Mick Mountz: What happens inside those massive warehouses?
Mick Mountz: O que acontece dentro desses depósitos gigantescos?
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
nova e revolucionária abordagem
inventory inside of a warehouse.
em um armazém.
de coleta, embalagem e envio aqui.
pack and ship setting here.
hundreds of mobile robots,
de robôs móveis,
of mobile robots,
E eu vou chegar à solução.
And I'll get to the solution.
you ordered something online.
compraram algo online.
on your couch
absolutely had to have this red t-shirt.
precisavam daquela camiseta vermelha.
no seu carrinho de compras.
into your shopping cart.
that green pair of pants
azuis — click!
pair of shoes — click!
assembled your order.
for a moment that
"submit order."
shows up on your doorstep.
aparece na sua porta.
like, wow, there's my goo.
uau, são meus trecos.
how those items of inventory
como esses itens em estoque
that box in the warehouse?
para dentro de uma caixa no depósito?
it's that guy right there.
é aquele cara ali.
middle of that picture,
pick-pack worker
order fulfillments setting.
ou despacho de pedidos.
spend 60 or 70 percent of their day
passam 60 ou 70% de seu dia
the warehouse.
as much as 5 or 10 miles
algo entre 8 e 16 km
those items of inventory.
unproductive way to fill orders,
de atender a pedidos,
unfulfilling way to fill orders.
insatisfatória de atendimento.
first bumped into this problem.
deparei-me com esse problema.
de São Francisco em '99/2000,
in '99, 2000, the dot com boom.
spectacular flame-out called Webvan.
fabulosamente espetacular chamado Webvan.
milhões de dólares com a noção
millions of dollars with the notion that
grocery orders online.
compras de mercado online.
that we couldn't do it cost effectively.
não poder operar a um custo razoável,
that was very hard and very costly.
trabalhoso e de alto custo.
to assemble 30 items of inventory
empacotar 30 itens de estoque
to deliver to the home.
para entregá-las em domicílio.
it was costing us 30 dollars.
custava 30 dólares.
89¢ can of soup
lata de sopa de 89 centavos
pick and pack into that tote.
e colocá-la naquela sacola.
tried to deliver it to the home.
entregá-la em casa.
during my one year at Webvan,
all the material-handling providers
fornecedores de manuseio de material
specifically to solve each base picking.
para cada tipo de coleta.
those three things in a box.
esses três itens em uma caixa.
uma forma melhor de fazer isso.
got to be a better way to do this.
eram ajustados para carregar
was set up to pump
goo to retail stores.
para lojas de varejo.
and about a year and a half later,
cerca de um ano e meio depois,
It was still nagging at me.
problema; ele ainda me importunava.
thinking about it again.
on what I wanted as a pick worker,
que eu iria querer se fosse um embalador,
how it should work.
como deveria funcionar.
on the problem.
I want to do is I want to put
in this box right here.
nessa caixa aqui.
que eu estenda minha mão e — puf! —
my hand and — poof! —
and I pack it into the order,
e eu o coloco no pedido,
approach to solving the problem.
no operador para resolver o problema.
is available to solve this problem?
está disponível para resolver o problema?
and go, products can come and go.
ir e vir, produtos podem ir e vir.
pick worker the center of the problem,
embalador no centro do problema,
them as productive as possible.
torná-lo o mais produtivo possível.
arrive at this notion?
a brainstorming exercise,
execício de "brainstorming",
that many of you use,
muitos de vocês usam.
testing your ideas.
em branco, é claro,
at the limits — infinity, zero.
até os limites — infinito, zero.
challenged ourselves with the idea:
desafiamos com a ideia:
um centro de distribuição na China
distribution center in China,
very low-cost market?
muito, muito baixo?
land is cheap.
barata, o terreno é barato."
a hora de mão de obra direta
an hour for direct labor
de distribuição gigantesco?"
square-foot distribution center?"
led to ideas that said,
in the warehouse."
zero dollars per hour,
warehouse every morning at 8 a.m.,
ao depósito toda manhã às 8:00,
pick up one item of inventory
você, um "Mountain Dew",
you hold the Mountain Dew,
otherwise just stand there.
senão só espere aí.
vocês falem entre si.
you guys talk amongst yourselves.
pick it, put it in the tote, away it goes."
pega, coloca na sacola e vai embora."
could walk and talk on their own?
andar e falar sozinhos?
very powerful way
organize this warehouse.
labor isn't free,
versus awesome spectrum.
versus o incrível.
vamos usar prateleiras móveis.
We'll put them on mobile shelving.
we'll move the inventory around.
mover o estoque por aí".
then I'm sitting on my couch in 2008.
eu estava sentado no sofá em 2008.
Olympics, the opening ceremonies?
Pequim, a cerimônia de abertura?
couch when I saw this.
quando eu vi isso.
the warehouse floor, the stadium floor.
no depósito, o estádio.
actually relates to the idea
tem a ver com a ideia de que esses caras
incrivelmente poderosa e imponente,
incredibly powerful, impressive digital art,
I'm told,
coordination and communication.
comunicação ponto-a-ponto.
I'll squat down.
some fabulous art.
power of emergence
que surge nos sistemas
start to talk with each other.
comecem a falar entre si.
bit of the journey.
fragmento da viagem.
the practical reality of this idea?
realidade prática dessa ideia?
that has about 10,000 different SKUs.
e despacho com cerca de 10 mil itens.
green pens, yellow Post-It Notes.
canetas verdes, Post-It amarelos.
out to pick up the blue shelving pods.
para pegar as prateleiras azuis.
to the side of the building.
get to stay on the perimeter.
agora ficam no perímetro
to pick up the shelves,
pegar as prateleiras,
deliver them straight to the pick worker.
diretamente ao separador.
é totalmente diferente.
is completely different.
the warehouse, she gets to stay still
ela pode ficar parada
building can now come to her.
pode agora vir até ela.
is very productive.
scan the bar code, pack it out.
ler o código de barras, empacotar.
you turn around,
ready to be picked and packed.
pronto pra ser pego e embalado.
out all of the non-value added
todo o tempo sem valor agregado
wasting, waited time,
high-fidelity way to pick these orders,
alta-fidelidade de separar pedidos,
a laser, scan the UPC barcode,
escaneia o código de barras
which box it needs to go into.
qual caixa o item deve ir.
accurate and, it turns out,
e, dá para notar,
environment for these pick workers.
interessante para esses separadores.
the whole order.
e não só uma parte do pedido.
not just a part of the order.
in control of their environment.
mais no controle do seu ambiente.
of this approach
dessa abordagem
to be more productive.
pervasive this way of thinking
como se estenderia esse pensamento
functions in the warehouse.
torna o Centro de Distribuição
is doing inside of the DC
parallel processing engine.
de processamento paralelo.
cross-fertilization of ideas.
uma realimentação de ideias.
and we're thinking about
supercomputer architectures.
de processamento paralelo.
the right side of the screen
direito da tela
autonomous pick workers.
independentes e autônomos.
to leave and go to the bathroom,
decide ir ao banheiro,
productivity of the other nine workers.
dos outros nove trabalhadores.
traditional method of using a conveyor.
tradicional de usar uma esteira.
passes the order to you,
um pedido para você,
and pass it downstream.
para que o processo serial funcione.
for that serial process to work.
way to think about the warehouse.
de pensar sobre o depósito.
interesting in that we're tracking
é que nós acompanhamos
of the products.
and adaptive algorithms
dinâmicos e adaptativos
of the warehouse.
the week leading up to Valentine's Day.
semana antes do dia dos namorados.
moved to the front of the building
para a frente do prédio
lot of orders in those pick stations.
muitos pedidos nas estações.
and that candy, the leftover candy,
todos os doces, os que sobraram,
back of the warehouse
zone on the thermal map there.
desse mapa térmico.
approach using the parallel processing
de processamento paralelo
scale to ginormous.
de forma gigantesca.
two pick stations, 20 pick stations,
200 estações de separação,
path planning algorithms
algorithms just work.
simplesmente funcionam.
see that the inventory
perimeter of the building
the pick stations were.
estações de coleta estão.
out for themselves.
just one final video
this comes to bear
day in the life of.
to move inventory along the highway
mover o estoque pelas vias
into these pick stations.
as estações de separação.
in each station,
across the highway
get into a queuing system
to the pick worker.
adaptar-nos à velocidade dos separadores.
adapt the speed of the pick workers.
and the slower pickers get few.
e os mais lentos recebem menos.
literally having that experience
literalmente tendo a experiência
The product jumps into it.
she puts it in the bucket.
is kind of behind the scenes.
acontece nos bastidores.
picking and packing portion of her job.
em pegar e embalar.
never has to leave her mat.
nunca tem que deixar seu canto.
not only a more productive
isso não só é mais produtivo
way to fill orders.
fulfilling way to fill orders.
mais satisfatória de atendê-los.
that, though, is that workers
assim, é porque os trabalhadores
buildings now compete
depósitos agora competem
in the Kiva zone that day.
na área da Kiva naquele dia.
them on testimonial videos
day to play with their grandchildren,
brincar com os netos depois do trabalho
Kiva zone is so stress-free
Kiva tem tão pouco estresse
my blood pressure medication."
meu remédio para a pressão."
so they told us not to use that video.
então pediram para não usarmos o vídeo.
with today is the notion that
to think and walk
começarem a pensar, andar
processes and productivities can emerge.
e produtividades interessantes afloram.
you go to your front step
que forem à porta
you just ordered online,
que compraram 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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