Tracking/Reporting System increases trucking yards control.
Press Release Summary:
Through real-time tracking and reporting by mobile scanners and Web-based application, Yard Director(TM) Yard Management System (YMS) provides asset visibility, compliance, and controls for trucking yard operations. It enables users to locate and track critical information about vehicles entering facility, including temperature, fuel, mileage, and detention alerts. Along with email alerts, modular solution supports 802.11 a/b/g and iDEN/GPRS/EDGE wireless terminals.
Original Press Release:
Raco Industries Announces Yard Director(TM), a Web-Based Application Providing a New World of Efficiency, Visibility, and Control for Trucking Yards
Cincinnati, OH, March 20, 2006 RACO Industries announces the Yard Director(TM) Yard Management System (YMS), designed to deliver instant return-on-investment and provide state of the art efficiency, asset visibility, compliance and controls for trucking yard operations. Through real-time tracking and reporting by mobile scanners and a web based application, security, driver and yard management staff can locate and track critical information about each vehicle that enters a facility including temperature, fuel, mileage, and detention alerts.
Yard Director(TM) YMS is designed from the ground up to be a simple, modular, extensible web-based application. This design reduces long-term administrative costs and ensures flexibility in the choice of hardware platforms. Yard Director(TM) supports both 802.11 a/b/g and iDEN/GPRS/EDGE wireless terminals. It is easy and inexpensive to customize to different specific business processes using web services and XML. and it can be up and running in days, not weeks!
Yard Director(TM) supports email alerts that are triggered when user defined thresholds are crossed. For example, if the temperature of a refrigerated trailer goes above 32' degrees, Yard Director(TM) will send an email alert to users whose user profiles indicate they should receive that alert. On-site administrators can configure the alert thresholds through the web based administration console in Yard Director and new alert types can be custom tailored to each unique business.
With Yard Director(TM), security logs all plant ingress and egress with wireless hand-held scanners, and optionally generates a bar coded YMS tag using a wireless printer for each vehicle, which can be used to speed and simplify vehicle identification. This provides complete control over all vehicles in the yard and their status.
About RACO Industries, LLC
Founded in 1991 and based in Cincinnati, Ohio, RACO Industries, LLC is a leading value added distributor of technology products including bar coding equipment and supplies, wireless data devices and GPS tracking solutions. RACO's customers include many Fortune 1000 companies, mid-sized organizations, and small businesses who utilize our solutions to gain real time visibility to information at the point of service, thereby increasing operational efficiency, reducing costs and providing timelier customer service.
If you'd like more information about this product or to schedule an interview with Larry Sherman, please call 800-446-1991 or e-mail lsherman@racoindustries.com. You can also visit www.racoindustries.com or www.yardmanagementsystem.com
Yard Director(TM) is a trademark of Libertas Technologies, LLC.
