more important to have criteria that will drive your choices and evaluation. It’s about more than just the fastest processors, latest system architecture, and options for operating systems. It is about what will drive success in the warehouse and the enterprise. Keeping these criteria simple can be the key to evaluating technology and assuring your choice is grounded in the necessities for your enterprise. Here are three simple benchmarks to use when considering and evaluating ruggedized warehouse scanners.

1. The User Comes First. Nothing will torpedo an implementation faster than a device that makes the users unhappy. The source of this unhappiness can come from many directions — an interface that is not intuitive, a design with poor weight distribution, a battery life that does not consistently last beyond the shift, options that are difficult to find and set, and many others. The key here is to understand that day in and day out, the people who will be using these devices will make or literally break these devices — regardless of the drop specification. All good warehouse evaluations should include a multi-unit, multi-user evaluation period or test.

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