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

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Vision: adaptive systems

several possibilities exist genetic programming (GA) hybrid/expert systems Fuzzy systems

ref. WarGames

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