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Casino in Shawnee, Oklahoma, said: MEI’s SC83
“Right away we saw changes in the
number of employees it took to drop the
floor. We reduced our staff in the pull
and count by five; this means we reduced
the drop/pull staff requirement by 45
percent after installing ICB. The
streamlined drop processes allowed me to
reduce our pull and count staff
expenditure by $125,000 per year.”,”
Nieman reports. But JCM doesn’t have
the market to itself…
“Given our expertise in security and
acceptance, extending beyond the game
and into the soft count room is a natural
progression for MEI,” explains Mark Greenawalt, MEI’s European Gaming
Director. “Our Easitrax system has been introduced at several casinos to
rave reviews and will be launched internationally soon.”
RFID technology allows operators to align a cashbox with a particular
slot machine. The cashbox knows how much money is inside and
communicates that to the soft count room without the need to open the
box. Manual writing and wanding are eliminated. The result is a
reduction in required labor and an increase in efficiency.
“The amount of detail that can be extracted, and the ease in which the
system operates is revolutionary,” says Greenawalt. The slot manager, just
through the process of dropping cash, will know exactly what is
happening on the floor – the quantity of 20-, 50- and 100-
denomination notes, which assets those came from, how many jams and
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the acceptance rate from each machine, and latest version of software
throughout the floor.”
The first US casino to go live with Easitrax was the Four Winds in
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Michigan. “That installation has allowed us to verify the value of this
product,” says Greenawalt. “Now, as casinos hear about the results at
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Four Winds and subsequent installations, they are lining up around the
world to be next.
“Easitrax provides the means to quickly get detailed information
collected, collated and into the hands of the slot manager to take
immediate action,” says Greenawalt. “It is consistent with what our
customers have come to expect from MEI. We may not have been the
first to market, but our product has redefined expectations from the
industry.”
Diagnostics, maintenance and on-floor upgrades
The MEI Portable Programming Module (PPM) and Support Tool Suite
(STS) system allows new software to be loaded from a hand-held device
into a bill validator in under 25 seconds, according to Greenawalt.
“It also allows operators to take audit data directly from the slot
machine. So instead of just allowing you to put data in, information can
now be extracted from the bill validator to track performance and
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properly check the acceptance rate (by calculating the number of motor
Cummins coin counters and sorters for over 20 years.
starts compared to the number of stacked notes).
• Jetsort high speed coin counter/sorters
“The other thing STS provides is the ability to troubleshoot potential
• Desktop counters
problems. Diagnostics are provided to review the motors and sensor
• Scales
performance while the unit is still inside the slot machine. This service
• Jetcount note counters
helps create the greatest amount of uptime and, as a result, the greatest
• Jetscan mixed note scanners
opportunity for players to play. It’s another feature that sets MEI apart
Call Cummins today to see how you can make counting
from the competition.”
and sorting coins and notes less of a chore.
Money Controls' makes similar claims about the Ardac Elite EP, its
EURO READY single-button, battery-powered, hand-held device, as Group Applications
Manager, David John, explained: "With this device, new note tables can
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more, it enables data from up to 250 different machines, including
acceptance rates and denomination of notes, to be extracted and
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