Return on Mobility: It’s Payback Time

Return on Mobility™: It’s Payback Time

The Four Drivers of Return on Mobility™

An intelligent mobile workforce doesn’t come cheap. Mobile applications, devices, maintenance and support all cost money (the only thing that costs more is NOT mobilising at all).

But how do you know you’re getting the very best return on this investment?

At Psion , we’re continually analysing the factors that drive Return on Mobility™ and we design solutions that reflect this understanding. To us, Return on Mobility™ comes down to four drivers:

Task Efficiencies

Task efficiencies is about helping your mobile workers do the things they already do – but do them faster and more accurately.

Whether it’s a warehouse worker replenishing the shelves, a field service engineer making an on-site repair or a courier delivering a package, a few seconds improvement in a task’s efficiency soon multiplies out to thousands of man-hours per month.

When we design a rugged mobile computer or data collection terminal, we’re acutely aware of every little nuance that might affect efficiency. To the mobile worker, it’s the way their thumb just happens to rest on the scan button. To managers like you, it all adds up to real money.

Application Availability

The best mobile applications and technology in the world are utterly useless if the battery has run down, the ‘Enter’ key has fallen off or the radio can’t find the network.

Application Availability is all about uptime, all shift long, day after day after day – no matter what the conditions are.

Ruggedness is a huge part of this and Psion has a global reputation for building the most rugged devices on the market. Find out why here.

But Application Availability is also driven by battery life and radio effectiveness. So we put an enormous effort into squeezing every last coulomb from our batteries and making our antennas super-sensitive and immune to interference.

These aren’t just tweaks. These contribute significant, measurable improvements to your Return on Mobility™

Information Dividends

This is about getting the right information to the right place, the instant it’s needed. If you are a service engineer or your delivery driver is standing in front of a customer, this matters a lot. And even if they’re back-of-house, their productivity depends on information.

At Psion , we work closely with our application partners to deliver whole solutions that generate real information dividends. The result is smoother operations, happier customers and a boost to the bottom line.

Change Resilience

Predicting your exact needs is hard enough in a static world. In a dynamic market like yours, it’s almost impossible to see more than a few years ahead.

Change Resilience is a combination of flexibility and extendability – two more areas where Psion leads the industry, with our innovative Modulus™ platform.

Modulus™ makes a difference when you need to configure your handheld fleet differently for different uses – maybe your order pickers need an alpha keypad and your maintenance engineers need alphanumeric. Or your indoor workers need a transmissive screen but your outdoor workers prefer a reflective one.

It’s also makes a difference if, a year or so down the road, you decide to switch from 1D to 2D barcode scanning. Other vendors would force you to throw out your entire device fleet to make such a profound change. With Modulus™ on the WORKABOUT PRO, it could be as simple as snapping on a 2D reader end cap.

In short, Modulus™ improves your responsiveness to change and extends the usefulness of your devices far into the future.

Boost your RoM™

Anyone can take a generic PDA and wrap it in rubber. But to make a real contribution to Return on Mobility™ you need a partner who specialises in exactly that. A partner who understands the mobile worker, the nature of mobile tasks and the systems needed to turbo-charge both.