UPS Velocity: Site Scales, Grows with Business

Watch the new UPS Velocity site scale right before your eyes in this new timelapse video!
This automated facility processes up to 350,000 units per day
Making it one of UPS’ largest and most technologically advanced order fulfillment centers.
One System, Two Solutions: Geek+ Shelf-to-Person PopPick and our original Shelf-to-Person System
make up
this sea of shelves and bots.
The project has 700 Shelf-to-Person robots, a number that will triple in the coming year.
And the system increases storage by 30% compared to UPS facilities without Geek+ technology.
The E-commerce industry is expected to grow by 11.9% by 2030.
Together, Geek+ and UPS Supply Chain Solutions are the blueprint for the future of e-commerce.
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[@turn-n-burn1421]

I just watched a different video in Louisville on this facility where a spokesperson said it's not the intent to have only robots do those jobs. Oh, yes it is. When UPS finally gets to that point, the Teamsters can simply eat it. No more negotiations.

[@MrGene1976]

this looks more like an Amazon, what's the point of storing the packages that need to go, am I missing something here ? 🤔

[@turn-n-burn1421]

@@MrGene1976 Well, although that's not what this is in any way; I wish UPS would do their own version of Amazon. They have every bit of the needed infrastructure. Basically, this can be faster than the way UPS does things. Normally, a trailer comes onto the property and they are unloaded as needed. IE decides all of this, then they are put on other trailers, also determined by IE. I don't think this as illustrated is living in reality, because all packages aren't alike, they aren't all packed alike, etc. But given the clean floor area, compared with the reality of every single UPS hub and center I've been in, this could be much more efficient.

[@turn-n-burn1421]

@@MrGene1976 One day in the not too distant future, UPS is going to tell them Teamsters to kick sand. The first step will be only highly trained maintenance employees in all the hubs, working on robots and the apparatus' that moves all these packages; they'll even actually load and unload trailers. Outside of the hubs, they'll still have human delivery drivers and tractor trailer drivers, but little by little if or as people accept friendly robots into their daily lives, they'll eventually take over those roles. And the last step, possibly, maybe sooner, are no humans anywhere except retired employees like me who collect a pension. AI will do all the computer work, all the scheduling, everything.

[@MrGene1976]

@@turn-n-burn1421 yeah, I've seen some self-driving yard trucks out there already at some other companies, I think Teamsters contract prohibits them for now, but who knows in the future. I need like 15 more years before I can retire, but still it's all going that way that you've described, so for the next generations future may be pretty dark...