Ever wondered how Amazon deals with a huge amount of items in its warehouses efficiently?
Video of how the Kiva Robots fulfill orders
Via Reddit
and also an interesting IAMA (Ask me Anything) from someone who works at Amazon's largest fulfillment centre: (Note, you'll need to Ctrl+F [deleted] to find OP's posts.)
Interesting notes:
- He walks on average 15 miles (24KM) per day. He picks 1400 items per shift. 10.5 hour shift.
- He damages 5 items per shift. Average 500 people working per shift = lots of damaged stuff. Damaged stuff goes to Amazon Warehouse Deals
- A/C in warehouse. I visited one of Star Trac's facilities in Melbourne recently which had no heating or cooling in there. Not somewhere I'd like to be in a heatwave.
- Very small attrition rate. 1 or 2 people fired/quit per 2 months
Anyone have experience in working in a big warehouse? Anything like Amazon?
very interesting!