Laufen reaps 12-month payback on wireless data collection system

Laufen ships about 280 truckloads, or 5,600 pallets, of tile monthly. Facing such logistics, management realized the company needed a system capable of supporting its product volume as well as its 193,000-square-foot facility.

For a solution, Laufen turned to Intermec handheld and vehicle-mounted computers to replace the handwritten log sheets previously used in the warehouse. All of the units were linked together via an Intermec 2.4 GHz wireless backbone.