Introducing CortexScan+ Pro: The Mobile App Revolutionizing Industrial Barcode Scanning for Accuracy and Efficiency

Discover How CortexScan+ Pro Transforms Mobile Barcode Scanning with Industry-Leading Accuracy, Versatility and Speed for Auto Manufacturing and Industry

Code Corporation’s new CortexScan+ Pro Scanner app transforms iOS and Android devices into professional-grade barcode scanners that decode, store and transmit data. A high-performance QR and barcode reader with export, CortexScan+ rapidly scans 40+ barcode types with 99.9995% accuracy, including direct part marking (DPM), Code128, DataMatrix and QR codes. No competitor on Google Play or Apple App Store matches Code’s speed, accuracy or capability.

Here are ten ways CortexScan+ improves manufacturing and commerce with worry-free mobile data capture:

1. Ad-free — launch and scan
2. Near Zero Miss scan accuracy — missed scans won’t slow your workflow
3. Scan tiny, shiny, curvy barcodes — easily decode mini metal-engraved barcodes
4. DPM optimizations — laser, chemical or dot peen…however you make your mark, CortexScan+ decodes it
5. Bulk scanning — read 30+ barcodes simultaneously
6. Low-light and low-contrast compensation — app adapts to you, not vice versa
7. Workday data organization — automatic data organization in your camera reel
8. Easy export — format data as CSV, JSON, etc. Merge, edit and send via SMS, email and third-party and native apps, e.g., Apple AirDrop
9. Affordable — get professional-grade industrial scanning without professional-grade prices through $9.99 monthly and $99 annual subscriptions
10. Trust — Your data, your privacy. Data collected by CortexScan+ is not sold, making Code’s app unique among smartphone scanner apps.

2011’s Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0) ushered in world-changing advancements via automation, smart machinery and barcodes. Data-hungry Industry 4.0 also created an opening for Code’s fast and reliable industrial barcode scanning solutions and the CortexScan+ app. So, we’re reviewing a few manufacturing trends CortexScan+ helps overcome.

How CortexScan+ Pro Improves Industrial Data Capture for Android and iOS Scanners

Manufacturing emerged from pandemic-created chaos with ardent needs for supply chain resiliency. However, many batch processors and discrete manufacturers have additional obstacles that CortexScan+ mitigates with reliable manufacturing barcode scanning.

Batch process manufacturers sequentially combine raw materials to produce bulk goods, such as cookies. Production and packaging data CortexScan+ gathers would benefit a Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) firm riding trends to expand market share.

Example: In analyzing category, marketing and social media data, a CPG firm launches a pumpkin spice variant of their flagship product. Incorporating non-commodity ingredients into batch production — where machinery is typically washed down and reset between batches — complicates quality assurance and safety. Below is how CortexScan+ can help with Code-exclusive Scan Small, Scan All technology and easy data export into an enterprise resource planning system (ERP):

1. Dependably scanning EAN-13 or UPC-A barcodes on incoming Ceylon cinnamon — barcodes can get damaged or scuffed after ocean voyages.
2. Transmit ingredient info into batch data, which then follows from production to point-of-sale.
3. If the cinnamon is recalled, barcode data in the ERP helps efficiently trace affected batches.

Batch process manufacturers and retailers also face the Sunrise 2027 Initiative. Retailers are shelving 1D UPC barcodes in 2027 for info-rich DataMatrix 2D barcodes. Producers, distributors and retailers will need 2D barcode scanners.

• If a future seasonal product is recalled, batch data CortexScan+ captured during production will trigger a "stop sale" at checkout.

Discrete manufacturers differ from batch processors by simultaneously coordinating suppliers and internal processes to build distinct goods — like a barcode reader or SUV — from individual parts. Automakers, in particular, are facing many sustainability-driven changes, and CortexScan+ Pro is ready to help as a dependable, affordable DPM and QR code scanner.

Example: Consumers and governments are pressing automakers to incorporate more recyclability, sustainability and reused materials into designs. The process requires costly R&D and testing, so brands have started small by turning yesterday’s water bottles into today’s bumpers and seat frames. They’re also readying today’s hemp, mushrooms and denim scraps to become tomorrow’s interior switches and armrests. However, BMW’s MINI brand has already gone big with highly sustainable interior materials and a fully recyclable interior prototype. Next-generation interior materials will need a dependable DPM scanning solution.

When sustainable parts are production-ready, manufacturing engineers and line workers won’t risk efficiency with smartphone scanners that can’t decode DPMs on bio-circular plastics, salvaged materials and recycled aluminum. CortexScan+ will be ready because it rapidly decodes DPMs, QR codes and 2D DataMatrix codes on metal, wood and plastic — most QR code scanner apps can’t. That’s because CortexScan+ is optimized so iOS scanners and Android mobile scanners can dependably decode DPMs engraved via laser, chemicals or dot peen. Try for yourself with a seven-day unlimited scanning trial on your iPhone or Android device.

CortexScan+ Pro Scanner Fits Manufacturing’s Flexible Future

Sustainability also drives automakers toward their next big speed bump: flexible manufacturing lines for electrified vehicles.

Flexible manufacturing systems (FMS) are not new. Automakers have long toggled between producing a midsize sedan and a closely related crossover on the same line. However, automakers must now build gas-powered, hybrid and plug-in hybrid (PHEV) or fully electric variants of the same sedan, or related SUV, on the same line without line changeover.

CortexScan+ can help automakers with multiple benefits that most QR scanner apps don’t have, including:

1. Settings to ignore irrelevant or duplicated barcodes

Did you know that while a typical internal combustion engine (ICE) uses 2,000+ moving parts, electric motors use about 20? Understandably, this discrepancy could lead to assembly errors as automakers consolidate production of hybrid and ICE engines on the same line or use the same production line to build ICE, hybrid, plug-in hybrids (PHEV) and full EVs.

CortexScan+ will save time for auto workers on diversifying assembly lines who likely have powertrain-specific data capture needs. For instance, they may only need to scan 10 DPMs out of 30 parts because those are the only ones relevant to an EV. A great example: CortexDecoder+ can ignore the 2D barcodes on fuel pumps and lines that ICE, hybrid and PHEV variants share; these parts are irrelevant to EVs.

2. Batch Scan

Automakers periodically co-develop and manufacture low-cost or low-volume models, such as the BMW Z4 and Toyota Supra. One plant produces each with virtually identical internals but brand-specific suspension components and cosmetics like front fascias and interiors. Ten BMW-bound convertible bodies shuffle down the line, each needing dozens of scans for specialized weather stripping and fasteners, which BMW then records. Five hardtop Toyota bodies follow, needing scans to enter roof-sealing grommets into Toyota’s records.

3. Continuous Scan

An efficient American auto plant produces 1,350+ of one SUV model daily. CortexScan can continuously scan barcodes as components flow into a U-shaped cell for install on a trim-specific dashboard with additional features. Another CortexScan+ use: a line worker scans DPMs on the parts all ICE, hybrids, PHEVs and EVs use — these include transmission mounts and wiring harnesses.

CortexScan+ Pro Scan Takes Data-Driven Gains Company-Wide

Launching at $9.99 monthly for one user or $99 annually, the CortexScan+ QR code and barcode scanner app is an affordable data capture solution for multinational conglomerates and small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) alike.

• Small electronics repair franchises, for instance, would benefit from CortexScan+ because it scans tiny, shiny, curvy barcodes found on smartphone LCDs.
• Large-scale enterprises and SMB entrepreneurs will see additional value in the upcoming CortexScan+ multi-device license. For instance, broader CortexScan+ availability improves (or enables) asset tracking for facility maintenance and accounting.

Bringing Code’s 25+ years of barcode scanning innovation to your iOS or Android devices begins by downloading CortexScan+ Pro Scanner and trying it for free. If you have questions, contact Code. Our data capture experts will help you get the most from CortexScan+ to improve your product, process or project.