Mick Mountz: What happens inside those massive warehouses?
ميك مونتز: ماذا يحدث داخل تلك المستودعات الضخمة؟
Mick Mountz is the founder and CEO of Kiva Systems, making high-tech products for fast, cheap and efficient inventory fulfillment. In March 2012, Kiva was acquired by Amazon. Full bio
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breakthrough new approach
inventory inside of a warehouse.
pack and ship setting here.
hundreds of mobile robots,
من الروبوتات المتحركة،
of mobile robots,
And I'll get to the solution.
وسوف أصل للحل.
you ordered something online.
من على الإنترنت.
on your couch
absolutely had to have this red t-shirt.
into your shopping cart.
وأضفته إلى مشترياتك.
that green pair of pants
pair of shoes — click!
فنقرت أخرى!
assembled your order.
for a moment that
"submit order."
"تقديم الطلب."
shows up on your doorstep.
like, wow, there's my goo.
how those items of inventory
تمكنت المواد المخزّنه هذه
that box in the warehouse?
هذا الصندوق في المستودع؟
it's that guy right there.
middle of that picture,
pick-pack worker
order fulfillments setting.
spend 60 or 70 percent of their day
60 أو 70 بالمئة من يومهم
the warehouse.
as much as 5 or 10 miles
those items of inventory.
unproductive way to fill orders,
غير مجدية لتعبئة الطلبات،
unfulfilling way to fill orders.
first bumped into this problem.
بهذه المشكلة أول مرة.
in '99, 2000, the dot com boom.
1999 و 2000 أثناء ازدهار الإنترنت.
spectacular flame-out called Webvan.
السقوط يدعى (ويب فان).
millions of dollars with the notion that
grocery orders online.
البقالة من خلال الإنترنت.
that we couldn't do it cost effectively.
بذلك بشكل فعّال من حيث التكلفة.
that was very hard and very costly.
كانت صعبة ومكلفة للغاية.
to assemble 30 items of inventory
جمع 30 مادة مخزّنة
to deliver to the home.
لتسليمها للمنزل.
it was costing us 30 dollars.
بأنها كانت تكلفنا 30 دولار.
89¢ can of soup
بقيمة 89 سنت
pick and pack into that tote.
داخل الحقيبة.
tried to deliver it to the home.
إيصالها إلى المنزل.
during my one year at Webvan,
خلال سنة واحدة من العمل لدى ويبفان،
all the material-handling providers
specifically to solve each base picking.
لكل قاعدة انتقاء.
those three things in a box.
رتب تلك الأشياء الثلاثة في صندوق.
got to be a better way to do this.
طريقة أفضل للقيام بذلك.
was set up to pump
للضخ المتواجدة حاليًا
goo to retail stores.
and about a year and a half later,
وبعد حوالي عام وتصف،
It was still nagging at me.
thinking about it again.
on what I wanted as a pick worker,
ما أريده لو كنت عامل انتقاء،
how it should work.
on the problem.
I want to do is I want to put
in this box right here.
my hand and — poof! —
بيدي فقط و ــ فجأة! ــ
and I pack it into the order,
approach to solving the problem.
العامل المركزي لحل المشكلة.
is available to solve this problem?
لحلّ هذه المشكلة؟
and go, products can come and go.
تأتي وتذهب، المنتجات يمكن أن تأتي وتذهب.
pick worker the center of the problem,
الاختيار محور المشكلة،
them as productive as possible.
منتجين قدر الإمكان.
arrive at this notion?
a brainstorming exercise,
من تمرين لاستثارة الأفكار،
that many of you use,
testing your ideas.
at the limits — infinity, zero.
ــ ما لا نهاية، صفر.
challenged ourselves with the idea:
distribution center in China,
very low-cost market?
land is cheap.
تكون الأرض رخيصة.
an hour for direct labor
صفر من الدولارات في الساعة
square-foot distribution center?"
بمساحة مليون متر مربع؟"
led to ideas that said,
للأفكار التي قالت،
in the warehouse."
zero dollars per hour,
warehouse every morning at 8 a.m.,
كل صباح في الثامنة،
pick up one item of inventory
you hold the Mountain Dew,
وأنت التزم بماونتن ديو،
otherwise just stand there.
عدا عن ذلك إبق واقفًا هناك.
you guys talk amongst yourselves.
تكلموا فيما بينكم أبها الفتية.
pick it, put it in the tote, away it goes."
ـ يختاره ويضعه في الحقيبة وتنطلق الطلبية."
could walk and talk on their own?
والتحدث بنفسه؟
very powerful way
أسلوب فعّال جدًا
organize this warehouse.
labor isn't free,
versus awesome spectrum.
We'll put them on mobile shelving.
ــ سنضعهم على رفوف متحركة.
we'll move the inventory around.
وسنحرك السلع المخزّنة حولها.
then I'm sitting on my couch in 2008.
على أريكتي في 2008.
Olympics, the opening ceremonies?
حفل الافتتاح؟
couch when I saw this.
عندما شاهدت هذا.
the warehouse floor, the stadium floor.
أرض الإستاد.
actually relates to the idea
incredibly powerful, impressive digital art,
رقميًا مثيرًا للإعجاب وضخمًا بشكل لايصدّق.
I'm told,
coordination and communication.
بنظام النظير إلى النظير.
I'll squat down.
وأنا سأجلس القرفصاء.
some fabulous art.
power of emergence
start to talk with each other.
أن تتحدّث مع بعضها.
bit of the journey.
the practical reality of this idea?
لهذه الفكرة؟
that has about 10,000 different SKUs.
حوالي عشرة آلاف وحدة تخزين مختلفة.
green pens, yellow Post-It Notes.
ولصاقات الملحوظات الصفراء.
out to pick up the blue shelving pods.
لالتقاط الرفوف الزرقاء.
to the side of the building.
get to stay on the perimeter.
أن يتواجدوا في المحيط.
to pick up the shelves,
deliver them straight to the pick worker.
وتسليمها مباشرة إلى العامل.
is completely different.
the warehouse, she gets to stay still
ما عليها إلا البقاء
building can now come to her.
أن تصل إليها.
is very productive.
scan the bar code, pack it out.
الرموز وتعلّب.
you turn around,
ready to be picked and packed.
out all of the non-value added
مماليس له قيمة
wasting, waited time,
high-fidelity way to pick these orders,
لالتقاط هذه الطلبيات،
a laser, scan the UPC barcode,
which box it needs to go into.
الذي تريد الوصول إليه.
accurate and, it turns out,
environment for these pick workers.
the whole order.
not just a part of the order.
والأزرق ليس فقط كجزء من الطلبية
in control of their environment.
من التحكم ببيئتهم.
of this approach
to be more productive.
pervasive this way of thinking
طريقة التفكر هذه
functions in the warehouse.
is doing inside of the DC
الطريقة بفاعلية داخل العاصمة
parallel processing engine.
موازٍ ذو نطاق واسع.
cross-fertilization of ideas.
and we're thinking about
supercomputer architectures.
the right side of the screen
autonomous pick workers.
to leave and go to the bathroom,
والذهاب إلى الحمام،
productivity of the other nine workers.
العمال التسعة.
traditional method of using a conveyor.
التقليدية عند استخدام الناقل.
passes the order to you,
and pass it downstream.
for that serial process to work.
عملية العمل التسلسلية.
way to think about the warehouse.
في التعامل مع المستودع.
interesting in that we're tracking
من حيث أننا نتتبّع
of the products.
and adaptive algorithms
وقابلة للتكيف
of the warehouse.
the week leading up to Valentine's Day.
الأسبوع الذي يسبق عيد الحب.
moved to the front of the building
إلى الجزء الأمامي من المبنى
lot of orders in those pick stations.
من الطلبيات في إحدى المحطات.
and that candy, the leftover candy,
كل الحلويات، أو ما تبقى منها،
back of the warehouse
zone on the thermal map there.
الحرارية للمستودع.
approach using the parallel processing
للمعالجة الموازية
scale to ginormous.
الأصناف الضخمة
two pick stations, 20 pick stations,
أو عشرين محطة،
path planning algorithms
algorithms just work.
see that the inventory
perimeter of the building
the pick stations were.
out for themselves.
just one final video
this comes to bear
day in the life of.
to move inventory along the highway
المخزون على طول الممر السريع
into these pick stations.
in each station,
across the highway
get into a queuing system
to the pick worker.
adapt the speed of the pick workers.
التحكّم بسرعة عمال الإختيار.
and the slower pickers get few.
والأبطأ يصله أقل.
literally having that experience
التجربة حرفيًا
The product jumps into it.
she puts it in the bucket.
is kind of behind the scenes.
تبقى خلف الكواليس.
picking and packing portion of her job.
على الانتقاء والتعليب.
never has to leave her mat.
لن يكون عليها أبدًا مغادرة بساطها.
not only a more productive
way to fill orders.
fulfilling way to fill orders.
لتلبية الطلبيات.
that, though, is that workers
buildings now compete
in the Kiva zone that day.
(كيفا) في ذلك اليوم.
them on testimonial videos
day to play with their grandchildren,
للعب مع أحفادهم،
Kiva zone is so stress-free
"إن منطقة (كيفا) خالية من الضغط
my blood pressure medication."
so they told us not to use that video.
تستخدموا هذا الفيديو.
with today is the notion that
هو فكرة أنكم
to think and walk
processes and productivities can emerge.
وانتاجيات مدهشة.
you go to your front step
تذهبون إلى عتبة بابكم
you just ordered online,
the goo is in there,
as to whether a robot
and packing of that order.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Mick Mountz - CEO, Kiva SystemsMick Mountz is the founder and CEO of Kiva Systems, making high-tech products for fast, cheap and efficient inventory fulfillment. In March 2012, Kiva was acquired by Amazon.
Why you should listen
With the growing popularity of online shopping, Mick Mountz and his company are finding ways to make picking, packing and shipping those purchases a flexible and inexpensive process. He first began working on this hidden challenge while at Webvan, an online grocer. In 2003, he took his experience there and founded Kiva systems, a company whose innovative solutions have led to it being listed by Inc. as one of the fastest growing companies.
In March 2012, Kiva was acquired by Amazon for $775 million.
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