Prime Vision offering “health checks” for postal automation systems
Dutch mail processing technology specialist Prime Vision is now encouraging its customers to carry out a “health check” on their postal automation systems. The company that supplies optical character recognition technology and associated mail processing software platforms is providing consulting services through its Competence Centre.
It is investing “heavily” in the project in the belief that it can help customers squeeze out costs and improve productivity by identifying where improvements can be made in automation systems.
Prime Vision said it is not affiliated with hardware providers, and although it has worked with “the majority” of them, it can recommend solutions that are “truly best for the job”.
In many cases, its assistance can complement in-house efficiency teams within postal organisations, Prime Vision said.
Hans Kamperman, the joint head of operations at Prime Vision, said: “For these customers it’s more a case of adding functionality and building in flexibility to accommodate market changes and protect revenue.
“There could be a bottleneck at the sorter caused by problems on the induction lines. Or maybe images are not being captured or read competently. Our consultancy service covers all the variables that influence process efficiency,” he said.
Prime Vision, which has its head office in Delft, near the Hague, has been in the business of automating mail processing since spinning out of the National Postal and Telecommunications Corporation (PTT) in the Netherlands in 1956.
With mail volumes now declining across the world and financial pressure mounting for postal organisations, the company said its customers need to be looking for smart technology to extract every possible percentage point of efficiency from their processing systems.
Kamperman said: “Prime Vision is expert in this field and we therefore invite any postal organisation to take advantage of our automation ‘health check’ to ensure optimal productivity in 2012 and beyond.”
