Prime Vision to reveal “fantastic” figures at PosTech 2011
Prime Vision, the OCR specialist and systems integrator, will be announcing some “fantastic performance figures” at this year’s PosTech Conference in Dubai. The industry leading conference – the post and parcel sectors’ dedicated technology event – takes place on 14-16 March at The Hyatt Regency Hotel.
In a matter of just months Prime Vision’s Webcoding solution, that is central to the TNT Shore service, is delivering a better return than even Prime Vision anticipated. “In terms of cost reduction, quality improvement, resource flexibility, process simplification and speed of response, Webcoding has exceeded every expectation,” confirmed the company’s CEO, Eddy Thans.
Prime Vision’s Webcoding combines a decade of video-coding development with the latest workflow management technology. It has provided TNT Shore with a complex automated solution in a simple integrated package. Efficiencies have been raised and costs reduced by centralising and combining manual process workflow whilst enabling the customer to add functionality and new smart products to its service.
Once the Webcoding solution is in place, longer-term process and management improvements can be implemented immediately across the complete process. It also enables further outsourcing of manual tasks to lower-cost labour regions. For TNT the Prime Vision solution captures coding traffic from every sorting machine at every sorting centre for processing at the TNT Shore point-of-presence in Amsterdam that links to its offshore service.
The diversity of sorting machines and systems at each of the TNT sorting centre added to the complexity of the integration task. But this is where Prime Vision’s independence really paid dividends. Over the years it has built strong co-operative relationships with all the leading hardware vendors. This has put Prime Vision in a unique position of trust enabling it to be a powerful automation partner to both postal organisations and OEMs.
The Prime Vision solution for TNT Shore uses its standard workflow manager stationed on a server at each sorting centre. Together with each machine vendor, Prime Vision then created a machine-level interface that packaged any coding tasks, together with images of the mail piece, into the Prime Vision workflow manager. From here, all network and process functions are management by standard workflow solutions.
“I am delighted to be able to share with PosTech delegates the newly reported statistics from TNT Shore,” explained Prime Vision’s head of marketing, Mark Ryder. “They really do show the huge benefits achievable with Webcoding.”
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