MOTOTRBO – Keep Up With the Market and Keep Costs Down

Motorola Solutions released this fantastic case study about lowering your manufacturing costs after installing a MOTOTRBO digital radio system.

You’re on a challenging pace in manufacturing. With stiffer competition, tighter schedules, longer shifts and heightened emphasis on safety, today’s marketplace call for even greater efficiency and productivity to maintain an advantage, globally and locally.

In order to keep up and keep ahead, your workers need reliable, easy-to-use communications so you can increase their efficiency and productivity, improve plant safety, support long work shifts and rapidly respond to incidents, wherever they happen.

“With IP Site Connect and MOTOTRBO, there’s now solid and consistent communication between the dispatcher, mechanics and product personnel. With this new system, we can work much more efficiently, which translates into much higher profitability.” J.R. Vazquez, Dispatcher Georgia Nut Company, Illinois

The Challenge:

Whether you run a global network of warehouses or a collection of local plants, reliable communications throughout your entire footprint is vital for successful operations. Your workers need to connect clearly and without interruption – no matter where they are located or how loud their environment is.

Manufacturers need to:

• Unsure messages are received and understood by personnel
• Connect workers without interruptions or distractions
• Improve safety and task efficiency
• Speed response to changing plant conditions or incidents

The Solution

Our professional digital communication systems combine the best of two-way radio functionality with the latest digital technology. It integrates voice and data seamlessly, offers enhanced features that are easy to use and delivers twice the capacity of analog systems to meet your growing communication needs. With exceptional voice quality and longer battery life, MOTOTRBO keeps your workforce connected when communication is a must.

Our new MOTOTRBO SL Series, XPR 7000e and XPR 3000e Series radios offer a smart new feature in digital mode – Intelligent Audio – that adjusts radio volume to fit an environment’s noise level. This means that the radio automatically boosts the volume level when the supervisor is on the factory floor, then automatically reduces the volume when he moves into a quiet office area.

Empower Your Employees With The Power Of Digital Technology

Whether your employees are working the line or walking the factory floor, with MOTOTRBO digital two-way radios and accessories you can communicate clearly and conveniently. If an emergency or accident happens, you can locate the closest personnel and dispatch them for immediate response. And if you want to determine if deliveries are on time and sent to the correct locations, you can coordinate your fleet with exceptional productivity and proficiency.

Facilities Managers Can Expect Better Productivity And Better Results

Communicate Clearly With Exceptional Audio

Using the latest digital technology, MOTOTRBO provides clearer and crisper voice communications over a wider area than analog radios could ever do. Unlike analog, signal strength doesn’t drop off with distance or cause distracting static. MOTOTRBO digital radios deliver both voice and data with greater accuracy and virtually no loss throughout the coverage area. The result is clear communications with your workers no matter where they are in the plant.

Prioritize Communication Immediately

Emergencies do happen and you need to communicate with your workers when they do. MOTOTRBO’s transmit interrupt suite – with voice interrupt, emergency voice interrupt and data over voice interrupt – enables you to prioritize critical communication the moment you need it.

Track Supplies and Deliveries Even More Efficiently.

Quickly locating inbound supplies and outbound deliveries is vital to smooth operations. With MOTOTRBO’s integrated GPS module, you can view where inbound materials are and determine expected arrival times to prepare your receiving department. And you can view outbound locations to ensure deliveries are on time and sent to the correct locations – all while coordinating your fleet with exceptional productivity and proficiency.

Extend Coverage And Expand Capacity

Direct Mode / Conventional

A conventional system is a step up from basic radio-to-radio communications. Radios communicate via a high-power repeater, giving better coverage and more centralized control.

IP Site Connect

Use your IP network to extend the voice and data capabilities of MOTOTRBO by linking repeaters together. You can create a continuous network that covers employees at 15 geographically-dispersed locations. You can also link up to 15 repeaters to create wide area coverage or enhance coverage quality at a single site.

Capacity Plus

Expand the capacity and extend the coverage of MOTOTRBO with this entry-level digital trunking system. With multi-site Capacity Plus (formerly Linked Capacity Plus) you can connect up to 15 sites, each with up to 8 voice and data repeaters – plus up to 12 dedicated data repeaters.

Capacity Max

The next generation of trunking has arrived. MOTOTRBO Capacity Max blends innovation with Motorola’s extensive real-world experience of trunked radio systems to deliver a scalable communications solution that’s perfect for your business.

Connect Plus

Unify your entire enterprise with this scalable digital trunking system. Calls can be queued during busy times until an open channel is available, important users can be assigned priority status and a wireline console can be used for centralized dispatch.

Improve Service To Your Customer Base – Rural Electric Cooperatives Use MOTOTRBO Digital Two-way Radios

Utility poles topple. Power lines plummet. Outages occur across the country. Your work crews have plenty of territory to cover to respond quickly to repair and restore power. Instant dispatch and unbroken communication are so essential to managing your field force, you need a system that is 24/7/365 reliable wherever they go. A system so efficient and easy to use, it can increase safety, improve customer service and reduce operating costs, too.

“MOTOTRBO has given us nearly 100% coverage and the audio quality on the fringe is crystal clear, even when the background is noisy.” David Brokamp, Vice President of Engineering Sumter EMC, Americus GA

The Solution

Ensuring clear and continuous communication across your coverage area is vital to running your cooperative efficiently. Your employees work in loud and harsh outdoor environments where they can’t afford to miss a call or misunderstand a message. And they often endure long shifts where they depend on their radio to retain power and perform reliably. Analog radio systems are prone to drop-offs in coverage as they lose signal strength, as well as interruptions and interference from static and noise.

The Solution

Versatile and powerful, MOTOTRBO is the ideal solution. The MOTOTRBO professional digital communication systemcombines the best of two-way radio functionality with the latest digital technology. It integrates voice and data seamlessly, offers enhanced features that are easy to use and delivers impressive capacity and coverage to meet your growing communication needs. With exceptional voice quality and long battery life, MOTOTRBO keeps your mobile workers connected when communication is a must.

Equip Crews With A Better Power Tool: MOTOTRBO

The Result

Whether your mobile workers are on a hilly road or high up a pole, with MOTOTRBO™ digital two-way radios and accessories you can communicate clearly and conveniently. The advanced noise-cancellation technology removes background noise and boosts voice clarity. And when your team needs more than just voice, they can use MOTOTRBO for data transfer, text messaging and GPS location services.

MOTOTRBO BENEFITS Account Managers

• Reach your workforce anywhere they go with voice and data
• Improve efficiency and safety on the job
• Keep connected easily and seamlessly
• Accelerate your response and improve customer service
• Maximize your system investment and infrastructure
• Enhance value and reduce operating costs

Communication Managers Can Mobilize And Manage Workers. More Effectively

Communicate clearly with exceptional audio.
Using the latest digital technology, MOTOTRBO provides clearer and crisper voice communications over a wider area without interference or distracting static. MOTOTRBO digital radios deliver powerful voice, as well as advanced data features. The result is clear communications with your workers no matter where they are in the field.

Prioritize communication immediately. Emergencies do happen and you need to communicate with your workers when they do. MOTOTRBO’s transmit interrupt suite – with voice interrupt, emergency voice interrupt and data over voice interrupt – enables you to prioritize critical communication the moment you need it.

Share information quickly, easily and seamlessly.
Whether you need to send directions to the next work site or receive notification a job is complete, MOTOTRBO’s text messaging feature enables communication between radios and dispatch systems, between radios and email-addressable devices, and to remote PC clients attached to radios.

Keep connected with your workers in the field.
With the MIP 5000 radio console, you can have centralized dispatch capability for visibility and access to your mobile work teams no matter where their job takes them. MOTOTRBO’s integrated GPS gives you easy, immediate access to track your employees and your assets.

Extend coverage and expand capacity. Meet your communication needs today and in the future with a variety of MOTOTRBO solutions:

• IP Site Connect uses an IP network to extend the voice and data capabilities of MOTOTRBO. You can create a continuous network that covers your employees at 15 geographically-dispersed sites. Or you link up to 15 sites to create wide area coverage at a single site.
• Capacity Plus is the single site digital trunking solution that maximizes the capacity of your MOTOTRBO™ system. Use it to enable a high volume of voice and data communication for over a thousand users at a single site, without adding new frequencies.
• Connect Plus is the scalable, multi-site digital trunking solution that helps keep your mobile workforce connected. With this high capacity MOTOTRBO system, calls can be queued during busy times until an open channel is available, important users can be assigned priority status when the system is in high demand, and a wireline console can be used for centralized dispatch. Using the dispatch console, dynamic site roaming lets your people move from site to site without having to manually change channels.

Migrate at your own pace. With MOTOTRBO,
you can keep operations running smoothly during a change in communication systems. Since MOTOTRBO radios operate in analog and digital mode, you can use them on your existing analog system and begin migrating over to digital – one talk group or department at a time – while maintaining communication across your entire workforce.

Get exceptional value and cut costs.
By utilizing TDMA digital technology, MOTOTRBO enables two virtual channels within a single 12.5 kHz channel – double the capacity of analog. Since you don’t need a second repeater, you save on equipment costs, too.

By integrating voice and data in one device, MOTOTRBO saves you the expense of additional equipment for text messaging and GPS location tracking. And to help control the cost of replacing batteries prematurely, our leading-edge IMPRES technology automatically maintains your battery fleet to lengthen battery life.

Connect to Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems.
Combine MOTOTRBO with Motorola’s SCADA product, ACE3600 that helps manage peak demand and lower operating and maintenance costs. The ACE3600 Remote Terminal Unit is scalable, modular and can be used for simple pole top monitoring or to manage hundreds of I/Os at a small substation or interconnection point. It brings DNP3.0, MODBUS, IEC60870-5-101 protocol support through serial or IP ports. Certified with MOTOTRBO, ACE3600 brings unmatched data reliability and security in a single commercial, future-proof package.