How to start having a QA/barcode system?
Posted by raxusplays@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 3 comments
I'm opening a small business and I'm going to require a qa/barcode system to help track the equipment I use.
Basically, I receive my equipment sterilized from another company. The equipment comes with their own barcode.
What I'd like to do is to be able to scan the barcode, have it pop up in a tablet/computer and I can add notes in it. Something that can be accessible after with excel to print/file at the end of the day.
Hopefully I'd like to start something open source for now to keep costs low. If my needs increase, I'll look into pair services.
Plastic_Helicopter79@reddit
There are about 20 different barcodes standards, but generally any modern USB barcode scanner should be able to read any of them.
Depending on how much process control you desire, you can have multiple scanning stations to keep track of inventory as it moves through your business. Scan at reception, scan at entry into storage, scan at exit from storage, scan as it is opened/consumed/utilized.
You can also put your own barcodes on shelves in your storage facility, so when an item enters storage, employees scan the rack/shelf location where it is being kept. No typing needed, just scan item, scan shelf, done.
If your items have a potential gray market value, multiple scans as it moves through your business plus a camera system can help to protect you from internal product theft, as each scan can provide a timestamp of when it was last moved.
Depending on how deep down the item tracking rabbit hole you want to go, you can use portable wireless scanners and bluetooth low-energy location tracking (BLE) to know where a portable barcode scanner was used to scan something.
Totallynotaswede@reddit
Buy a QR/Barcode scanner, connect it to your PC. It will act like a keyboard, scan away and it will just enter whatever it reads as keyboard input.
You can put it into a system, notepad or excel etc.
Valdaraak@reddit
Snipe-IT.