Just as we went from trains to cars in mass transit, we are moving from trains to pod in Mag Lev. As Google moves us closer to Mag Lev with the driverless cars, here is a warehouse management company that has automated the pick and pack. Having run warehouses, there are some delighted aspects.
Don't send the picker to the shelves, send the shelves to the picker. The fetch pod goes and gets a rack that has an item an order wants, and brings it to the packer.
Although not mentioned, there are no SKUs. Unthinkable! But someone thought it. The inventory is spread all over the warehouse, with goodies of all sorts on one rack. RFID, GPS etc.
Whole lotta traffic to be dealt with, all computer controlled. This is a great test case for mag lev, having controls ever improved on 2 MPH pods, we can work up from there.
The fetch pod goes and gets a rack that has an item an order wants, and brings it to the packer.
We have vast sums dedicated to State provision of roads. After blowing $200 million on studies, Oregon/Washington have canned a plan for another bridge across the Columbia River. Instead of $200 million bridges to know where, just blow the $200 million and forget the bridge. Seattle has spent over a billion dollars on a 24 foot hole in the ground. Ka-ching!
Reflect at how Amazon can now deploy warehouses all over the world without having to worry about cross-cultural concerns.
If $15 an hour minimum wage is coming, then eliminating humans is economical. Amazon owns the tech and will sell it everywhere, and expand its commercial fulfillment division, to the detriment of minimum wage and entry level folks everywhere. As distribution becomes more centralized, control of goods gets easier.
At the same time, those associated with the State continue to direct resources to campaign contributors who earn $200 million to talk a few years and draw pictures about a bridge. Small business is starved of profits as taxes are mulcted to fund re-election campaigns. Markets are distorted as the range of goods and services in demand by the 1% are called forth, they of a false economy.
News is some 320,000 Fed employees owe $3.3 billion up 2.6% from last year. I was looking for this figure because my informal study says whole lotta people experienced tax hikes this year, but not a peep from Republicans. Fed employees are actually better are compliance than the general population with 3.2% delinquency v 8.7% for the general population. (Within the govt, the range of which agencies have what delinquency rates is telling.)
What is odd that they pay taxes at all. Tax collection is expensive, and Fed employees are paid out of taxes. Why not just pay them a net and make their jobs tax exempt?
All of this State nonsense militates against progress, indeed, we are surely too far gone to correct. The problem is lending credit at usury, in which there is no rational limit. There will be an irrational denouement, because that which cannot go on eventually stops. Crash. $200 million dollar no bridge? Who cares? Great grandkids will pay! But when it goes down, we'll need to remember all of these positive efforts and build on those.
Update:
I know people think my assertion all of these super-successful dot.coms are USA intel ops is a little out there, but here...
Sheeesh... another update...
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-05-22/ibms-eps-target-unhelpful-amid-cloud-computing-challenges
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
Don't send the picker to the shelves, send the shelves to the picker. The fetch pod goes and gets a rack that has an item an order wants, and brings it to the packer.
Although not mentioned, there are no SKUs. Unthinkable! But someone thought it. The inventory is spread all over the warehouse, with goodies of all sorts on one rack. RFID, GPS etc.
Whole lotta traffic to be dealt with, all computer controlled. This is a great test case for mag lev, having controls ever improved on 2 MPH pods, we can work up from there.
The fetch pod goes and gets a rack that has an item an order wants, and brings it to the packer.
We have vast sums dedicated to State provision of roads. After blowing $200 million on studies, Oregon/Washington have canned a plan for another bridge across the Columbia River. Instead of $200 million bridges to know where, just blow the $200 million and forget the bridge. Seattle has spent over a billion dollars on a 24 foot hole in the ground. Ka-ching!
Reflect at how Amazon can now deploy warehouses all over the world without having to worry about cross-cultural concerns.
If $15 an hour minimum wage is coming, then eliminating humans is economical. Amazon owns the tech and will sell it everywhere, and expand its commercial fulfillment division, to the detriment of minimum wage and entry level folks everywhere. As distribution becomes more centralized, control of goods gets easier.
At the same time, those associated with the State continue to direct resources to campaign contributors who earn $200 million to talk a few years and draw pictures about a bridge. Small business is starved of profits as taxes are mulcted to fund re-election campaigns. Markets are distorted as the range of goods and services in demand by the 1% are called forth, they of a false economy.
News is some 320,000 Fed employees owe $3.3 billion up 2.6% from last year. I was looking for this figure because my informal study says whole lotta people experienced tax hikes this year, but not a peep from Republicans. Fed employees are actually better are compliance than the general population with 3.2% delinquency v 8.7% for the general population. (Within the govt, the range of which agencies have what delinquency rates is telling.)
What is odd that they pay taxes at all. Tax collection is expensive, and Fed employees are paid out of taxes. Why not just pay them a net and make their jobs tax exempt?
All of this State nonsense militates against progress, indeed, we are surely too far gone to correct. The problem is lending credit at usury, in which there is no rational limit. There will be an irrational denouement, because that which cannot go on eventually stops. Crash. $200 million dollar no bridge? Who cares? Great grandkids will pay! But when it goes down, we'll need to remember all of these positive efforts and build on those.
Update:
I know people think my assertion all of these super-successful dot.coms are USA intel ops is a little out there, but here...
"Headquartered in the small tech hub of Burnaby, on Canada's west coast, D-Wave has raised upwards of $100m in venture capital from the likes of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and In-Q-Tel, the venture capital arm of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)."http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-27264552
Sheeesh... another update...
"On Feb. 14, 2013, the CIA awarded the contract to Amazon.com (AMZN). The e-commerce company, a pioneer in offering cloud computing services to corporate customers from Nokia (NOK) to Pfizer (PFE), had persuaded the spymasters that its public cloud could be replicated within the CIA’s walls. Amazon had been bleeding IBM for years—its rent-a-server-with-your-credit-card model was a direct threat to IBM’s IT outsourcing business—but this was different. Amazon beat IBM for a plum contract on something like its home turf, and it hadn’t done so simply by undercutting IBM on price. IBM learned that its bid was more than a third cheaper than Amazon’s and officially protested the CIA decision."
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-05-22/ibms-eps-target-unhelpful-amid-cloud-computing-challenges
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
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