Ruggedized tablets: a necessity for logistics and transport
The experience shows that logistics is a sector where everything must happen quickly. Shocks and vibrations are just as frequent for vehicles and technical equipment as the risk of humidity or fingerprints on screens and cases. These difficult working conditions make the use of special equipment necessary, and this is where the rugged tablet proves to be relevant if not indispensable.
Conventional tablets are not designed to withstand shocks or even constant vibrations that can seriously damage them after a few uses. Vibrations therefore represent an extreme stress test for normal tablets. In addition to these material-related constraints and their usage conditions, there are technical constraints related to software.
Indeed, logistics companies face the particular challenge of automating and digitalizing their own processes. In modern logistics applications, they need highly reliable devices with integrated security, robustness, and mobility, which also allow for extremely fast processes.
Rugged tablets: all-terrain tablets
You can install rugged tablets in a truck, a car, or a lift cart, but you can also attach it to your belt, to a pole, or to your shoulder in a carry case and resume your work where you left off, even in extreme weather conditions.
Rugged tablets are resistant to both sunlight and weather, they are designed to withstand it. They can accompany logistics professionals everywhere they go. They are durable enough to withstand repeated drops, extreme temperatures, altitudes, humidity, water, and exposure to dust. Moreover, logistics professionals will be able to work all day thanks to the long battery life and the replaceable parts available on-site.
Data Collection and Integrated Communication
Rugged tablets have the classic capabilities of tablets, with additional useful skills for professional use.
They can collect and share all kinds of data:
Take high-resolution photos - Send photos or documents via email
Update the database in real time.
Issue delivery notes and keep them up to date
Store data securely
Some rugged tablets benefit from a gyroscope, compass, sensors, or antennas. The physical ports are waterproof and allow a connection regardless of the conditions. Depending on your needs, rugged tablets can be equipped with Windows or Android operating systems.
Rugged Pocket Tablets: More Features and Convenience
En fonction des modèles de tablettes durcies, vous pouvez avoir à portée de main la technologie appropriée pour assurer le bon déroulement des processus logistiques dans votre entreprise. Grâce à leur poids léger et à leurs sangles de transport, les tablettes durcies disponibles sur le marché sont imbattables, notamment en matière de mobilité et de manipulation. Certains modèles peuvent également survivre sans problème à des chutes d'une hauteur élevée. Des fonctions de lecture de codes à barres ainsi que des lecteurs RFID peuvent également se révéler très utiles au quotidien pour les chauffeurs livreurs ou dans les entrepôts.
Les données personnelles des employés peuvent être enregistrées en temps réel et tous les codes-barres 1D ou 2D des colis peuvent être facilement identifiés.
Touch tablet, mobile tablet: usage throughout the logistics chain
Small and large scale operations can benefit from the efficiency of transport, logistics, and supply chain offered by rugged tablets. For consumer goods distributors, the use of rugged mobile touchscreen computers can enhance supply chain management, from manufacturing to delivery.
Of course, in order to select the best equipment with the most advantageous quality-price ratio, we recommend brands such as: Winmate, Getac, Durabook, and Geshem. Integral System is a direct distributor of all these manufacturers.
Here are some examples of widely used applications in these areas.
Communication
When drivers are on the road, they must communicate to coordinate a wide range of logistical tasks, including scheduling and confirming deliveries, planning terminal loading times, etc. Rugged tablets can facilitate faster communication, resulting in a significant time savings.
Customer Support Enhanced with the Touch Tablet
Rugged tablets provide a better user experience as they reduce paper usage. Thanks to quick electronic communications regarding customer accounts and deliveries, information is displayed directly on the tablet.
Shipping and Delivery: The Role of the Logistics Tablet
Rugged tablets ensure that products arrive safely. Additionally, they allow for checking stock during loading, transport, and unloading so that you know exactly where each item is at any given moment.
Facilitating Inventory and Quality Control
Monitoring inventory during transport helps ensure the journey of goods and constant quality throughout the supply chain. Rugged tablets allow for tracking and monitoring goods, weights, and transport conditions.
Direct Store Delivery Made Easier with a Logistics Tablet
Direct store delivery allows sellers to sell or buy directly at the store, without going through retail distribution. With rugged tablets, customers are now looking for new mobile platforms that offer more power, larger screens, and the flexibility to run more applications that facilitate these operations. Rugged tablets provide very useful features for direct store delivery, such as easy communication between the delivery driver and the store, all in real-time. Indeed, when the bakery driver stops at the store, they take their rugged mobile tablet and connect to the store's computer or inventory to check the status and prepare an order.
Making Life Easier for Drivers with Rugged Tablets
Rugged tablets provide improved working conditions for drivers. They make their work life easier in many ways. Indeed, rugged touch tablets create a safer working environment for drivers by making the tracking, management, and precise sharing of data along the logistics chain easier and faster. Tracking therefore requires them less effort and time, allowing them to devote their time to higher value-added tasks. Rugged touch tablets offer a practical solution for logbooks, in addition to all the other features we have developed above. Rugged tablets thus ensure the smooth operation of your logistics chain, save you time, and improve your results.
Review: rugged tablets, all advantages to improve your logistics processes
The improvement of logistical processes through rugged tablets translates into a better overview of your workflow and improved tracking of products during transit. This results in better customer satisfaction. It is not uncommon to struggle to select the appropriate equipment based on your needs. Feel free to consult our file that helps you choose an industrial tablet.