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Our current Locus One Warehouse Execution Platform allows us to induct totes/cartons to bots. With Vector, one of the key advantages is that induction and deduction of carts can be decoupled from human activity. That drives the queueing and induction and deduction times in the mission models down to zero, which drives down the bot count.
If a person (or machine) can induct totes to carts, and then carts can be automatically linked to bots when the bot hitches to the cart, then activities of people and bots can be be decoupled.
Mathematically (and emotionally) this allows the bots to never stop moving for the induction / deduction steps. It also enables the bots to naturally create situations where work is buffered - by the induction person/system at the beginning of the process, and after drop off.
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Problem/opportunity trying to be solved
Bot counts are driven up (past the point of ROI for customers) when it is required to have a bot connected to a cart before the totes/cartons can be inducted onto the carts. |
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Quantify the problem/opportunity
It's equal to the market size of Vectors +Lift that uses carts. |
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What is the root cause of the problem/opportunity
Our current Locus One Warehouse Execution Platform requires induction of totes/cartons to bots. |
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| Customer need date | Jul 1, 2022 |
| Report Tag | Contingent to Sale |
Not sure if the "urgent request" field was used properly here. It's urgent because there are several deals in the pipeline that need this capability for the projects to be economically viable. Cardinal Health-Mississauga is the one that came up today.