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CASE STUDY CLARKDIETRICH
At a glance Profile: A newly formed joint venture, ClarkDietrich Building Systems is a national manufacturer of construction materials with a focus on providing complete building solutions to the construction marketplace. Business Challenge: The company looked to upgrade to a new hardware solution, but previous upgrades required IT personnel to travel to each of their 13 locations for implementation. They looked for an option that would allow them to deploy and manage their new handhelds remotely. Solution: • Intermec CK71 rugged mobile computers • Intermec ScanNGo, SmartSystems™ • Project Management from Key Solutions Results: $50,000 in saved travel and time costs due to remote deployment and management capabilities
CLARKDIETRICH SAVES BIG WITH INTERMEC “Using SmartSystems to deploy the new equipment saved the company over $50,000 in travel and deployment costs.”
Dave Stolz, Information Technologies Manager, ClarkDietrich
A newly formed joint venture, ClarkDietrich Building Systems is a
national manufacturer of construction materials with a focus on providing complete building solutions to the construction marketplace. ClarkWestern Building Systems and Dietrich Metal Framing have consistently set the standard for quality and leadership in the industry and have built the finest reputation as major suppliers of lath and steel framing systems in the United States. ClarkDietrich now operates 13 manufacturing facilities, with specialties including coldformed steel framing, clips connectors, structural engineering services, metal lath and plaster steel accessories, vinyl trims and beads, etc.
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With the merger of ClarkWestern and Dietrich, the facilities now had several platforms of data collection equipment to support. The custom-developed data collection application ran on a Windows Mobile platform and connected to a central server. ClarkDietrich was looking to improve the wireless connection speeds for their devices as well as standardize on one unit used across all facilities with an integrated Extended Range Scanner. The Intermec CK71 with N radio provided one of the fastest radios on the market, as well as a faster processor and the best 2D imager extended range scanner with the EX25 scan engine. ClarkDietrich had worked with Intermec partner Key Solutions in previous upgrades of the data collection equipment. The partner provided demo gear, an understanding of the business, as well as an understanding of the Intermec product offerings. In past installations, a member of the company’s IT department would travel to each facility to help configure and install the hardware. However for this installation, Key Solutions recommended Intermec SmartSystems with the ScanNGo feature for a remote deployment option. ClarkDietrich’s IT department was then able to use ScanNGo to setup the radio settings to get the hardware onto
the network. A separate ScanNGo bar code was then created for the network settings and security information for each facility. Another 2D barcode was scanned to load the custom application CAB file from a server on the network.
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By doing this, the units were configured at the corporate headquarters and then sent to each individual facility. No one from IT then needed to travel to the various plants for configuration. The roll out process went very smoothly and each site was able to setup the units themselves. “Using SmartSystems to deploy the new equipment saved the company over $ 50,000 in travel and deployment costs alone,” said Dave Stolz, IT Manager for ClarkDietrich. The customer reports the seamless integration with the SmartSystems barcodes, and the extended range scanner are the best features of the new equipment. ClarkDietrich is now able to use the features of SmartSystems to manage the devices remotely, as corporate IT is not where any of the plants are located. This has afforded them major improvement in efficiency and cost effectiveness, making them a very happy customer.
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