A warehouse manager has robot vendor demos open on one monitor. On the floor below, a picker is working from a paper pick list, checking off lines by hand, and keying confirmations into a terminal in a batch at the end of the shift, whenever there’s a free minute.
The gap between those two pictures is usually where the real return is sitting, and it costs a fraction of what’s on the other monitor.
That picker is often already carrying a phone, a handheld, or a screen mounted on the cart. It’s just running one narrow app, or nothing connected at all. [Read more…] about The Cheapest Warehouse Automation is Already in the Picker’s Hand