Mick Mountz: What happens inside those massive warehouses?
מיק מונץ: מה מתרחש בתוך המחסנים הענקיים הללו?
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,
of mobile robots,
And I'll get to the solution.
you ordered something online.
on your couch
absolutely had to have this red t-shirt.
into your shopping cart.
that green pair of pants
pair of shoes — click!
assembled your order.
for a moment that
"submit order."
shows up on your doorstep.
like, wow, there's my goo.
how those items of inventory
that box in the warehouse?
it's that guy right there.
middle of that picture,
pick-pack worker
order fulfillments setting.
spend 60 or 70 percent of their day
יבלו 60 עד 70 אחוז מהיום שלהם
the warehouse.
as much as 5 or 10 miles
those items of inventory.
unproductive way to fill orders,
unfulfilling way to fill orders.
first bumped into this problem.
in '99, 2000, the dot com boom.
spectacular flame-out called Webvan.
millions of dollars with the notion that
מאות מליונים של דולרים עם ההנחה
grocery orders online.
that we couldn't do it cost effectively.
לעשות את זה בצורה שתכסה את העלויות.
that was very hard and very costly.
מאוד קשה ומאוד יקר.
ניסינו להרכיב 30 פריטי מלאי
to assemble 30 items of inventory
to deliver to the home.
it was costing us 30 dollars.
89¢ can of soup
pick and pack into that tote.
tried to deliver it to the home.
during my one year at Webvan,
all the material-handling providers
specifically to solve each base picking.
במיוחד לפתור כל איסוף בסיסי.
those three things in a box.
לשים את כל אלה בקופסה.
got to be a better way to do this.
חייבת להיות דרך טובה יותר לעשות את זה.
was set up to pump
goo to retail stores.
and about a year and a half later,
ובערך שנה וחצי מאוחר יותר,
It was still nagging at me.
היא עדיין הציקה לי.
thinking about it again.
on what I wanted as a pick worker,
במה שרציתי אני כעובד ליקוט,
how it should work.
on the problem.
I want to do is I want to put
הוא לשים
in this box right here.
my hand and — poof! —
בה אני מושיט את היד ופוף --
and I pack it into the order,
approach to solving the problem.
לפיתרון הבעיה.
is available to solve this problem?
איזו טכנולוגיה זמינה לפתרון הבעיה הזו?
and go, products can come and go.
מוצרים יכולים לבוא וללכת.
pick worker the center of the problem,
את פועל הליקוט מרכז הבעיה,
them as productive as possible.
אותם להכי יעלים שניתן.
arrive at this notion?
a brainstorming exercise,
that many of you use,
testing your ideas.
at the limits — infinity, zero.
challenged ourselves with the idea:
distribution center in China,
very low-cost market?
land is cheap.
an hour for direct labor
square-foot distribution center?"
led to ideas that said,
in the warehouse."
zero dollars per hour,
warehouse every morning at 8 a.m.,
pick up one item of inventory
you hold the Mountain Dew,
otherwise just stand there.
you guys talk amongst yourselves.
pick it, put it in the tote, away it goes."
could walk and talk on their own?
very powerful way
organize this warehouse.
labor isn't free,
versus awesome spectrum.
We'll put them on mobile shelving.
we'll move the inventory around.
then I'm sitting on my couch in 2008.
יושב על הספה שלי ב-2008.
Olympics, the opening ceremonies?
את טקס הפתיחה?
couch when I saw this.
the warehouse floor, the stadium floor.
המפעל, רצפת האיצטדיון.
actually relates to the idea
incredibly powerful, impressive digital art,
דיגיטלית חזקה ומרשימה להפליא,
I'm told,
coordination and communication.
I'll squat down.
some fabulous art.
power of emergence
start to talk with each other.
לדברים להתחיל לדבר אחד עם השני.
bit of the journey.
the practical reality of this idea?
למציאות הפרקטית של הרעיון?
that has about 10,000 different SKUs.
שיש לו בערך 10,000 פריטים שונים.
green pens, yellow Post-It Notes.
עטים ירוקים, פתקיות צהובות.
out to pick up the blue shelving pods.
קטן לאסוף את תאי האכסון הכחולים.
to the side of the building.
get to stay on the perimeter.
to pick up the shelves,
deliver them straight to the pick worker.
ולספק אותם ישירות לעובד האיסוף.
is completely different.
the warehouse, she gets to stay still
building can now come to her.
is very productive.
scan the bar code, pack it out.
לסרוק את הברקוד, לארוז.
you turn around,
ready to be picked and packed.
שמחכה להילקח ולהארז.
out all of the non-value added
התוספות חסרות הערך
wasting, waited time,
הבזבוז, בזבוז-הזמן,
high-fidelity way to pick these orders,
לקחת את ההזמנות הללו,
a laser, scan the UPC barcode,
סורק את הברקוד,
which box it needs to go into.
לאיזו קופסה הפריט שייך.
accurate and, it turns out,
ומסתבר
environment for these pick workers.
לפועלי הליקוט הללו.
the whole order.
not just a part of the order.
ולא רק חלקים מההזמנה.
in control of their environment.
על הסביבה שלהם.
of this approach
to be more productive.
pervasive this way of thinking
דרך החשיבה הזו
functions in the warehouse.
is doing inside of the DC
עושה בתוך המחסן
parallel processing engine.
cross-fertilization of ideas.
הפרייה הדדית של רעיונות.
and we're thinking about
ואנחנו חושבים על
supercomputer architectures.
לבצע פעולות בו זמנית.
the right side of the screen
ימין של המסך,
autonomous pick workers.
to leave and go to the bathroom,
וללכת לשירותים,
productivity of the other nine workers.
של 9 העובדים האחרים.
traditional method of using a conveyor.
המסורתית של שימוש בפס יצור.
passes the order to you,
לך את ההזמנה
and pass it downstream.
הלאה להמשך הפס.
for that serial process to work.
בשביל התהליך הסדרתי הזה.
way to think about the warehouse.
לחשוב על המחסן.
interesting in that we're tracking
of the products.
and adaptive algorithms
דינמיים ומותאים
of the warehouse.
the week leading up to Valentine's Day.
אולי השבוע שלפני יום אהבה.
moved to the front of the building
הועברו לקדמת הבניין
lot of orders in those pick stations.
and that candy, the leftover candy,
הסוכריות האלה, השאריות של הסוכריות,
back of the warehouse
zone on the thermal map there.
של זרימת החום שם.
approach using the parallel processing
של פעולות-מקבילות במפעל,
scale to ginormous.
להיות בקנה מידה עצום.
two pick stations, 20 pick stations,
20 תחנות ליקוט,
path planning algorithms
algorithms just work.
פשוט עובדים.
see that the inventory
שהמלאי עכשיו
perimeter of the building
של הבניין,
the pick stations were.
היו.
out for themselves.
בשביל עצמם.
just one final video
this comes to bear
day in the life of.
to move inventory along the highway
לשנע מלאים בדרך המהירה
into these pick stations.
לתחנות הליקוט הללו.
in each station,
בכל אחת מהתחנות,
across the highway
בדרך המהירה
get into a queuing system
מערכת שעובדת לפי תור
to the pick worker.
לפועל הליקוט.
adapt the speed of the pick workers.
להתאים את המהירות של פועל הליקוט.
and the slower pickers get few.
ואיטיים יקבלו פחות.
literally having that experience
חווה עכשיו בדיוק
The product jumps into it.
המוצר קופץ לידה.
she puts it in the bucket.
ושמה אותו בסל.
is kind of behind the scenes.
היא סוג של מאחורי הקלעים.
picking and packing portion of her job.
הליקוט והאריזה של עבודתה.
never has to leave her mat.
והיא לא צריכה לזוז מהתחנה שלה.
not only a more productive
לא רק דרך יעילה יותר
way to fill orders.
fulfilling way to fill orders.
מספקת לטפל בהזמנות.
that, though, is that workers
היא שהעובדים
buildings now compete
מתמודדים עכשיו
in the Kiva zone that day.
״קיווה״ בימים אלו.
them on testimonial videos
במכתבי המלצה מצולמים
day to play with their grandchildren,
יום העבודה לשחק עם נכדיהם,
Kiva zone is so stress-free
היא כל כך נטולת לחץ
my blood pressure medication."
התרופות נגד לחץ הדם שלי״
so they told us not to use that video.
אז אמרו לנו לא להשתמש בסרטון.
with today is the notion that
זה הרעיון
to think and walk
להתחיל לחשוב וללכת
processes and productivities can emerge.
מעניינים יכולים לצוץ.
you go to your front step
שתלכו למפתן הדלת
you just ordered online,
the goo is in there,
וה׳גו׳ יהיה שם,
as to whether a robot
האם רובוט
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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