Automation is one of the most productivity investment a company can make. Automation can help with repetitive tasks as well as automate many manual tasks. As a potential customer for automation, their are many systems available for data collection. Bar-coding is used widely as the main solution for data collection. It has been used on many commercial products used for identification (i.e. food products, clothing, vehicles). This solution has proven to be simple, efficient, and reliable for data collection.