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<blockquote data-quote="Bagels" data-source="post: 1089680" data-attributes="member: 43436"><p>There's plenty of skepticism over Industrial Perception's claims. And yes, I believe it'll take 40 or more years for such technology to mature to become cost-effective on a wide-scale basis. RPS Ground introduced fully automated facilities well before many of UPS's youngest employees were born, and the technology <em>still</em> isn't cost-efficient for UPS to incorporate on a wide-scale basis. And sometimes technology that works in modeled simulation just doesn't pan out. Northwest Airlines found this out the hard way ten years ago when it attempted to move toward an automated boarding process -- simulations that worked perfectly in the lab absolutely tanked in action. Ten years later, Delta Air Lines (which merged with Northwest awhile ago) is re-launching the automation... with similar results.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bagels, post: 1089680, member: 43436"] There's plenty of skepticism over Industrial Perception's claims. And yes, I believe it'll take 40 or more years for such technology to mature to become cost-effective on a wide-scale basis. RPS Ground introduced fully automated facilities well before many of UPS's youngest employees were born, and the technology [I]still[/I] isn't cost-efficient for UPS to incorporate on a wide-scale basis. And sometimes technology that works in modeled simulation just doesn't pan out. Northwest Airlines found this out the hard way ten years ago when it attempted to move toward an automated boarding process -- simulations that worked perfectly in the lab absolutely tanked in action. Ten years later, Delta Air Lines (which merged with Northwest awhile ago) is re-launching the automation... with similar results. [/QUOTE]
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