Case Study - GE Hungary

The company

GE is a diversified technology, media and financial services company dedicated to creating products that make life better. From aircraft engines and power generation to financial services, medical imaging, television programming and plastics, GE operates in more than 100 countries and employs more than 300 000 people worldwide.

Problem to be solved

All manufactured bulbs are placed in a so called testing frame, which helps to measure the bulbs' life expectancy. Each bulb has an identifier (code) and placed in definite position on the frame. The documention of testing results - time and position of burnt bulbs, the alteration of bus voltage etc. - and the data recording process to the central database was very slow and unaccurate previously as it was made manually on papers.

Solution

At the request of our client - more reliable and faster production follow-up - we developed a product qualification application based on barcode technology. We gave barcode to all bulbs and each position of the testing frame , so the identification of bulbs and the matching of them to the positions on the frame became completely fail-safe. It also helped to reduce the time and number of errors in data recording. The results of test are available on-line, so there is no need for post-documentation.
Data collection and recording is made by Symbol SPT 1550 mobile computers.

Results

Punctual and fast data management, all information are available on-line.

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