Since 1926, The Mt. Olive Pickle Company has grown to be the best selling brand of pickles in the Southeast, and the second-best selling brand of non-refrigerated pickles in the country.

The company has developed close ties at home with the community of Mount Olive, North Carolina as well as a productive relationship with educational institutions in the fields of horticulture, food science and engineering.

Solution that not only delivered the required RFID-coding and automation monitoring functions using industry standard 802.11 wireless, but also allowed the infrastructure to be leveraged for other valuable applications like VoIP and PDA usage.

31 SCALANCE W Access Points were installed to deliver rugged wireless access

8 HiPath Wireless Access Points ware installed in the office areas

Specifically, a „paperless“ work order entry system was put in a place that would introduce significant time/money savings on maintenance overhead, and the introduction of VoWLAN replaced costly Motorola/Nextel two-way radios and provided superior coverage, and WinCC mobility throughout the facilities.

The highly secure and manageable wireless infrastructure has dramatically improved business process at Mount Olive.

Over the next three years, the HiPath Wireless solution is expected to deliver more than $3 million in savings over the three years, with a payback on the initial project investment coming in less than six months. Using a Centralized Controller for managing and securing the network

Using PDAs for paperless maintenance workorder system

RFID implementation

Automation and Tank Monitoring

Replacement of two-way radios (Motorola/Nextel)

A ruggedized architecture via Scalance W