How Wireless Scanners Can Amp Up Quality of Goods?

Wireless scanners have been in use and in vogue for some time now and business leaders are waking up to the benefits of using barcode scanners and wireless barcode scanners in the face of compelling evidence. Dubai, the economic powerhouse of the Middle East is also swimming in tune with the tides of change and is up for a major revamp of the way in which they execute the functions of branding, packaging and labelling. Given that each city and state has its individual character, it makes enormous good sense to assert that Dubai is predominantly led by the sectors of retail, consumer goods, consumer durables and transport. In the context of these observations it makes sense to observe that Dubai needs a quality revolution straight out of the book of Japan and emulate the steps for attaining the levels of total quality management. This requires an agenda that should involve workers from the operations level of management of business enterprises in the above mentioned sectors. 

The use of barcode scanners in the context of the agenda for total quality management in the sectors of manufacturing, consumer goods and consumer durables is based on the understanding of how grass roots level workers can get involved in improving the quality of the goods that the enterprises produce. First, barcode scanners are easy to use and needless to say are great and effective ways to archive minute details of production like date of manufacturing, batch, and date of expiry, lot number and much more. These minute details carry extra significance in units that consist of assembly line or inter-departmental transfers of inventories of raw materials and work in progress. The onus to archive information for inventory produced is on the supplier and thus is indirectly interwoven with the branding practices of the supplier. Second, of all the steps that can be taken to improve quality the use of wireless scanners is primitive in nature and brings accountability and responsibility on the shoulders of the workers and aids quality. Making use of wireless scanners, it is possible to reward workers for minimum number of defects and then move towards the goal of zero defects. Third, the use of barcode scanners is the most primitive way for branding. Given that wireless scanners are easy to operate, they can be used for imprinting digital logos of brands with the least cost, effort and time engagement. 

Dubai is no stranger to branding but firms need to realize that quality has no substitute. Brand building is expensive whereas quality improvements lead to reduction in costs and improve efficiency-both economic and technical. Greater the participation of workers of the grassroots level in the quality revolution, higher shall be the benefits. It starts with the adoption of wireless scanners.