helena konttinen - warehouse management ai proto
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HELENA KONTTINENAn intelligentish, state-aware warehouse management system
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A never-ending story: efficiency competition
uptime is nice, but how about in-action efficiency?
if any specific problem area can be isolated from the whole picture, it’s easier to focus on maximising the efficiency on solving a specific problem subset
Focus: logistics efficiency
more precisely: how to prepare for efficient truck loading, to increase the throughput (and thus, the value) of a warehouse - using Konecranes’ cranes
The idea: Hanoi’s TowersRoadblock: Hanoi is 2D, OTOH warehouses are 3D by design, because of stacks in grid
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Ramp up: more strategy!Solution(?): a look at chess strategies
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The design of Helena
focus on Separation of Concerns in Warehouse
Grid -> Stack -> Box Crane Helena-AI
a new UI to take advantage of AI
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Truck loading areaAI engine output
Factory feed row
Step-by-step buttons
Accident simulator
button
Vision: adaptive systems
several possibilities exist genetic programming (GA) hybrid/expert systems Fuzzy systems
ref. WarGames
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