1st April 2025
Data entry of address or customs information used to be a headache for postal and e-commerce companies, but Prime Vision’s new Smart Coding as a service (SCaaS) promises to change this.
27th February 2025
Errors in warehouse sorting cost money and have a negative quality impact, so logistics services aim to minimise them as much as possible. Mistakes usually occur at the edges of sorting automation systems, where workers manually move parcels from chutes into cages ready for transport to loading areas. Now, computer vision is offering a way to reduce errors without loss of efficiency, providing a real-time process quality checks without any additional steps.
6th February 2025
Offering products as a service allows users to test new technologies with reduced risks. This is good news for warehouse sorting operations in the parcels, ecommerce and fulfilment sector, where operators can struggle to justify replacing traditional manual processes with robots.
7th November 2024
Computer vision technology has rapidly replaced the human eye in logistical sorting processes. Cameras and artificial intelligence (AI) empowered software already reads labels, addresses, handwriting and barcodes on packages with incredible accuracy and speed.
3rd October 2024
E-commerce, postal and parcel companies can always rely on one thing: end customers will always want more flexibility. With fierce competition to reduce delivery times, companies are now fighting to cost-effectively accommodate last-minute changes to addresses or drop-off times.
10th September 2024
Until recently, the introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) and robots into the workplace was perceived as a threat to jobs. However, in the logistics sector, quite the opposite is happening.
14th August 2024
Following recent turmoil in the global employment market, countless businesses have reported problems in find the quantity and quality of workers needed to keep operations running smoothly. This labour shortage is being felt particularly strongly across the warehousing, logistics and e-commerce sectors, which are having to handle more packages than ever with fewer workers.Fortunately, both challenges can be partly addressed by a single piece of technology – the Prime Vision Flow Projector.
31st July 2024
Reading addresses accurately and efficiently is imperative for any successful address-based sorting or warehouse operation. Optical character recognition (OCR) has recently supplanted manual processing, but until now, implementation has been time-consuming and complex.
28th June 2024
Non-machinable or non-conveyable items are the bane of any postal or e-commerce sorting operation. Whether large, heavy, fragile, unstable or oddly shaped, these goods can’t be automatically sorted and instead require inefficient, manual processing.
26th June 2024
Every logistics company must contend with masses of data, and some of the most important information is held in forms and documents. Whether declarations for customs or important facts regarding contents, quickly interpreting this data for key decision making can accelerate any operation.