Mick Mountz: What happens inside those massive warehouses?
Mick Mountz: Što se događa u masivnim skladištima?
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
potpuno novi pristup
inventory inside of a warehouse.
predmetima unutar skladišta.
pack and ship setting here.
pakiranju i dostavi.
hundreds of mobile robots,
pokretnih robota,
of mobile robots,
And I'll get to the solution.
Doći ću do rješenja.
you ordered something online.
naručili preko mreže.
on your couch
absolutely had to have this red t-shirt.
ovu crvenu majicu.
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.
na vratima.
like, wow, there's my goo.
svoje stvari.
how those items of inventory
kako ti predmeti
that box in the warehouse?
u skladištu?
it's that guy right there.
ovaj tip ravno ovdje.
middle of that picture,
pick-pack worker
order fulfillments setting.
spend 60 or 70 percent of their day
svog dana
the warehouse.
as much as 5 or 10 miles
those items of inventory.
unproductive way to fill orders,
za izvršavanje narudžbi,
unfulfilling way to fill orders.
način za izvršavanje narudžbi.
first bumped into this problem.
na ovaj problem.
in '99, 2000, the dot com boom.
2000.-e.
spectacular flame-out called Webvan.
izgorjelo, Webvan.
millions of dollars with the notion that
na ideji
grocery orders online.
that we couldn't do it cost effectively.
tako da se isplati.
that was very hard and very costly.
nešto jako teško i skupo.
to assemble 30 items of inventory
30 proizvoda s popisa
to deliver to the home.
kako bismo ih dostavili naručitelju.
it was costing us 30 dollars.
89¢ can of soup
pick and pack into that tote.
1 dolar.
tried to deliver it to the home.
pokušali dostaviti.
during my one year at Webvan,
u Webvanu-u,
all the material-handling providers
s radnicima u skladištu
specifically to solve each base picking.
ubiranje stvari.
those three things in a box.
svih u kutiju.
got to be a better way to do this.
bolji način.
was set up to pump
gurati palete
goo to retail stores.
and about a year and a half later,
i pol kasnije,
It was still nagging at me.
problemu, smetao mi je.
thinking about it again.
on what I wanted as a pick worker,
što sam želio kao skladištar,
how it should work.
trebalo izgledati.
on the problem.
I want to do is I want to put
staviti
in this box right here.
kutiju ovdje.
my hand and — poof! —
ruku i - puf! -
and I pack it into the order,
ja ga pakiram,
approach to solving the problem.
jako usmjeren na operatora.
is available to solve this problem?
je dostupna za takvo rješenje?
and go, products can come and go.
odlaze, kao i proizvodi.
pick worker the center of the problem,
u centar problema,
them as productive as possible.
produktivniji.
arrive at this notion?
a brainstorming exercise,
that many of you use,
testing your ideas.
at the limits — infinity, zero.
od beskonačnosti do nula.
challenged ourselves with the idea:
distribution center in China,
centar u Kini,
very low-cost market?
land is cheap.
jeftino.
an hour for direct labor
nula dolara
square-foot distribution center?"
od milijun kvadrata?"
led to ideas that said,
in the warehouse."
zero dollars per hour,
nula dolara po satu,
warehouse every morning at 8 a.m.,
jutro u 8,
pick up one item of inventory
predmet s popisa
you hold the Mountain Dew,
ti držiš Mountain Dew,
otherwise just stand there.
mičete.
you guys talk amongst yourselves.
vi pričate međusobno.
pick it, put it in the tote, away it goes."
stavlja u košaricu i odlazi."
could walk and talk on their own?
very powerful way
organize this warehouse.
skladište.
labor isn't free,
versus awesome spectrum.
We'll put them on mobile shelving.
we'll move the inventory around.
pokretati robu gdje je potrebno.
then I'm sitting on my couch in 2008.
godine 2008.
Olympics, the opening ceremonies?
Olimpijskih igara u Pekingu?
couch when I saw this.
the warehouse floor, the stadium floor.
skladišta, pod stadiona.
actually relates to the idea
incredibly powerful, impressive digital art,
digitalnu umjetnost,
I'm told,
coordination and communication.
I'll squat down.
some fabulous art.
power of emergence
start to talk with each other.
da međusobno razgovaraju.
bit of the journey.
the practical reality of this idea?
realnost ove ideje?
that has about 10,000 different SKUs.
različitih proizvoda.
green pens, yellow Post-It Notes.
olovkama, žutim post-it-ima.
out to pick up the blue shelving pods.
da pokupe plave police.
to the side of the building.
get to stay on the perimeter.
to pick up the shelves,
police,
deliver them straight to the pick worker.
is completely different.
the warehouse, she gets to stay still
može ostati na mjestu
building can now come to her.
is very productive.
scan the bar code, pack it out.
skenirati bar kod, pakirati.
you turn around,
ready to be picked and packed.
koji čeka na pakiranje.
out all of the non-value added
vrijednost,
wasting, waited time,
high-fidelity way to pick these orders,
skupljanje narudžbi,
a laser, scan the UPC barcode,
skenirate bar kod,
which box it needs to go into.
kutiju artikl ide.
accurate and, it turns out,
environment for these pick workers.
the whole order.
not just a part of the order.
dio narudžbe.
in control of their environment.
svoje okruženje.
of this approach
to be more productive.
pervasive this way of thinking
ovaj način razmišljanja
functions in the warehouse.
u skladištu.
is doing inside of the DC
parallel processing engine.
motor s paralelnim procesiranjem.
cross-fertilization of ideas.
and we're thinking about
supercomputer architectures.
procesiranjem.
the right side of the screen
autonomous pick workers.
to leave and go to the bathroom,
na zahod,
productivity of the other nine workers.
ostalih 9 radnika.
traditional method of using a conveyor.
serijskim pristupom.
passes the order to you,
vama,
and pass it downstream.
for that serial process to work.
serijski proces.
way to think about the warehouse.
o skladištu.
interesting in that we're tracking
pratimo
of the products.
and adaptive algorithms
algoritme
of the warehouse.
the week leading up to Valentine's Day.
prije Valentinova.
moved to the front of the building
u prednji dio zgrade
lot of orders in those pick stations.
radnika.
and that candy, the leftover candy,
ostaci slatkiša
back of the warehouse
skladišta
zone on the thermal map there.
mapi.
approach using the parallel processing
procesiranja
scale to ginormous.
velike.
two pick stations, 20 pick stations,
path planning algorithms
planira put
algorithms just work.
funkcioniraju.
see that the inventory
cijeli inventar
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
micati inventar kroz glavni put
into these pick stations.
in each station,
across the highway
put
get into a queuing system
to the pick worker.
adapt the speed of the pick workers.
brzinu radnika.
and the slower pickers get few.
sporiji dobivaju manje.
literally having that experience
iskustvo
The product jumps into it.
she puts it in the bucket.
is kind of behind the scenes.
picking and packing portion of her job.
koji uključuje uzimanje i pakiranje.
never has to leave her mat.
svoju poziciju.
not only a more productive
way to fill orders.
narudžbi.
fulfilling way to fill orders.
that, though, is that workers
što se radnici
buildings now compete
in the Kiva zone that day.
them on testimonial videos
svjedočanstva snimimo
day to play with their grandchildren,
na kraju dana,
Kiva zone is so stress-free
Kiva zona toliko bez stresa
my blood pressure medication."
lijekove za krvni tlak.
so they told us not to use that video.
pa su nam rekli da ne koristimo taj video.
with today is the notion that
to think and walk
razmišljaju i hodaju
processes and productivities can emerge.
you go to your front step
izađete na prag
you just ordered online,
naručili,
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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