Zebra Enterprise Solutions Webinar to Showcase the Benefits of Automated Parts Replenishment in Lean, Flexible Manufacturing Environments

ZES Material Flow-Replenishment System Delivers New Efficiencies for Whirlpool
Corporation
--(Business Wire)--
Zebra Enterprise Solutions:

WHAT: Zebra Enterprise Solutions,
a division of Zebra
Technologies (Nasdaq:ZBRA),
and Whirlpool Corporation
will participate in a
webinar on May 6, 2009,
focusing on how the Zebra
Enterprise Solutions (ZES)
Material Flow-Replenishment
System automates the parts
replenishment processes at
one of Whirlpool
Corporation`s U.S.
manufacturing facilities.

Blending business
intelligence with real-time
consumption-based demand
data, the Zebra Material
Flow-Replenishment System
manages hundreds of parts
across multiple material
flow routes throughout the
Whirlpool factory. The
system tracks the exact
time of every part request,
prioritizes the requests,
and sends instructions to
forklift drivers - whose
vehicles are equipped with
Wi-Fi terminals - telling
them where to pick up and
deliver the parts.

Deployed in 45 days, the
Material Flow-Replenishment
solution has helped
Whirlpool:

• Reduce replenishment
cycle time

• Significantly reduce
delivery-related downtime

• Increase efficiencies
within the forklift
delivery system

WHEN: May 6, 2009 at 2 p.m. EDT

WHERE: To register for the online
webinar, please click here.

WHO: David Phillips, director of
sales engineering, Zebra
Enterprise Solutions
Mike Dumas, lead engineer,
Whirlpool Corporation
Jack Cassingham, senior
material engineer,
Whirlpool Corporation

Zebra Enterprise Solutions
Orlando De Bruce, 510-267-5052
odebruce@zebra.com
or
Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide
Ojas Naik, 312-397-6008
ojas.naik@ogilvypr.com

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