Tech Enabled Dashboards, Automations and Use of Robotics and Drones
The systems layer: WMS, TMS, control towers and floor robotics.
What this theme covers
Every movement on a modern site is mirrored by a transaction somewhere. This theme makes that layer visible: the screens that run the floor, the integrations between them, and the automation and robotics that execute what the systems decide. The cohort sees the dashboard and the machine it is describing in the same hour.
On the floor
- ✦Control tower and live dashboard walls
- ✦WMS and TMS screens running against live transactions
- ✦Barcode, RFID and scan point infrastructure
- ✦Conveyors, AS/RS, AGV and AMR fleets in motion
- ✦Robotic picking and palletising cells
- ✦Drone-based stock counting and yard survey, where deployed
In the briefing
- What each system of record owns: ERP, WMS, TMS, OMS
- Integration points, and where data actually breaks
- The KPI tree sitting behind an operations dashboard
- Automation business case: throughput, payback and downtime
- Where robotics fits, and the volumes below which it does not
- Master data quality, and why a clean dashboard can still lie
What you leave with
Name the system behind any scan you see on a floor
Read an operations dashboard critically instead of accepting it
Frame an automation proposal in payback terms
Trails on this theme
Supply chain students with a technology or analytics focus, plus digital transformation and IT operations teams.
Automated warehouses, robotics enabled facilities and live control towers.
One-day site visit and briefing, scheduled with the institute as a batch.