Features
Summary
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FastFetch Major Features (continued)

• Minimal Training: The system is easy to operate, requiring only about ten minutes of training for new pickers. The PDAs or Tabet PC use prerecorded speech to speak voice commands in the preferred language of each picker when the picker logs into the system.
• Reliable Hardware: The PDAs and Tablet PCs are durable, industrial-strength units that are designed to be used in harsh environments. The controllers and light modules contain no moving parts, and the custom-designed light sensitive proximity switches are completely contained inside the raceway, ensuring years of reliable use. Each controller or transceiver continually monitors the status of the light modules connected to it and reports problems to the PDAs or Tabet PC so alternate actions (such as bar code scanning) can automatically and quickly be directed.  Click here to see photos of FastFetch hardware.
• Reconfigurable: Controllers and light modules can be slid right or left inside the wiring raceways as product locations are changed. Existing light modules can be removed and new light modules easily added by daisy chaining them to existing modules using RJ45 modular clips. 
• Scalable: More storage bay lights and carts can be added as your business grows. As many as 65,534 light controllers, each with 255 light modules, can be installed. And since the PDAs or Tabet PC are the only computers in active use, performance is not degraded as more carts or bays with light modules are added.
• Fault Tolerant: FastFetch is "tolerant" of hardware faults and can continue to operate in warehouse Wi-Fi (RF) dead spots since the PDA or Tablet PC holds all required picking data. If power to light modules temporarily fails, the PDAs or Tablet PCs will visually display the picking locations and verbally prompt pickers concerning where and how many items to pick and automatically convert to using bar code scanning.  All problems in FastFetch hardware are reported to the PDA or Tablet PC at picking time and sent to the centralized SQL server to alert maintenance personnel to take corrective action.
• Cost Effective: FastFetch uses reliable, inexpensive infrared (IR) technology, making it an extremely affordable alternative to traditional picking technologies. The total system cost is often less than 50% of other order fulfillment technologies, and the ROI payback period is typically 6 –18 months.
• Flexible: The system can support many other picking methods such as store distribution and dynamic slotting.   The FastFetch hardware and support software is available for integration into legacy systems.
• Dynamic Zone Picking:  FastFetch uses a clever method of cart passing in zones that keeps your workload perfectly balanced so that no picker ever waits to receive a cart from the prior picker.   Click here to see a demonstration of Dynamic Zone Picking.
• Web Reporting:  Using the internet, authorized users can view management performance reporting information by warehouse, zone, picker, pick ticket, short picks, etc (all filtered by date range) in both tabular and graphical representations.  Management can drill down on high level information to see the details underlying the information.
• Multiple Languages: FastFetch uses prerecorded speech for spoken commands to pickers, and based upon the login ID of the picker, selects the picker's preferred language.  If a client wants FastFetch to speak a language the system doesn't currently support, the client can record the voice of a picker speaking a predefined vocabulary using software provided by FastFetch and include that new vocabulary in the system.

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