Mick Mountz: What happens inside those massive warehouses?
Mick Mountz: ¿Qué pasa dentro de los grandes almacenes?
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
de un nuevo enfoque
inventory inside of a warehouse.
inventario dentro de un depósito.
pack and ship setting here.
recolectar, empacar, enviar.
hundreds of mobile robots,
cientos de robots móviles
of mobile robots,
Les hablaré de la solución.
And I'll get to the solution.
you ordered something online.
pidieron algo en línea.
on your couch
absolutely had to have this red t-shirt.
que comprarse esa camiseta roja.
into your shopping cart.
en su canasta de compras.
that green pair of pants
par de pantalones verdes
pair of shoes — click!
zapatos azules, clic.
assembled your order.
se detuvieron a pensar
for a moment that
"submit order."
shows up on your doorstep.
el paquete a su puerta.
like, wow, there's my goo.
ahí tengo mi revoltijo.
how those items of inventory
estos artículos del inventario
that box in the warehouse?
hacia la caja en el depósito?
it's that guy right there.
qué es ese tipo que está ahí.
middle of that picture,
pick-pack worker
"trabajador de empaque"
order fulfillments setting.
o de cumplimiento de pedidos.
spend 60 or 70 percent of their day
dedican de 60 % al 70 % de su día
the warehouse.
as much as 5 or 10 miles
de 7 km a más de 15 km
those items of inventory.
unproductive way to fill orders,
improductiva de cumplir pedidos,
unfulfilling way to fill orders.
insatisfactoria de cumplir pedidos.
first bumped into this problem.
con este problema por primera vez.
in '99, 2000, the dot com boom.
la era de la burbuja del punto com.
spectacular flame-out called Webvan.
compañía llamada Webvan.
de millones de dólares con la idea
millions of dollars with the notion that
grocery orders online.
por compras en línea.
that we couldn't do it cost effectively.
no podíamos tener costos eficientes.
that was very hard and very costly.
era difícil y muy costoso.
to assemble 30 items of inventory
reunir 30 artículos de inventario
to deliver to the home.
camioneta para entregar a domicilio.
it was costing us 30 dollars.
89¢ can of soup
de sopa de 89 centavos
pick and pack into that tote.
y empacarlo para su trasiego.
tried to deliver it to the home.
la entrega a domicilio.
during my one year at Webvan,
en mi primer año en Webvan,
all the material-handling providers
todos los distintos proveedores
specifically to solve each base picking.
diseñada para cada base de recolección.
those three things in a box.
poner esas 3 cosas en una caja.
got to be a better way to do this.
una mejor forma de hacer esto.
was set up to pump
está armado para mover
goo to retail stores.
and about a year and a half later,
como un año y medio después,
It was still nagging at me.
problema, me seguía molestando.
thinking about it again.
on what I wanted as a pick worker,
quiero como trabajador de empaque".
how it should work.
cómo debe funcionar...
on the problem.
I want to do is I want to put
lo que quiero es poner
in this box right here.
my hand and — poof! —
donde ponga mi mano y ¡puf!
and I pack it into the order,
y completo el pedido
approach to solving the problem.
el operador para solucionar el problema.
is available to solve this problem?
existe para solucionar este problema?"
and go, products can come and go.
vienen, los productos van y vienen.
pick worker the center of the problem,
empaque como el centro del problema
them as productive as possible.
tan productivos como sea posible.
arrive at this notion?
a brainstorming exercise,
ejercicio de lluvia de ideas,
that many of you use,
muchos de Uds. usan,
testing your ideas.
at the limits — infinity, zero.
al límite. Al infinito, cero...
challenged ourselves with the idea:
nos retamos con la idea:
un centro de distribución en China,
distribution center in China,
very low-cost market?
land is cheap.
es barata, el suelo es barato.
an hour for direct labor
la hora de trabajo directo
distribución de 93 000 m²?"
square-foot distribution center?"
led to ideas that said,
conduce a ideas como:
gente en el depósito".
in the warehouse."
zero dollars per hour,
cero dólares por hora,
warehouse every morning at 8 a.m.,
depósito cada mañana a las 8 horas,
pick up one item of inventory
recojan un artículo del inventario
barra de Cap'n Crunch,
you hold the Mountain Dew,
si no solo esperan ahí.
otherwise just stand there.
you guys talk amongst yourselves.
y les llamo, hablan entre Uds.
pick it, put it in the tote, away it goes."
lo trasiego y está en camino".
could walk and talk on their own?
pudieran caminar y hablar por su cuenta?
very powerful way
organize this warehouse.
labor isn't free,
de obra no es gratis,
versus awesome spectrum.
We'll put them on mobile shelving.
los pondremos en estanterías móviles.
we'll move the inventory around.
y moveremos el inventario.
then I'm sitting on my couch in 2008.
cuando sentado en mi sofá en 2008...
Olympics, the opening ceremonies?
de los JJ.OO. de Beijing?
couch when I saw this.
the warehouse floor, the stadium floor.
el piso del depósito, el piso del estadio.
actually relates to the idea
relacionado con la idea
incredibly powerful, impressive digital art,
increíblemente poderoso,
I'm told,
coordination and communication.
comunicación punto a punto.
I'll squat down.
some fabulous art.
power of emergence
start to talk with each other.
cosas empiecen a hablar entre sí.
bit of the journey.
the practical reality of this idea?
qué se convirtió en realidad práctica?
that has about 10,000 different SKUs.
unos 10 mil números de referencia.
green pens, yellow Post-It Notes.
plumas verdes y post-it amarillos.
out to pick up the blue shelving pods.
para recoger anaqueles azules
to the side of the building.
recolección permanecen en la periferia.
get to stay on the perimeter.
to pick up the shelves,
recolectar los anaqueles,
directamente al trabajador de empaque.
deliver them straight to the pick worker.
is completely different.
es completamente diferente.
the warehouse, she gets to stay still
permanecen quietos
recolección como ésta
building can now come to her.
puede ahora llegarles.
is very productive.
scan the bar code, pack it out.
escanea el código de barra, lo empaca.
you turn around,
ready to be picked and packed.
ser recolectado y empacado.
out all of the non-value added
de espera, perdido,
wasting, waited time,
sin valor agregado
high-fidelity way to pick these orders,
confiabilidad de recolección de pedidos,
a laser, scan the UPC barcode,
escanean el código electrónico
which box it needs to go into.
una luz a cuál caja debe ir.
accurate and, it turns out,
más preciso y resulta
environment for these pick workers.
interesante para estos trabajadores.
the whole order.
not just a part of the order.
y no solo una parte.
in control of their environment.
en control de su ambiente.
of this approach
de este enfoque
to be more productive.
pervasive this way of thinking
cómo se fue permeando
functions in the warehouse.
otras funciones del depósito.
is doing inside of the DC
dentro del centro de distribución
parallel processing engine.
de procesamiento paralelo masivo.
cross-fertilization of ideas.
fertilización cruzada de ideas.
and we're thinking about
y estamos pensando
supercomputer architectures.
de procesamiento en paralelo.
the right side of the screen
derecha de la pantalla
autonomous pick workers.
empaque autónomos independientes.
to leave and go to the bathroom,
necesita ir al baño,
productivity of the other nine workers.
de los otros 9 trabajadores.
traditional method of using a conveyor.
del uso de la banda transportadora.
passes the order to you,
and pass it downstream.
a la banda corriendo.
para que el proceso en serie funcione.
for that serial process to work.
way to think about the warehouse.
más robusta de concebir el depósito.
interesting in that we're tracking
porque estamos rastreando
of the products.
and adaptive algorithms
adaptativos y dinámicos
of the warehouse.
the week leading up to Valentine's Day.
previa al día de San Valentín.
moved to the front of the building
se ha movido al frente del edificio
lot of orders in those pick stations.
en las estaciones de recolección.
and that candy, the leftover candy,
San Valentín y el dulce que quedó,
la parte posterior del depósito
back of the warehouse
zone on the thermal map there.
en el mapa térmico aquí.
que usa el procesamiento en paralelo
approach using the parallel processing
scale to ginormous.
escalar a lo 'hipergigante'.
two pick stations, 20 pick stations,
de recolección, 20 estaciones
path planning algorithms
de planeación de ruta
algorithms just work.
de inventario funcionan.
see that the inventory
el perímetro del edificio,
perimeter of the building
las estaciones de recolección.
the pick stations were.
out for themselves.
just one final video
this comes to bear
day in the life of.
del trabajador de empaque
to move inventory along the highway
el inventario por la carretera
las estaciones de recolección.
into these pick stations.
in each station,
across the highway
por toda la carretera
get into a queuing system
en una sistema de cola
to the pick worker.
al trabajador de empaque.
adapt the speed of the pick workers.
de los trabajadores.
and the slower pickers get few.
anaqueles y los más lentos, menos.
literally having that experience
experimenta cabalmente
The product jumps into it.
she puts it in the bucket.
is kind of behind the scenes.
está tras bambalinas.
picking and packing portion of her job.
la parte de recolección y empaque.
ni tiene que dejar su puesto.
never has to leave her mat.
not only a more productive
no solo es más productivo
way to fill orders.
fulfilling way to fill orders.
más satisfactoria de cumplir pedidos.
that, though, is that workers
porque los trabajadores
buildings now compete
edificios ahora compiten
in the Kiva zone that day.
trabajar en la zona KIVA.
them on testimonial videos
en videos testimoniales
day to play with their grandchildren,
del día para jugar son sus nietos
Kiva zone is so stress-free
"En la zona KIVA no hay estrés
my blood pressure medication."
la medicina para la presión".
so they told us not to use that video.
que nos pidió que no usáramos ese video.
with today is the notion that
to think and walk
empiecen a pensar y caminar
processes and productivities can emerge.
procesos interesantes y productivos.
you go to your front step
esa caja de lo que pidieron en línea,
you just ordered online,
the goo is in there,
as to whether a robot
and packing of that order.
y empaque de ese pedido.
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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