Near Winners:
"Testing was going well…until the robot joined the union."
Kevin Catallo
Honeywell International
“I know it looks like cool technology, but Jerry is actually still inside the box.”
Heather Loisel
JDA - The Supply Chain Company
“They’ve named it Nessie.”
Jennifer Makanoff
Dick's Sporting Goods
Other Good Ones:
"They tell me that this “thought picking” may not work if the driver has a problem on his mind."
Tim Bates
"It's definitely an improvement- our first prototype had already boxed-up the driver by this stage."
Brian Hayden
IT Tralee
"Top secret? We ripped off the idea from the villain in Spiderman 2."
Nick Otis
ParTech
“I’m not sure the design engineers expected such an enthusiastic reaction from the material handling equipment”
Larry E. Davis, CSCP
Yamaha Corporation of America
“I hear they’ve got that thing programmed to fix a pretty decent martini on 3rd shift.”
Dave Nagel
The Clorox Co.
"The Robot is a Class M-3 Model B9. We got the idea from Lost in Space re-runs”.
Nic Wood
USANA Health Sciences (NZ) Corporation
"Next version, this machine should be able to drive itself."
Jack Villecco
Penske Truck Leasing Co.
"Last week’s test fork lift driver was picked and shipped to Delaware."
William J. Hippe
enVista
“It works fine, but the lift drivers keep turning to stone…”
Kevin Harris
Compliance Networks
"As of now, our picking cost would go way down, but our RMA's would jump 50%."
David Counts
Graybar Corporate Purchasing
"It can mis-pick items 5 times faster than we currently do."
Dave Wagner
Blair Companies
"Funny…I saw a fork truck EXACTLY like that one at COSTCO just last month!"
Brian K. Frank
Booz|Allen|Hamilton
"If it works here, we are going to market a smaller household version for Mom’s.”
Carol Bahr
Chelsea Milling Company
"And for an extra $50,000 you can get this attachment that insures a FIFO rotation."
Thomas G. Fornadel
Penske Logistics
"It's European."
Bruce Moser
Arrow
"This must be what the consultant meant by being more flexible in our picking process."
George Crawford
Graybar
"It's top secret because it uses nanobots. Giant nanobots."
Marly M. C. Hazen
CTSI-Global
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