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Telxon Wireless Mobile Computers Help Chrysler Monitor Quality Control

6 August 1998

Telxon Wireless Mobile Computers Help Chrysler Monitor Quality Control

    AKRON, Ohio, Aug. 6 -- Telxon Corporation
announced today that its wireless mobile pen-based computers are helping
Chrysler Corporation to mount a first line of defense against
defects at Chrysler's Detroit Jefferson North Plant, where the popular Jeep
Grand Cherokee is produced.
    While fixed station terminals still play a major role in the quality
control process at Jefferson North, a Telxon wireless network has added a new
dimension in which Telxon pen-based computers speed real-time information from
anywhere in the manufacturing and test environment.  According to Marco Ochoa,
performance feedback system manager at the facility, the system is designed to
catch assembly line defects before the problem becomes widespread.
    "By going to wireless technology, it's just a matter of setting up mobile
computers, giving it to a technician and telling him to take it with him,"
Ochoa said.  "I don't have to incur the expense of running cable which has
reduced our costs significantly."
    One major application for the Telxon mobile computers is on the test track
adjacent to the plant, which simulates inclines, hills and other actual road
conditions.
    "If anything is going to go wrong, it will go wrong on the test track,"
Ochoa said.  "As the technician in the vehicle notices a defect, he stops the
car at that point, identifies the problem and touches that part of the vehicle
illustrated on the mobile computer screen. The information is immediately
transmitted to the mainframe computer to be accessed by everyone involved."
    If there is a problem, the vehicle is repaired and then returned to the
track for another test before passing inspection.  If a problem persists on a
number of vehicles, technicians scour the assembly line to find the root cause
and correct the situation.
    "With Telxon mobile computers we walk along the assembly line and scan the
vehicles to determine if a problem exists.  That gets us a lot closer and
helps us to pinpoint the problem."
    Ochoa said that as Grand Cherokee sales accelerate, Chrysler is expanding
the production line at the Jefferson North Assembly plant, which will enable
additional applications for Telxon wireless mobile computing technology.
    Telxon Corporation is a leading global designer and manufacturer of
wireless and mobile information systems for vertical markets.  The company
integrates advanced mobile computing and wireless data communication
technology with a wide array of peripherals, application-specific software and
global customer services for its customers in more than 60 countries around
the world.  Telxon's global web site address is:  http://www.telxon.com.