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Imperial Tobacco Canada has been Canada 's leading tobacco company for over eighty years, producing two-thirds of Canada 's cigarettes including du Maurier, Players, and Matinee.

Imperial is currently running a cigarette manufacturing plant in Guelph , Ontario , and a tobacco processing facility in Aylmer , Ontario . Their corporate office is in Montreal .

The Challenge

Imperial Tobacco was dispatching forklifts to move materials and products with an old-fashioned paper-based requisition and confirmation systems. A computer-based system would be faster and more responsive, with greater accuracy and easier record keeping.

The problem - mounting a computer on a moving forklift. PCs are large, and the vibration and movement of the forklifts are extremely damaging to hard drives. ThinManager Ready Thin Clients provided the solution.

Implementation

Imperial researched Thin Clients and found that ACP provided the features that they needed. They attended an ACP Forum to learn the details and then set about deploying Thin Clients on the forklift project.

They chose Xycom XA3412T units with an integrated touch screen, powered with 24v DC from the forklift. The units connect to the network through an Enterasys RoamAbout wireless transmitter. This communicates with the wireless network that Imperial already had in place.

Benefits

Remote Management
Scalability
Flexibility
Performance
Manageability

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About ACP
All Advantech ACP Enabled Thin Clients work with ACP's ThinManager®, allowing the user to maintain, upgrade and replace Thin Client devices on the network quickly and efficiently. ThinManager®'s intuitive Windows Explorer-like interface provides at-a-glance management of all connected Advantech Thin Clients. Because ThinManager® is also a client enabling technology, each connected client is guaranteed to have the same internal software, assuring uniformity of operation across a wide variety of Advantech ACP Enabled Thin Client modules.