25 Warehouse Pros and Business Leaders Reveal the Biggest Benefits of Warehouse Automation
It seems everyone is talking about warehouse automation these days, from concerns about the potential for robots and automation to take over once human-led processes to businesses that can’t wait to take advantage of the productivity gains promised by the latest automated technologies, there are many possible impacts of the rise of warehouse automation.
Obviously, the benefits companies can gain from warehouse automation are multi-fold. To find out precisely how companies stand to benefit most from the latest technologies, we reached out to a panel of business leaders and warehouse pros and asked them to answer this question:
“What’s the single biggest benefit to warehouse automation?”
Scott Amyx
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Scott Amyx is the author of “Strive: How Doing the Things Most Uncomfortable Leads to Success”, which has been endorsed by Tony Robbins, Forbes, Singularity University, Tribeca Film Festival and other influencers. He is a global thought leader and venture capitalist who has appeared on TV, TIME, Forbes, NYT, TechCrunch, CIO, Washington Post, Wired, Forrester, G20 report, and other major media.
“Warehouse automation falls under smart buildings and the Industrial Internet of Things…”
As cities, with higher penetration of the Internet of Things, there will be pressure from the building code side as well as from the builder and warehouse owner/operator for energy efficiency (IoT lights, meters, sensors), lower cost via automation (less humans), higher security surveillance (AI/ computer vision for real-time crime detection & escalation to police) and quantification the entire value chain for more granular optimization, efficiency and improvements.
In the mid- to long-term, warehouses will become almost entirely automated via various forms of robots, IoT and cognitive AI. In China, even something as complex as a shipping port is fully automated, fenced off to humans.
