topVox 'Hears' The Cry For Low-Cost Voice Solutions
(March 2, 2010)
Voice–directed picking solutions have come a long way over the past 10 years. Thanks to continual improvements in its capabilities, such as being able to better “hear” workers voices and screen out background noises, coupled with a quick payback and as much as a 50 percent reduction in errors, the use of voice technology has become common in today’s food and beverage warehouses.
While the voice technology playing field in the United States has been dominated by a couple of leading solution providers, a small European company has slowly and stealthily developed a loyal client base in North America, Mexico and beyond.
That company, topVOX Corp., a subsidiary of the German company TopSystem, is the European market leader in voice technology. In recent years, however, firms such as third-party logistics provider ODW Logistics Inc. in Columbus, OH; Cooper-Booth Wholesale Co., a convenience store and restaurant distributor in Pennsylvania; and Bepensa, a Mexican distributor for Coca Cola beverages, have chosen solutions from topVOX.
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Schwabe North America: Voice is the right supplement
(January 1, 2010)
At Schwabe North America's new Green Bay distribution center, voice recognition and bar code technologies are working hand in hand. The result: improved throughput, productivity and accuracy.
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Food Logistics Announces Its 2009 FL100
(December 14, 2009)
Food Logistics, the only publication exclusively dedicated to the grocery and foodservice distribution supply chain, this week announced the sixth-annual listing of the FL100 in its November/December 2009 issue.
Each year, the editors of Food Logistics recognize 100 technology and solution providers that help grocery and foodservice distributors and manufacturers reach their business goals. This year, the magazine focused the theme on managing change through hard economic times with technology.
“The FL100 listing provides a guide for decision-making grocery and foodservice distribution and manufacturing executives,” explains Katherine Doherty, editor-in-chief of Food Logistics magazine. “These companies rely on technology to better manage their supply chains and help weather the financial storm. The FL100 recipients have demonstrated that they can meet our readers’ specific needs.”
After receiving nomination forms from end users and solution providers, the editorial staff culled through more than 140 submissions to compile this year’s listing. Final recipients are featured in the November/December 2009 issue of Food Logistics, as well as online at www.foodlogistics.com.
Food Logistics is honored to recognize top-VOX as a recipient for 2009.
top-VOX introduces latest release topSPEECH-Lydia® 6.0 (November 25, 2009)
New release offers
additional high-performance features in the voice industry!
With the release of topSpeech-Lydia 6.0, top-VOX now provides several new features which will further enhance its position as the market leader in speech recognition in the logistics industry.
The latest version of the top-VOX pick by voice solution now offers wireless telephony, which enables a direct connection between warehouse management and picker, another breakthrough for top-VOX in this market! In addition, topSpeech-Lydia 6.0 now also supports the WLAN standard 802.11i with WPA 2 including AES-256-encoding.
“With topSpeech-Lydia 6.0 we have created once again a package that enables our customers to further increase productivity, accuracy and efficiency. Our solution offers further potential to improve picking results, minimize costs, while increasing operating speed and number of orders processed”, states Andreas Finken, President of top-VOX.
top-VOX is active in Japan with its Pick by Voice Solutions (November 18, 2009)
Pick by Voice has now arrived in the land of the rising sun. Despite advanced and automated warehouses, local experts want to squeeze the last ounce of efficiency from logistics centres. With suitable know-how and high-performance solutions top-VOX, the IT specialist for logistics applications, comes to the aid of Japanese logistics experts with an introduction to voice controlled order picking. In the meantime, various PDA hardware manufacturers have been equipped with demo systems, and initial projects are already in the starting blocks.
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Voice technologies continues to find new inroads to the logistics industry (November 12, 2009)
While the economy has taken its toll on the sales of most types of technology serving the distribution industry, one has ridden out the storm fairly well - voice. For many companies looking to enter the technology arena, voice has offered the lower price point that allows them to do so.
Marceline Absil, vice president of marketing and sales at voice technology provider topVOX, based in Barrington, Ill., says that voice is an easy fix in an economic downturn.
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ODW - Warehouse Operations Get Rapid Returns with Voice (August 2009)
When rapid company growth swamped a warehouse's order system with paper, it was time to automate, says Larry Landtiser, General Manager, Strategic Customer Operations, for ODW Logistics. The hands-free environment that voice technology enabled caused it to win out over RF.
Productivity, safety, accuracy and performance was the company’s mantra back in 2005, but it was in danger of becoming an empty slogan with growth taking off the way it did.
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topVOX Selected As A 2009 Innovator by Food Logistics (July 9, 2009)
Voice–directed picking solutions have come a long way over the past 10 years. Thanks to continual improvements in its capabilities, such as being able to better “hear” workers voices and screen out background noises, coupled with a quick payback and as much as a 50 percent reduction in errors, the use of voice technology has become common in today’s food and beverage warehouses.
While the voice technology playing field in the United States has been dominated by a couple of leading solution providers, a small European company has slowly and stealthily developed a loyal client base in North America, Mexico and beyond.
That company, topVOX Corp., a subsidiary of the German company topsystem, is the European market leader in voice technology.
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top-VOX selects Gamma Solution as premier partner in Australia (March 21, 2009)
GAMMA SOLUTIONS, specializing in data capture hardware and software, and designs systems varying in complexity from simple programs for bar code readers in a batch mode to sophisticated implementations involving wireless infrastructure offers a wide range of specialist products and services that ensure its customers receive the maximum value from their investment.
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Cooper-Booth Wholesale Company implements latest technology in Voice Direct Picking! (March 9, 2009)
Cooper-Booth Wholesale Company, a wholesale distributor servicing convenience stores, restaurants, and universities will increase productivity and accuracy rates in its distribution center in Mountville, PA after implementation of the speaker independent voice topSpeech-Lydia solution from top-VOX Corporation, based in Barrington, IL.
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top-VOX Partners with Numina Group (January 2009)
top-VOX, manufacturer of an innovative voice system for the warehouse and distribution facilities, announced today a partnership with Numina Group. The partnership provides Numina Group with a world-class speech system that easily integrates into current WMS solutions including proven interfaces with SAP and various ERP systems.
"Numina Group has the trust and confidence of the market leaders, proven in-house expertise and top-quality services and support," said Marceline Absil, president of the US operations for top-VOX. "We are excited to be working together with a company that holds quality and innovation to a high regard."
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RFID unit enhances voice-directed picking (January 2009)
For effortless, automatic tracking of product identification, batch and serial numbers, topVOX showcased their new VOXter-RFID data reader in an in-booth press conference. The unit works in conjunction with the company’s pick-by-voice hardware, worn by pickers as they travel throughout a warehouse to fill orders.
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top-VOX, Numina Group partner (January 2009)
top-VOX, manufacturer of a voice-directed picking system for the warehouse and distribution facilities, announced a partnership with Numina Group on Tuesday at ProMat.
top-VOX, manufacturer of a voice-directed picking system for the warehouse and distribution facilities, announced a partnership with Numina Group on Tuesday at ProMat. The partnership provides Numina Group with a speech recognition system that easily integrates into current WMS solutions - including interfaces with SAP and various ERP systems.
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Coke, por favor (December 2008)
Coke, por favor. Bepensa, a producer and distributor of Coca-Cola beverages in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, has implemented a speaker-independent voice system, top- Speech Lydia, from TopVOX Corp. Bepensa, the Yucatan's leading beverage distributor, uses the voice system to pick products and to assure that the beverages are loaded onto the right delivery truck.
From the December 2008 issue of DCVELOCITY.
topSpeech Lydia, now in Mexico! (October 6, 2008)
Bepensa, a leading producer and distributor for Coca Cola beverages located at México´s Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, is achieving higher accuracy rates in its distribution center in Merida, Mexico since the implementation of the speaker independent voice topSpeech-Lydia solution from TopVOX Corp., based in Barrington, IL.
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Sadia shows why top-VOX is the Choice for Voice! (September 2008)
Sadia, one of Brazil's largest pork and poultry processors, recently made the decision to implement the voice solution of topVOX Corporation at several of their distribution centers in Brazil. Sadia supplies about 100 domestic and export markets. With some 1,000 products, Sadia is also one of Brazil's leading makers of convenience frozen foods and processed foods.
Read the article: www.foodlogistics.com
3PL seeing the benefits of voice from top-VOX. (May 1, 2008)
Logistics, in general, has among the highest rate of employee churn of all industries, and warehouse work tends to attract a large number of immigrants. Each new hire brings with him a new dialect and accent that can complicate recognition from a voice-based warehouse system. In some cases, it could take up to two hours or more to train typical systems to recognize each new employee’s voice.
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Voice software connects to SAP WMS without middleware (April 2008)
top-VOX Corporation presented the pick by voice topSPEECH-Lydia-Multimodal system for increased stock inventory management and efficiency in a booth press conference on Monday.
One of the principal benefits of the system, explained Marceline Absil, vice president of marketing and sales for top-VOX, is its ability to connect directly to SAP warehouse management systems without middleware.
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