History of Heavey Technology
Heavey Technology was founded by Michael Heavey in 1989 in order to sell Fargo, or as they were later called, Datamax label printers to the Irish industrial market.
Fargo/Datamax printers proved to be very popular, especially in the Irish Food processing market.
Datamax printers were very robust, reliable, and quite easy to use by factory operatives. Bar coding technology was becoming very popular within Irish industry in the 1980`s and Michael Heavey had installed one of the first labeling and scanning systems to the Irish Food Industry in 1983 as an employee of Toledo Scale.
The bar coding hardware used by Toledo at that time was manufactured by Intermec, who remain to this day a major manufacturer of bar coding hardware, both for label printing and bar code scanning. This first system involved a weighing scale base, weight indicator, and harsh environment computer, manufactured by Toledo, with label printer and scanners manufactured by Intermec. The application was the weighing, labeling, and recording of Fresh Pork, destined for the Japanese market.
The Toledo scale and Intermec label printer logged and labeled boxed pork into stock, and the Intermec scanners logged the finished product out of stock.
The system was very accurate and efficient and produced excellent results and value for money for the Pork company concerned. The experience Heavey gained in these type of industrial bar coding applications between 1983 and 1989, stood him in good stead thereafter. Heavey understood that the old maxim of “good engineering does not cost you……..it pays you” was very relevant to the bar coding business.
