Lots of vendors will tell you their material handling equipment is ready to "plug and play." But the reality is, there will still be a need for systems integrators for a long time to come.

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Accu-Sort manufactures out of two facilities in Telford and Hatfield, PA. It redesigns its production cells as often as six months due to its lean principles. The facilities carry no finished goods, as all operations work on demand-flow. It has global sales and service locations, and is now focusing on investing in Europe and Asia.

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Given pending electronic pedigree rules and distributor and retailer requests, pharmaceutical companies are showing interest in automatic identification systems like 2-D bar coding and radio-frequency identification.

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Accu-Sort Systems has undergone a complete makeover since being acquired. President Gregg Branning tells Keith Regan how the new corporate DNA has changed the company for the better.

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Pittsburgh International Airport installed 8 baggage identification and sorting arrays using AXIOM™ linear laser scanners and AXIOM-X™ omnidirectional laser scanners. The Accu-Sort laser-scanning installation has improved read rate to more than 90 percent from 62 to 65 percent, drastically reducing manual handling of baggage, reducing labor costs and improving passenger satisfaction.

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The Allegheny County Airport Authority voted Friday to spend up to $303,215 to buy new scanners for the baggage system used by US Airways, which accounts for more than half of all passengers at the airport.

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Multiple laser, omnidirectional Axiom X™ reads high density bar codes at rates to 1,120 scans/sec. Bar code reader provides serial, Ethernet TCP/IP, UDP, and EtherNet/IP(TM) connectivity and can be networked using client/controller configuration.

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Accu-Sort Systems now offers FAST Monitor, software that monitors and diagnoses potential issues that affect scanners in sortation systems so that maintenance managers can react quickly and minimize downtime.

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The new AXIOM-X bar-code scanner from Accu-Sort Systems is built on a modular system that provides higher read rates, greater flexibility and lower total cost of ownership than previous systems. And it does so in a compact, maintenance-free design.

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Accu-Sort Systems, Inc. introduces the AccuVision MiniCam CMOS camera and decoder that offers the accuracy of a camera at the price of a laser scanner. With a read rate of 99 percent (compared to 90-96 percent for lasers), quick set-up and low maintenance, MiniCam provides the lowest total cost of ownership of any bar code scanning option.

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