Mick Mountz: What happens inside those massive warehouses?
Mik Maunc (Mick Mountz): Šta se dešava u ogromnim 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
inventory inside of a warehouse.
pack and ship setting here.
hundreds of mobile robots,
of mobile robots,
And I'll get to the solution.
I čućete odgovor.
you ordered something online.
on your couch
absolutely had to have this red t-shirt.
da kupite crvenu majicu.
into your shopping cart.
u kolica za kupovinu.
that green pair of pants
pair of shoes — click!
assembled your order.
for a moment that
"submit order."
shows up on your doorstep.
na pragu vas čeka paket.
like, wow, there's my goo.
how those items of inventory
that box in the warehouse?
it's that guy right there.
to zbog onog tipa tamo.
middle of that picture,
pick-pack worker
order fulfillments setting.
i šalje robu za porudžbine.
spend 60 or 70 percent of their day
60-70% radnog vremena
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.
naleteo na ovaj problem.
in '99, 2000, the dot com boom.
2000, vrhunac internet firmi.
spectacular flame-out called Webvan.
millions of dollars with the notion that
miliona dolara sa namerom
grocery orders online.
naručene preko interneta.
that we couldn't do it cost effectively.
nismo mogli da postignemo zaradu.
that was very hard and very costly.
zapravo veoma teška i skupa.
to assemble 30 items of inventory
da 30 komada robe
to deliver to the home.
pa ih dostavimo kombijem.
it was costing us 30 dollars.
89¢ can of soup
pick and pack into that tote.
košta jedan dolar.
tried to deliver it to the home.
during my one year at Webvan,
all the material-handling providers
u prenosu robe shvatio
specifically to solve each base picking.
za sortiranje različitih proizvoda.
those three things in a box.
da svi budu u istoj kutiji.
got to be a better way to do this.
može raditi na bolji način.
was set up to pump
goo to retail stores.
and about a year and a half later,
a ja sam godinu i po kasnije
It was still nagging at me.
i dalje mi nije dao mira.
thinking about it again.
on what I wanted as a pick worker,
kad bih radio na razvrstavanju.
how it should work.
on the problem.
I want to do is I want to put
in this box right here.
stavim u ovu kutiju.
my hand and — poof! —
and I pack it into the order,
approach to solving the problem.
is available to solve this problem?
može da reši taj problem?
and go, products can come and go.
se menjaju, proizvodi se menjaju.
pick worker the center of the problem,
možemo da stavimo u centar stvari,
them as productive as possible.
rade što produktivnije.
arrive at this notion?
a brainstorming exercise,
that many of you use,
testing your ideas.
at the limits — infinity, zero.
vrednosti ideja - beskonačno, nula.
challenged ourselves with the idea:
distribution center in China,
otpremni centar u Kini,
very low-cost market?
land is cheap.
i zemljište jeftini.
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.,
u 8 dođu do skladišta,
pick up one item of inventory
you hold the Mountain Dew,
vi energetsko piće,
otherwise just stand there.
u suprotnom stojite.
you guys talk amongst yourselves.
i pozovem, vi javite jedni drugima.
pick it, put it in the tote, away it goes."
uzmem, stavim u torbu i šaljem.
could walk and talk on their own?
da se kreću i sporazumevaju.
very powerful way
organize this warehouse.
moglo da se organizuje.
labor isn't free,
versus awesome spectrum.
nije praktično.
We'll put them on mobile shelving.
proizvode na pokretne police.
we'll move the inventory around.
then I'm sitting on my couch in 2008.
i 2008. sedim na trosedu.
Olympics, the opening ceremonies?
Olimpijskih Igara u Pekingu?
couch when I saw this.
sa troseda kad sam video.
the warehouse floor, the stadium floor.
u skladište, na stadion.
actually relates to the idea
ima veze sa tom idejom,
incredibly powerful, impressive digital art,
i impresivnu digitalnu umetnost,
I'm told,
coordination and communication.
komunikacijom i koordinacijom.
I'll squat down.
some fabulous art.
power of emergence
start to talk with each other.
da međusobno komuniciraju.
bit of the journey.
the practical reality of this idea?
that has about 10,000 different SKUs.
i slanje sa oko 10.000 polica.
green pens, yellow Post-It Notes.
žuti samolepljivi listići.
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,
deliver them straight to the pick worker.
nose do radnika.
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.
skenirate bar-kod i pakujete.
you turn around,
ready to be picked and packed.
out all of the non-value added
wasting, waited time,
high-fidelity way to pick these orders,
način razvrstavanja,
a laser, scan the UPC barcode,
which box it needs to go into.
accurate and, it turns out,
preciznije, a ispostavilo se
environment for these pick workers.
the whole order.
not just a part of the order.
i plavo, ne samo deo.
in control of their environment.
malo veći stepen kontrole.
of this approach
to be more productive.
pervasive this way of thinking
ovaj način razmišljanja
functions in the warehouse.
is doing inside of the DC
parallel processing engine.
za paralelno izračunavanje.
cross-fertilization of ideas.
and we're thinking about
supercomputer architectures.
the right side of the screen
autonomous pick workers.
radnika u razvrstavanju.
to leave and go to the bathroom,
reši da ode do toaleta,
productivity of the other nine workers.
ostalih devet radnika.
traditional method of using a conveyor.
sistemom pokretne trake.
passes the order to you,
and pass it downstream.
for that serial process to work.
svi moraju biti na svom mestu.
way to think about the warehouse.
je mnogo otporniji.
interesting in that we're tracking
popularnost proozvoda, otkrili smo
of the products.
and adaptive algorithms
of the warehouse.
the week leading up to Valentine's Day.
u nedelji pred Dan zaljubljenih.
moved to the front of the building
prešli u prednji deo skladišta
lot of orders in those pick stations.
and that candy, the leftover candy,
Dana zaljubljenih, preostali slatkiši
back of the warehouse
zone on the thermal map there.
approach using the parallel processing
ovakvog paralelnog procesa
scale to ginormous.
two pick stations, 20 pick stations,
path planning algorithms
algoritmi
algorithms just work.
uvek rade.
see that the inventory
da su police sa robom
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
putuje centralnom trakom
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.
možemo da prilagodimo radniku.
and the slower pickers get few.
a sporiji manje.
literally having that experience
The product jumps into it.
she puts it in the bucket.
is kind of behind the scenes.
je skriven od pogleda.
picking and packing portion of her job.
na razvrstavanje i pakovanje.
never has to leave her mat.
napuštanja radnog mesta.
not only a more productive
way to fill orders.
fulfilling way to fill orders.
osećaju ispunjenije.
that, though, is that workers
buildings now compete
in the Kiva zone that day.
them on testimonial videos
day to play with their grandchildren,
za igru sa unucima.
Kiva zone is so stress-free
Kiva zona toliko opuštena
my blood pressure medication."
so they told us not to use that video.
pa ne smemo da vam pokažemo.
with today is the notion that
to think and walk
zanimljive i produktivne
processes and productivities can emerge.
da razmišljaju i da se kreću.
you go to your front step
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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