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2. Jeffrey Manufacturing Company - Wikipedia

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   In the 1880s, the new company developed an early conveyor belt using its chain drive. In 1888, the Portage Strawboard Company had over 2 miles of Jeffrey Conveyor installed. [4] The company was an early adopter of electric motors, and one of the first American manufacturers to build a mining locomotive powered from an overhead wire, in 1888. [7]

3. Symbol Technologies - Wikipedia

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   At that time, the company focused on handheld laser-based scanning of bar codes. Under Swartz, the company marketed handheld laser barcode scanning devices. The company focused heavily on the retail industry and began to get involved in inventory management. These activities typically required people to scan items where they are stored and as ...

4. Cross belt sorter - Wikipedia

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   The main components of a cross-belt sorter include: Induction Area: This is where items are introduced onto the sorter. Items are predominantly fed automatically from conveyor belts, or other feeding mechanisms, although as an exception, some are fed manually by an operator at low speeds. Track: The track guides the trains along a predefined ...

5. David Jarrett Collins - Wikipedia

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   David Jarrett Collins (February 11, 1936 – March 12, 2022) was an inventor and businessman whose career was focused on bringing barcode technology into the mainstream. . While at Sylvania in 1960, he led a team that developed the first functional barcode system for tracking railroad cars, and subsequently worked on developing laser barcode syste

6. Dematic - Wikipedia

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   On September 15, 2010, Dematic Group successfully completed the acquisition of HK Systems, a North American automated material handling and software provider. [13] The expanded manufacturing footprint allows Dematic to manufacture within the USA storage and retrieval machines and automated guided vehicles in addition to conveyor, sortation and order fulfillment technology.

7. Barcode reader - Wikipedia

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   A barcode reader or barcode scanner is an optical scanner that can read printed barcodes and send the data they contain to computer. [1] Like a flatbed scanner , it consists of a light source, a lens, and a light sensor for translating optical impulses into electrical signals.