How Does Your Company Handle Mobile Devices?

Our ability to communicate is changing rapidly. From the time that Alexander Bell first patented the telephone in 1876 until the introduction of cell phones in the 1970’s, the basic telephone did not change much in 100 years. In the past thirty years we have seen the introduction of the internet, tablet devices, and cell phones that can connect to anything and everything that has ‘electronic messaging’ capability. You can now be at home or in another country and monitor a machine running at your production plant.

Along with all these amazing capabilities comes problems. Securing all this information from people you don’t want to have it, is a serious concern. You must also guard it against others who can cause malicious damage. All of this is a big challenge for small companies that cannot afford to staff an IT Dept. Yet to compete with the larger companies, they need to have a certain amount of communication capabilities.

How does your company handle these challenges? What levels of communication do you allow and how do you keep up with all the changes in the industry?

The author, Marge Bonura, is the Director of Sales & Marketing for New England Machinery, Inc. (NEM). NEM is a leading packaging machinery manufacturer of bottle unscramblers, cappers, orienters, retorquers, lidders, pluggers, pump sorter/placers, scoop feeders, hopper elevators and much more. The company has been in business since 1974 selling to the food, beverage, pharmaceutical, personal care, chemical, household products, automotive and other industries. For more information on NEM, visit their website at www.neminc.com.