Chapter 1605 Reaching the Peak
William himself was really shocked by the automation and information operation process of Taobao Logistics.
As a well-informed prince from a developed country, he had never seen such an advanced warehousing and logistics sorting system, so much so that William kept exclaiming at the scene, and even praised him in front of Li Mu: "Mr. Li, Taobao's warehousing and logistics has subverted my inherent impression of warehousing and logistics. I really did not expect that Taobao has such great achievements in automation and informatization."
Li Mu said with a smile: "This is not a big achievement, but a necessary process for industrial upgrading. With the development of future technology, automation and informatization will be valued in any industry and become the key to industrial upgrading."
William asked: "Mr. Li, according to your ideas, in the future, all industries can be upgraded to automation and informatization 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 but ask: "What do you think the next stage of Taobao's warehousing and logistics automation development can reach?"
Li Mu said with a smile: "What we are pursuing is to hand over as much work as possible to advanced machines instead of manual labor. You see, in the future, our in and out warehouse will definitely develop into full automation. After the goods are transported in, from sorting to returning All types of warehousing use automated equipment, and after receiving an order, from picking up to sorting to outgoing, all should be developed into automation.”
Speaking of this, Li Mu said with a serious face: "In the future, our warehouse center will be larger than this, even so large that it can hold an entire Boeing 747 production line, and with the continuous development of automation, our efficiency will continue to grow. The demand for manpower will continue to decline.”
Afterwards, Li Mu took William to the transportation center supporting the warehousing 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 filled with containers and container trucks.
In the innermost part of the factory building, there is a working platform with a width of more than ten meters, a length of more than 100 meters and a height of about one meter. This working platform is directly connected to the sorting center, and a large number of packaged packages are transported to this working platform by forklift trucks. .
Under the one-meter-high operation platform, one after another is full of container trucks of a unified standard. The tail of the container and the operation platform are perfectly docked, and the heights of the two are almost the same, which provides great convenience for loading and unloading. condition.
This is the importance of uniform standards,
For the entire trunk line transportation of Muye Technology, the tractors are all imported, and the heights of the container trailers are all the same, ensuring that their vehicles can seamlessly connect with the operation platform when they go to any sorting center.
Here, dozens of container trucks were parked side by side at one time. Almost every minute, a truck was loaded and then drove out. Immediately afterwards, a truck drove in from outside to continue loading and unloading.
William was stunned and exclaimed: "Mr. Li, the throughput here is really too high, there are almost constant cars coming in and out."
Li Mu nodded and said, "Yanjing's sorting center not only covers the entire Yanjing's cargo handling, but is also responsible for most of North China. It is the hub of most of North China, so the cargo throughput will be larger."
William nodded and watched intently. Hundreds of workers were busy on the entire operation platform, and dozens of forklifts and trailers were shuttled back and forth, but everything seemed orderly and there was no sense of chaos.
What surprised William even more was that the fastest car took less than ten minutes from entering, unloading, to loading and leaving, which was extremely fast.
He couldn't help asking Li Mu: "Mr. Li, how did the car turn around so quickly?"
Li Mu said with a smile: "This is thanks to our information management system. Our warehouse entry and exit system specially designed for trucks is designed and operated in a highly rigorous way of railway dispatching."
As he said that, Li Mu pointed to the lanes under the operation platform that were drawn every two meters or more, and said, "Look, every truck parking space is like a railroad track, and these parking spaces have special numbers, just like a railway station platform. ."
"These vehicles you see are equipped with radio frequency equipment, which records information about their vehicles, such as who the driver is, what the vehicle transports, where it came from, which goods to pick up, and where it is going."
"In this way, when they enter the base, their cargo arrangements have been sent to the operation platform, and the central dispatcher will arrange for him to wait in line outside and arrange the parking space he wants to enter in advance."
"For example, in this car with a tail number of 366, when he was queuing outside, the dispatcher had already allocated the 10th parking space for him, and then notified the worker in charge of the 10th parking space, telling him how many packages the car had to unload, and told him What packages are going to be loaded in his car and leave, the workers will prepare the packages he is going to take away in advance."
"After the car in front of the 10th parking lot leaves, the dispatcher will notify 366 to enter the 10th parking lot. After he comes in, the worker will immediately unload the goods in his car, and then load the goods prepared in advance, and the verification is completed. After that, notify the dispatcher, the dispatcher will arrange 366 to leave the venue, and then notify the next car to enter the station.”
"This high-efficiency load, the fastest, can be over in ten minutes."
William exclaimed: "My God, the arrangement is so tight, no wonder Taobao Logistics' delivery efficiency is so high."
Li Mu said with a smile: "In the next stage, we are testing the large-span gantry crane equipment in the factory. In the future, there may be seven or eight sets of gantry crane equipment running at the same time in this factory building, and each gantry crane is responsible for several lanes. 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 together with the container, and then the pre-packed goods that it wants to transport are directly loaded on the frame together with the container for transport. Go, in this case, the efficiency will be further improved.”
William sighed: "This system is really smart, and the improvement in efficiency is also amazing."
Li Mu nodded and said with a smile: "At that time, our front yard will use gantry cranes to quickly load and unload trucks, and the back yard will use automatic sorting and packing equipment to quickly pack the sorted packages and load them into designated containers in advance. The front and rear fields use circular self-propelled tracks to realize the circular operation of containers, loading, unloading, loading, unloading, and continuous circulation. The containers are on this circular track, just like the blood in our body, constantly transporting oxygen to the body , and transport carbon dioxide out of the body at the same time, think about it, how much will our efficiency increase at that time?"
William secretly stuttered and said, "In this way, the logistics efficiency is almost at its peak."
Li Mu shook his head with a smile, and said, "It's still a long way to go. In the future, we must first reform all the links that can be reformed. Even the transportation and delivery links must undergo an automation revolution."
William said: "If that's the case, wouldn't it be necessary to develop unmanned technology?"
Li Mu said with a smile: "Unmanned driving will definitely be developed in the future, and will continue to innovate and improve until it can replace humans on the road."
William couldn't help but ask: "Will Muye Technology or Taobao.com develop autonomous driving technology for automatic transportation and automatic delivery in the future?"
Li Mu said: "This is not necessarily true, 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, Muye Technology does not pursue To control the entire industry chain."
After speaking, Li Mu explained: "In the future, advanced Internet products should be a combination of many products and technologies, just like current home computers, buying processors from Intel, graphics cards from Nvidia, and Samsung. Buying memory chips and then buying an operating system from Microsoft is precisely because of this model, so I think that there will be many companies developing driverless technology in the future. If Makino Technology is also included, then we will try our best to do our best. , if Makino Technology is not included, then we will buy the best cost-effective one from them, and then use other technologies and products from other companies to achieve our autonomous driving needs."
After listening, William nodded again and again and said, "I really hope to see Muye Technology's self-driving trucks shuttle across the entire land of China as soon as possible."
Li Mu smiled and said, "Don't worry, this day will come, and I will definitely invite you to visit."
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The news that Li Mu took William to visit Taobao soon spread to all walks of life through the official media channels of Muye Technology.
When the relevant interview information of Taobao Logistics was published on the Internet, it sparked heated discussions among netizens.
Although most domestic netizens have been in contact with Taobao, they never know how Taobao operates behind it. After seeing these videos and pictures, they understand that Taobao has developed to such an advanced level.
No wonder Taobao can achieve the most incredible ultra-high timeliness on the market. It turns out that all this is supported by powerful software and hardware at the same time.
Western media were also shocked by the information released by Muye Technology.
In their eyes, although China's Internet has sprung up, its overall industrial base is still weak compared with that of western developed 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 who quickly screen and include simple equipment, while the transportation and delivery link is a postman riding a bicycle. to the recipient.
However, they never thought that Taobao Logistics has advanced to such an extent... https://./3_3245/