{"id":6178,"date":"2012-09-29T09:00:14","date_gmt":"2012-09-29T13:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=6178"},"modified":"2012-09-29T03:16:29","modified_gmt":"2012-09-29T07:16:29","slug":"packing-online-deliveries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/packing-online-deliveries\/","title":{"rendered":"Packing Online Deliveries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/092912_0707_PackingOnli1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"422\" \/><\/p>\n<p>How do companies such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/?_encoding=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;tag=centives-20\">Amazon<\/a> manage to get you your products in just two days? Marcus Wohlsen reported:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Most distribution centers are still run by humans who go and pick your products for you from shelves.<\/li>\n<li>But there is a move towards automated robots. One type, that go to the shelf and bring the product back, can fill 1,000 orders in an hour.<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Amazon instead has invested in robots that lift the shelves themselves and then brings them over to workers who are guided by lasers to find the exact product to pack.<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>The robots that pick the shelves learn over time which shelves get used more often and keep them closer to the front, meaning that the process gets faster with experience.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the conditions in the factories, and why the quest for speed has become so important over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/business\/2012\/09\/warehouse-robot-battle\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/business\/2012\/09\/warehouse-robot-battle\/\">Wired<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do companies such as Amazon manage to get you your products in just two days? Marcus Wohlsen reported: Most distribution centers are still run by humans who go and pick your products for you from shelves. But there is a move towards automated robots. One type, that go to the shelf and bring the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/092912_0707_PackingOnli1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6178"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6183,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6178\/revisions\/6183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}