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Vips, (Vehicle Inventory Processing System), is my employer's propitiatory software.
"Why would people be doing something to it inside a vehicle?" =
The employees drive new cars and trucks off the assembly line. With paper bar-codes provided by the plant that are inside the new vehicles the employees scan that bar-code by reaching out the driver's window and placing that paper bar-code under the scan beam of my installed Symbol DS9208 scanner. The driver then gets a 4" print that matches the location on the PC monitor that tells the employee driver where to park the new unit into a specific yard-row-bay location. A shuttle van picks up all the employees and they go back to the plant to p/u more vehicles as they come off the assembly line & the above process repeats.