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From the Ted Talk by Mick Mountz: What happens inside those massive warehouses?

Unscramble the Blue Letters


So of course, now what became the practical reality of this idea? Here is a warehouse. It's a pick, pack and ship center that has about 10,000 different SKUs. We'll call them red pens, geren pens, yellow Post-It Notes. We send the little orange robots out to pick up the blue shelving pods. And we dveelir them to the side of the building. So all the pick workers now get to stay on the perimeter. And the game here is to pick up the sehelvs, take them down the highway and deliver them siahgrtt to the pick wroekr. This pick worker's life is completely different. Rather than wandering around the warehouse, she gets to stay still in a pick station like this and every product in the bdnuliig can now come to her.

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So of course, now what became the practical reality of this idea? Here is a warehouse. It's a pick, pack and ship center that has about 10,000 different SKUs. We'll call them red pens, _____ pens, yellow Post-It Notes. We send the little orange robots out to pick up the blue shelving pods. And we _______ them to the side of the building. So all the pick workers now get to stay on the perimeter. And the game here is to pick up the _______, take them down the highway and deliver them ________ to the pick ______. This pick worker's life is completely different. Rather than wandering around the warehouse, she gets to stay still in a pick station like this and every product in the ________ can now come to her.

Solution


  1. worker
  2. shelves
  3. building
  4. straight
  5. deliver
  6. green

Original Text


So of course, now what became the practical reality of this idea? Here is a warehouse. It's a pick, pack and ship center that has about 10,000 different SKUs. We'll call them red pens, green pens, yellow Post-It Notes. We send the little orange robots out to pick up the blue shelving pods. And we deliver them to the side of the building. So all the pick workers now get to stay on the perimeter. And the game here is to pick up the shelves, take them down the highway and deliver them straight to the pick worker. This pick worker's life is completely different. Rather than wandering around the warehouse, she gets to stay still in a pick station like this and every product in the building can now come to her.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
pick workers 5
pick worker 4
fill orders 3
diet coke 3
parallel processing 3
pick stations 3
mobile shelving 2
kiva zone 2


Important Words


  1. blue
  2. building
  3. call
  4. center
  5. completely
  6. deliver
  7. game
  8. green
  9. highway
  10. idea
  11. life
  12. notes
  13. orange
  14. pack
  15. pens
  16. perimeter
  17. pick
  18. pods
  19. practical
  20. product
  21. reality
  22. red
  23. robots
  24. send
  25. shelves
  26. shelving
  27. ship
  28. side
  29. skus
  30. station
  31. stay
  32. straight
  33. wandering
  34. warehouse
  35. worker
  36. workers
  37. yellow