Today, just about the only things that are certain in the manufacturing, warehousing, and transportation industry are disruption and uncertainty. Especially with businesses struggling to satisfy rising demand under the dual constraints of ongoing supply chain disruption and continuing labor shortages.
For perspective,…

Why Label Selection Is Crucial To Your Operations
Determining how to pick the right barcode label to match your printer and application can be difficult with so many options on the market. When you use thermal label printers to produce barcode labels, the last thing you want to worry about is printing issues. Surprisingly,…

Low-Quality Barcode Labels and Supplies
If you’re having problems with downtime in your barcode labeling, scanning, and tracking operations, there’s a good chance it’s due to low-quality barcode labels or a mismatch of the wrong supplies with your environment or application.

This is why it’s important to understand…

Why You Need To Understand RFID Labels
Walmart announced earlier this year that they are expanding their use of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology to include many more product categories than previously. In September of 2022, the Walmart RFID mandate will be extended to cover thousands of suppliers who previously…

Early in 2022, Walmart announced a major expansion of its RFID program that will affect thousands of suppliers.
Under the new Walmart RFID mandate, all suppliers of home products, electronics, sporting goods, toys, and automotive batteries will need to add RFID tags to their products by September 2.
But the impact on…

Are your printers still performing at their peak?
It's commonplace for many businesses to use the same label printer for many years, and sometimes for well over a decade. After all, if your printer is getting the job done and it's been a reliable workhorse, why spend money to replace it with a new one?

If you're in…

Every business wants to get the longest life and the most performance out of every piece of equipment, including the barcode label printers you use every day. Ideally, you just want your label printer to work and keep working forever, without any headaches or hassles.

Nevertheless, even the most durable and high-performance…

Why Is The Right Label Important?
Selecting the correct labels that are optimized for your printer and use case is important for keeping operations smooth and efficient. You'll maximize your time and money with printing accuracy and prolonged printer life when you start on the right foot with your label selection.

Choosing…

One of the biggest lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic has been the need to ease the burden on our healthcare providers, not just by trying to keep them safe and prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed, but by doing whatever we can to make their job easier.

One way that our team at SK&T has been helping…

The past year has been one of the most challenging we’ve ever seen in the manufacturing sector, particularly with the unique convergence of several major trends and issues that are making it harder and tougher to meet production goals and meet customer demand.

Whether it’s been dealing with plant shutdowns, disruptions,…

Previously on our blog, we’ve talked a lot about patient safety. But with COVID-19 still raging and new variants of the coronavirus dominating the headlines, it’s easy to lose sight of the bigger picture with patient safety, where protecting patients is a big undertaking that involves a lot of processes and efforts…

Adoption of mobile technology continues to accelerate across the healthcare sector, with more and more organizations choosing to equip as many caregivers and staff as possible with mobile devices. Two goals are driving this transformation. First, of course, is the desire to ensure the right patient receives the right care…

Technology evolves at a remarkable rate, with an endless stream of new features that enhance performance, ease-of-use, and reliability. This holds true for everything from barcode scanners and desktop printers to mobile computers and tablets.

If you’ve been relying on the same mobile computers for many years, it’s…

Committing to a transformation of major business processes is a big step. The initial needs assessments and preliminary system designs alone will require time and resources. The up-front costs of new hardware and software are primary concerns, as are the overhead resources needed to deploy and integrate new tools. And you’ll…

From positive patient identification and medication administration to electronic medical record access and inventory management, there are many applications for barcode scanners in healthcare. Caregivers work with them in patient rooms, nurses’ stations, the pharmacy, lab, and other settings throughout every shift. A…

Small healthcare facilities like ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) and clinics have most of the same technology needs as large hospitals, just on a smaller scale. Workflows such as admitting and identifying patients, accessing and updating health records, collecting samples, and dispensing medications are common at every…

Some striking statistics from the IBM/Ponemon Institute “Cost of a Data Breach Report 2020”.
$3.86 Million – Average Total Cost to recover from a breach.

$7.13 Million = Healthcare's Average Total Cost per Attack – Highest industry cost

280 days – Average time to identify and contain
 

Nearly 28%…

Are you budgeting for 2021? Not the most exhilarating activity when it comes to running your facility, but it is an essential part of maintaining profitability. Whether you run a healthcare clinic, large IDN, manufacturing facility, energy company/installation, or you run a utility company, it’s a necessary task that…

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In late 2012, an outbreak of fungal meningitis linked to contaminated epidural steroids led to 753 infections and 64 deaths (asamonitor.pub/3ez66BW). Congressional inquiries

identified a slow FDA response and limited congressional intervention due to political and jurisdictional…

To minimize the spread of infection during the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s not just important to wash our hands, avoid touching our face, and maintain social distancing. It’s also critical to disinfect and clean our mobile devices regularly, especially in the healthcare industry and in enterprise businesses that are…

This year ambulatory surgery centers are taking a massive hit from COVID-19 shutdowns and cancellations of all elective surgeries.

Under normal circumstances, surgery centers have a tough enough time providing high-quality care and surgical procedures while keeping costs under control. But the financial reality has been…

When we’re printing barcode labels, many of us like to save on costs, so we buy cheaper labels and printing supplies. But we don’t realize that the money we save on up-front costs will often turn into much higher costs in the long run.

This is because cheaper labels and printing supplies are usually made with low-grade…

We understand that hospitals and surgery centers are constantly looking for ways to improve the process of medication labeling and documentation. Proper medication labeling leads to proper patient safety. In the past solutions have been complicated...until now.

We are excited to be partnering with Vigilant Software,…

Positive and accurate patient identification is absolutely critical in healthcare. A single mistake can lead to a dangerous mix-up of medications, a treatment error, or even death. Sadly, recent statistics show that we have a long way to go in avoiding mistakes and ensuring patient safety through positive identification.

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If you use enterprise mobile and printing technologies, and especially Zebra products, you may already be familiar with the GO Zebra Trade-in Program. But there are changes to the program this year, and it’s worth a careful look, particularly if you’re planning to upgrade your legacy devices or migrate from Windows…

At SK&T, we have over 20 years of experience with clients across almost every vertical. Over the past few decades, we've refined and optimized our approach to helping clients improve supply chain operations. The result is a unique total solution plan that we now use with clients in any industry. In this post, we'll…

Supply chains all over the world use RFID (radio frequency identification) to save time, decrease error rates, and keep an eye on inventory.

RFID can transform your business into a well-oiled, efficient machine. To understand how, let's discuss what RFID is, how to apply it to your supply chain, its shortcomings, and…

As mobility becomes more indispensable in warehouses and distribution centers, mobile printers bring added efficiency and productivity to multiple aspects of your supply chains. Utilizing mobile printers reduces errors and waste, saves employees time, and improves your return on investment.
A Costly Inefficiency
It's…

Many businesses utilize Microsoft devices in their supply chains and operations. But Microsoft is phasing out all of their rugged handheld devices. Starting from 2018 until 2023, Windows will end operating system upgrades, security enhancements, bug patches, and more for a variety of devices. Migrating to Android is often…

Copper Mountain is a premier ski resort based in the heart of the Rocky Mountains. With more than 2,500 acres of ski terrain and 14,000 skiers entering the ski lifts each day, Copper Mountain relies heavily on quick and efficient scanning operations.

When tasked with finding a mobile device to use in their lift lines,…

This Colorado VAR has turned healthcare data capture and bar-code priting into a profit center, watching sales in that vertical alone grew 21% in 2012.

You hear it all the time: Healthcare is a go-to vertical for the channel, especially for bar-coding and media solutions providers. That statement seems sound considering…