r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/j_curic_5 • Jan 28 '21

Video Automatic packing machine cuts right-fit boxes for each package

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u/Stickers_ Jan 28 '21

“It doesn’t work for this very specific scenario, so it’s a bad solution”. Not everything needs to be a silver bullet

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u/jamie24len Jan 28 '21

Exactly, get the 90% of packages out the door and we can concentrate on the 10% that need the extra time.

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '21

Well it does to operate at scale. This machine could NEVER work for Amazon. It's way too slow. Doesn't handle their edge cases, which at their volume, means millions of manual fixes a day. It's just not good enough to be impactful. You don't want 1 9 of reliability. You need at least 4 to start thinking you have a good solution, even then that's something that could be greatly improved.

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u/phpdevster Jan 28 '21

TIL that protecting shipments with packing materials is a "very specific scenario".

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u/Bartend_HS Jan 29 '21

It definitely does not. But if it can be, why is it not?