Automation Fails

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

What the hell is a retirement celebration, at ups?

This is one of the few things that my center does right.

 

[old levi's]

My retirement celebration was 2 EAM's, left the building before the pcm, heavy day, and when I got back that night, the building was empty.

Clocked out, and went home.

 

[john chesney]

What the hell is a retirement celebration, at ups?

We had these back in the day. They left about the same time as respect,dignity,class,honor,honesty,integrity,character and are replaced by what you see today

 

[old levi's]

We had these back in the day. They left about the same time as respect,dignity,class,honor,honesty,integrity,character and are replaced by what you see today

so 97, right?

 

[john chesney]

so 97, right?

I think it was when we went public I can’t remember the year

 

[john chesney]

so 97, right?

I don’t think it happened because of strike. I could be wrong

 

[clean hairy]

Wait until you see Orion 2.0 and the turn by turn navigation.

I would not doubt it would navigate a driver to go the wrong way on a one way street.

 

[clean hairy]

What the hell is a retirement celebration, at ups?

Marty Peters for his 63 years, they had a party tray of cheese, and some other stuff.

 

[jaker]

My last day is 5/7 and the other driver who is retiring on the same day (6/22) finishes on 5/11. We are combining our last day (5/11) and retirement celebrations.

I hope to hell they don't ask me to say what I really want to say.

Well if is anything like you say here , it more then likely is you saying you are going management

 

[Wally]

Isn’t he the black guy who is in almost every movie?

Yes, Lawrence Fishburne.

 

[gorilla75jdw]

I'm trying to get a larger perspective on the company's attempts at introducing automation in hubs. At least in my building...

• We have three Rubus doors. I haven't seen them used in ages. Too many problems with it, I guess, unless there was some Union thing I'm not aware of.
• They brought in these "Clearpath" robotic irreg carts. If rumor is correct, one of them hit a worker, and they've all been collecting massive dust ever since.
• We have a giant robotic arm with suction cups that's supposed to unload pallets. As with Rubus, hasn't been used.
• We still actively use a gaylord dumper for smalls, but it's only as good as Amazon's ability to put just smalls in the gaylords.
• Our automatic sorters work most of the time. The tenders are the under-appreciated backbone of the entire operation.

Can we expect any improvement on these failures? Are these failures happening at other buildings as well?

I'm trying to get a larger perspective on the company's attempts at introducing automation in hubs. At least in my building...

• We have three Rubus doors. I haven't seen them used in ages. Too many problems with it, I guess, unless there was some Union thing I'm not aware of.
• They brought in these "Clearpath" robotic irreg carts. If rumor is correct, one of them hit a worker, and they've all been collecting massive dust ever since.
• We have a giant robotic arm with suction cups that's supposed to unload pallets. As with Rubus, hasn't been used.
• We still actively use a gaylord dumper for smalls, but it's only as good as Amazon's ability to put just smalls in the gaylords.
• Our automatic sorters work most of the time. The tenders are the under-appreciated backbone of the entire operation.

Can we expect any improvement on these failures? Are these failures happening at other buildings as well?

I'm trying to get a larger perspective on the company's attempts at introducing automation in hubs. At least in my building...

• We have three Rubus doors. I haven't seen them used in ages. Too many problems with it, I guess, unless there was some Union thing I'm not aware of.
• They brought in these "Clearpath" robotic irreg carts. If rumor is correct, one of them hit a worker, and they've all been collecting massive dust ever since.
• We have a giant robotic arm with suction cups that's supposed to unload pallets. As with Rubus, hasn't been used.
• We still actively use a gaylord dumper for smalls, but it's only as good as Amazon's ability to put just smalls in the gaylords.
• Our automatic sorters work most of the time. The tenders are the under-appreciated backbone of the entire operation.

Can we expect any improvement on these failures? Are these failures happening at other buildings as well?

I'm interested in what your calling the "clearpath" irreg mechanism . Is there anyway you could go more in depth , in detail on what it is ? , how it works? Maybe sneak a picture ? Anything descriptive would be appreciated, TIA.

 

[flatbread]

I'm interested in what your calling the "clearpath" irreg mechanism . Is there anyway you could go more in depth , in detail on what it is ? , how it works? Maybe sneak a picture ? Anything descriptive would be appreciated, TIA.

**I am not the photographer.**

 

[Indecisi0n]

Inside automation is coming. In fact it's already in use in most major hubs. Inside jobs look out. Hopefully Union puts language in contract to protect those jobs.

 

[polyp]

Oh, hey. We have those drinking fountains too. Is the red "replace filter" light blinking on yours as well?

Clearpath's website: Research Robotics Platforms - Clearpath Robotics

And an article about otto: Clearpath's OTTO Robot Can Autonomously Haul a Ton of Stuff

 

[eats packages]

Oh, hey. We have those drinking fountains too. Is the red "replace filter" light blinking on yours as well?

Clearpath's website: Research Robotics Platforms - Clearpath Robotics

And an article about otto: Clearpath's OTTO Robot Can Autonomously Haul a Ton of Stuff

None of the drinking faucets work here.
4 in a row and you would hope at least one would be working OK, wishful thinking.

 

[polyp]

Inside automation is coming. In fact it's already in use in most major hubs. Inside jobs look out. Hopefully Union puts language in contract to protect those jobs.

I don't expect my job to hang around until I'd be ready to retire. That said, we'll probably be hit by it later than other warehousing operations, since UPS has limited control over the parcels that customers put into the system. Amazon & co can change their box packing to work around the shortcomings in their automated systems. We, meanwhile, can't even get our accounts to use actual tape.

 

[PT Car Washer]

None of the drinking faucets work here.
4 in a row and you would hope at least one would be working OK, wishful thinking.

What about the ice machine?

 

[TearsInRain]

attach some brushes to the bottom of those things and we could cut out the cleaning crew too

 

[Wally]

What about the ice machine?

Check out the bacterial count in that ice...Yuk.

 

[oldngray]

Check out the bacterial count in that ice...Yuk.

adds flavor