Rebirth in a Perfect Era

William himself was really shocked by Taobao's automated, information-based operation process.

As a knowledgeable prince of a developed country, he had never seen such an advanced warehousing and logistics sorting system, so that William kept exclaiming on the spot, and even praised Li Mu in front of him: "Mr. Li, Taobao's warehousing and logistics has subverted my inherent impression of warehousing and logistics. I really did not expect that Taobao had such great achievements in automation and informatization. "

Li Mu laughed: "This is not a big achievement, it is only a necessary process for industrial upgrading. With the development of future technology, automation and information technology will be valued in any industry and become the key to industrial upgrading."

William asked: "Mr. Li, according to your thinking, all industries in the future can actually be upgraded with automation and informationization like Taobao's warehousing and logistics?"

Li Mu nodded: "Of course, this is the trend of future social and industrial development."

William couldn't help asking: "In the next stage of Taobao's development of warehousing and logistics automation, what height do you think can be reached?"

Li Mu laughed: "What we are pursuing is to complete as much work as possible with advanced machines instead of manual work. You see, in the future, our warehouse will definitely develop into full automation. After the goods are transported in, from sorting to returning All sorts of warehouses use automated equipment, and after receiving orders, from picking up to sorting to unloading, they must all be automated. "

Having said that, Li Mu said earnestly: "In the future, our storage center will be larger than this, even large enough to house an entire Boeing 747 production line, and with the continuous development of automation, our efficiency will continue As demand rises, so will human demand. "

Subsequently, Li Mu took William to the transportation center supporting this warehouse and sorting center.

The sight of the transportation center shocked William even more.

Here, there is a giant-frame factory building the size of a large passenger aircraft hangar, but there is no equipment in the factory building, and the huge space is almost full of containers and container trucks.

In the innermost part of the factory building, there is an operating platform that is more than ten meters wide, over one hundred meters long, and about one meter high. This operating platform is directly connected to the sorting center. A large number of packaged packages are transported to this operating platform by forklifts. .

Below the one-meter-high operating platform, one container truck after another has been parked with a uniform standard. The rear end of the container is perfectly docked with the operating platform. The two are almost the same height, providing great convenience for loading and unloading. condition.

This is the importance of a unified system standard. The entire Makino technology's main line transportation is imported, and the height of the container trailer is all the same. This ensures that any vehicle going to any sorting center can seamlessly connect with the operating platform.

Here, dozens of container trucks were parked side by side at one time. Almost every minute, the trucks were loaded and then driven out. Immediately afterwards, a car drove in from outside to continue loading and unloading.

William was stunned and exclaimed, "Mr. Li, the throughput here is really too great. There are cars coming in and out almost constantly."

Li Mu nodded and said, "Yanjing's sorting center not only covers the entire Yanjing's cargo handling, but also is responsible for more than half of North China. It is a hub of more than half of North China, so the cargo throughput will be larger."

William nodded and watched intently. Hundreds of workers were busy on the entire working platform, dozens of forklifts and trailers were shuttled back and forth, but everything seemed orderly, without the slightest confusion.

What made William even more surprised was that the fastest time for a car to come in, unload, and load out was less than ten minutes, which was fast.

He couldn't help but ask Li Mu: "Mr. Li, how can the car turn around so fast?"

Li Mu laughed: "This is thanks to our information management system. Our set of in-and-out warehouse systems specifically designed for trucks is designed and operated in a highly rigorous way like railway dispatching."

Speaking, Li Mu pointed at the lanes that were drawn every two meters below the operating platform and said, "Look, every truck parking space is like a railroad track. These parking spaces are specially numbered, like train station platforms. . "

"These vehicles you see are equipped with radio frequency equipment. The equipment records information about their vehicles, such as who the driver is, what the vehicle transported, where it came from, what goods to pick up, and where to go."

"In this way, when they enter the base, their cargo arrangements have been sent to the operating platform, the central dispatcher will arrange for him to wait in line outside, and arrange the parking spaces he will enter in advance."

"Like the car with the last number 366, when he was queuing outside, the dispatcher had allocated him the 10th parking space, and then notified the worker in charge of the 10th parking space, told him how many parcels the car was going to unload, and informed What parcels will be loaded in his car, and workers will prepare the parcels he will take away in advance. "

"After waiting for the 10th parking space to leave, the dispatcher will notify 366 to enter the 10th parking space. After he enters, the worker will immediately unload the goods in his car and then load the prepared goods in advance and check the completion. Later, the dispatcher will be notified, and the dispatcher will arrange for 366 to leave and then notify the next car to enter the station. "

"This efficient loading, the fastest, can end in ten minutes."

William exclaimed: "Oh my god, so tightly arranged, no wonder Taobao Logistics' delivery efficiency can be so high."

Li Mu laughed: "In the next stage, we are testing large-span gantry cranes in the plant. In the future, there may be seven or eight sets of gantry cranes in operation in this plant. Each gantry crane is responsible for several lanes. After these container trucks enter the yard, There is no need to wait for loading and unloading. After the car comes in, the gantry crane immediately picks up the goods it transported along with the container, and then loads the goods that it is going to pack in advance and directly load the container with the container. If you go, the efficiency will be further improved. "

William lamented: "This system is really too smart, and the improvement in efficiency is amazing."

Li Mu nodded and smiled: "By that time, our front yard used gantry cranes to quickly load and unload trucks, and our back yard used automatic sorting and packing equipment to quickly pack the sorted packages and load them into the designated containers in advance. The front and rear fields use circular self-tracks to realize the circular operation of the container. Loading, unloading, loading, and unloading are continuously circulated. The container on this circular track is like blood in our human body, which constantly transports oxygen into the body. And at the same time transport carbon dioxide out of the body, think about it, how much more efficient will we be at that time? "

William said quietly, "This way, logistics efficiency is almost at its peak."

Li Mu shook his head with a smile and said, "It is still far from reaching the peak. In the future, we must first reform all the links that can be reformed, and even the transportation and delivery links must be automated."

William said: "If that's the case, wouldn't it be necessary to develop driverless technology?"

Li Mu laughed: "Unmanned driving will definitely be developed in the future, and it will continue to innovate and improve until it can replace people on the road."

William couldn't help but ask, "Makino Technology or Taobao.com will develop autonomous driving technology for automatic transportation and automatic delivery in the future?"

Li Mu said, "This is not necessarily, but one thing is certain. The high-tech industry is a huge industrial chain. No company can form an independent ecology and closed loop in this industrial chain. Therefore, Makino Technology does not pursue We need to control the entire industry chain. "

Speaking, Li Mu explained: "In the future, advanced Internet products should be the integrator of a combination of products and technologies, just like today's home computers, processors from Intel, graphics cards from Nvidia, and Samsung Buy memory chips and then buy an operating system from Microsoft. Because of this model, I think that there will be many companies to develop driverless technology in the future. If this also includes Makino Technology, we will try our best to do our best. If we do not include Makino Technology, then we will buy one of them with the best cost performance, and then match other technologies and products from other families to achieve our autonomous driving needs. "

After hearing this, William nodded again and again, saying, "I really hope to see Makino's self-driving trucks shuttle across the whole land of China."

Li Mu laughed: "Be assured that there will be this day, I will definitely invite you to visit at that time."

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The news that Li Mu took William to visit Taobao quickly spread to all walks of life through the official media channels of Makino Technology.

After the relevant interview information of Taobao Logistics was published on the Internet ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~, it caused a heated discussion among netizens.

Although most domestic netizens have contacted Taobao, they have never known how Taobao operates behind it. After seeing the introduction of these videos and pictures, they realized that Taobao had developed to such an advanced level.

No wonder Taobao can achieve the most incredible timeliness in the market. It turns out that all of this is supported by powerful software and hardware.

Western media was also stunned by the messages released by Makino Technology.

In their eyes, despite the emergence of the Chinese Internet, their overall industrial base is still weak compared to developed western countries, and the level of social development is far behind.

In their inherent impression, the sorting center of Huaxia Logistics should be a large group of people quickly screening around the simple equipment, and the transportation and delivery process is a postman riding a bicycle climbing the mountain and wading, and delivering the package a little To the recipient.

However, they never thought that Taobao Logistics was so advanced ... https: //./3_3245/