siliconindia | | December 201719DEVELOPING A SMART WAREHOUSE USING DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGYBy Hemant Jog, Vice President, NRB BearingsNRB Bearings, established in 1965 at Mumbai, is one of the market leaders with dominant market share in Needle Roller Bearings & Cylindrical Roller Bearings segment of organized Indian market.CXO INSIGHTSW ith the business being forced to be competitive, it is im-portant to look at all the areas of business to improve. Tra-ditionally ware house has been a neglected area but is be-ing looked at in a focussed way to improve the profitability of the organisation.Today's warehouse managers have a wide choice of technologies to choose from in order that they are able to reduce costs, improve efficiency and streamline the operations. Ware-houses must ensure that the goods, material and products flow ef-fortlessly by optimising their warehouse operations through use of such technologies.Let us look at some of the options that we have : With the advent of M2M (machine-to-machine) evolving into more sophisticated systems combined with WMS (Ware House Man-agement system), it is very easy to control all the equipment within the warehouse which helps a great deal in order fulfilment.There are light displays available which can direct warehouse operators to product location with information on the product and the quantity to be chosen. This technology can also plan, control and analyse volumes of orders picked. This system obviously increases the productivity of the warehouse with the drastic reduction in errors. This system can be easily custom designed and can combine durability needed in different warehouse environments with the smart intelligence needed to run changing and diverse workflows with transparency.Robots are increasingly being used for move-ment, storage and sorting of warehouse inventory. A Hemant Jog
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