William himself was indeed shocked by the automated and information-based operation processes of Taobao Logistics.
As a well-informed prince from a developed country, he had never seen such an advanced warehousing and logistics sorting system. William kept exclaiming at the scene and even praised Li Mu in front of him: "Mr. Li, Taobao's warehousing and logistics have subverted my inherent impression of warehousing and logistics. I never expected that Taobao would have such great achievements in automation and informatization."
Li Mu smiled and said: "This is not a big achievement, it is just a necessary process for industrial upgrading. With the development of science and technology in the future, automation and informatization will be valued in every industry and become the key to industrial upgrading."
William asked: "Mr. Li, according to your thinking, all industries in the future can actually undergo automation and informatization upgrades 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 height do you think Taobao can reach in the next stage of its warehousing and logistics automation development?"
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 work. You see, in the future, our warehousing and warehousing will definitely develop into fully automated. After the goods are transported in, everything from sorting to return Automated equipment is used for all types of warehousing, and after receiving the order, everything from picking up to sorting to shipping out must also be automated."
Speaking of this, Li Mu said seriously: "In the future, our warehousing center will be larger than this, even big enough to house an entire Boeing 747 production line. And with the continuous development of automation, our efficiency will continue to increase." Improvement and manpower requirements will continue to decrease.”
Later, 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. The huge space is almost filled with containers and container transport vehicles.
In the innermost part of the factory, there is an operation platform that is more than ten meters wide, over a hundred meters long, and about one meter high. This operation platform is directly connected to the sorting center. A large number of packaged packages are transported to this operation platform by forklifts. .
Under the one-meter-high working platform, container trucks of the same standard are parked one after another. The tail of the container is perfectly connected to the working platform. The height of the two is almost the same, which provides great convenience for loading and unloading. condition.
This is the importance of unified standards. Throughout Makino Technology’s main line transportation, all tractors are imported, and the heights of container trailers are all the same, ensuring that your vehicles can seamlessly connect with the operating platform at any sorting center.
Here, dozens of container trucks are parked side by side at one time. Almost every minute, a truck is loaded and driven out. Immediately afterwards, a truck drives in from outside to continue loading and unloading.
William was dumbfounded 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: "The sorting center in Yanjing not only covers the cargo throughput of the entire Yanjing, but is also responsible for more than half of North China. It is the hub for most of North China, so the cargo throughput will be larger."
William nodded while watching intently. There were hundreds of workers busy on the entire working platform, and dozens of forklifts and trailers shuttled back and forth, but everything seemed orderly and without any sense of chaos.
What surprised William even more was that it took less than ten minutes for a car to come in, unload, and leave the site. It was so fast.
He couldn't help but ask Li Mu: "Mr. Li, how can the car turnover speed be so fast?"
Li Mu smiled and said: "This is due to our information management system. Our entry and exit system specially designed for trucks is designed and operated in a highly rigorous way of railway dispatching."
As he spoke, Li Mu pointed to the lanes marked every two meters below the work platform and said, "Look, every truck parking space is like a railroad track. These parking spaces have special numbers, just like a train platform." .”
"The cars you see are all equipped with radio frequency equipment, and the equipment records information about their vehicles, such as who the driver is, what the car transports, where it comes from, what goods it needs to pick up, and where it goes."
"In this way, when they enter the base, their cargo arrangements have been sent to the operation platform. The central dispatch will arrange for them to wait in line outside and arrange the parking space for him to enter in advance."
"For example, when this car with the tail number 366 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, informing him how many packages this car would unload, and informing him The workers will prepare the packages he wants to take away in advance."
"After the car in front of parking space No. 10 leaves, the dispatcher will notify 366 to enter parking space No. 10. After he comes in, the workers will immediately unload the goods in his car, and then load the goods prepared in advance, and the verification is completed Afterwards, notify the dispatcher, and the dispatcher will arrange for 366 to leave, and then notify the next vehicle to enter the station."
"This kind of efficient loading, the fastest, can be completed within ten minutes."
William exclaimed: "Oh my God, the arrangements are so perfect. No wonder Taobao Logistics' delivery efficiency is so high."
Li Mu smiled and said: "In the next stage, we are testing the long-span gantry crane equipment in the factory. In the future, there may be seven or eight sets of gantry crane equipment operating in this factory at the same time. Each set of gantry cranes is responsible for several lanes. After these container trucks enter the site, There is no need to wait for loading and unloading. After the truck comes in, the gantry crane immediately picks up the goods it transported together with the container, and then loads the pre-boxed goods to be transported directly on the frame together with the container. Let’s go, in this case, the efficiency will be further improved.”
William sighed: "This system is really smart, and the improvement in efficiency is amazing."
Li Mu nodded and said with a smile: "At that time, we will use gantry cranes to quickly load and unload trucks in the front yard, and use automatic sorting and packaging equipment in the back yard to quickly pack the sorted packages and load them into designated containers in advance. The front and rear yards use circular self-propelled tracks to realize the circular movement of containers, loading, unloading, loading, unloading, in a continuous cycle. The containers on this circular movement track are like the blood in our bodies, constantly transporting oxygen to the body. , and at the same time transport carbon dioxide outside the body, think about it, how much more efficient will we be by then?"
William secretly gasped and said: "In this way, the logistics efficiency has almost reached its peak."
Li Mu smiled and shook his head and said: "The peak is still far away. In the future, we must first reform all the links that can be reformed. 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 smiled and said: "Autonomous driving will definitely be developed in the future, and it will be constantly innovated and improved until it can replace people on the road."
William couldn't help but ask: "Will Makino Technology or Taobao develop autonomous driving technology for autonomous transportation and autonomous 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, Makino Technology does not pursue We need to control the entire industrial chain.”
After that, Li Mu explained: "Future advanced Internet products should be a fusion of multiple products and technologies, just like today's home computers, where you buy processors from Intel, graphics cards from NVIDIA, and graphics cards from Samsung. Buy memory chips and then buy an operating system from Microsoft. Because of this model, I think there will be many companies developing driverless technology in the future. If this includes Makino Technology, then we will try our best to do our best. , if Makino Technology is not included, then we will buy the one with the best price/performance ratio from them, and then match it with other technologies and products from other companies to achieve our autonomous driving needs."
After hearing this, William nodded repeatedly and said, "I really hope to see Makino Technology's self-driving trucks traveling across the entire land of China as soon as possible."
Li Mu smiled and said: "Don't worry, this day will come. I will definitely invite you to visit when the time comes."
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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 Makino Technology.
When the relevant interview information about Taobao Logistics was posted online, it sparked heated discussions among netizens.
Although most domestic netizens have been exposed to Taobao, they have never known how Taobao operates behind the scenes. Only after seeing these video and picture introductions did they understand that Taobao has developed to such an advanced stage.
No wonder Taobao is able to achieve the most incredible and ultra-high timeliness on the market. It turns out that all of this is supported by powerful software and hardware at the same time.
Western media were also shocked by the information released by Makino Technology.
In their eyes, although China's Internet has suddenly emerged, their overall industrial base is still very weak compared with Western developed countries, and their level of social development is also far behind;
In their inherent impression, the sorting center of Huaxia Logistics should be a large group of people gathered around simple equipment to quickly sort out packages, while the transportation and delivery process involves postmen riding bicycles climbing mountains and wading through rivers to deliver packages bit by bit. into the hands of the recipient.
However, they never expected that Taobao Logistics would be so advanced...
(End of chapter)