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The Top Dozen Supply Chain Innovations of All-Time

Operations and Supply Chain Management

The Kiva Robotic Picking System: The idea for the orange AGV-like robots that bring inventory to order pickers was first conceived in 2003 by CEO Mick Mountz, and with the help of some MIT professors Kiva brought the technology to market less than two-years later. Later develops the concept of incentive systems and piece-rate pay plans.

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Industry 3.X and TPM deciphered

KEPLER Consulting

This remains very important because from the beginning of the digital data creation until 2003, there were 5 exabytes of information created and now the same amount of information is created every two days. Washington, DC: U.S. Smart manufacturing for the future. Internet of things. In Real-time systems (pp. Springer US.