FIELD INSIGHT | MICHAEL COLLINS

Here's the part new engineers miss. Sometimes the right answer isn't a conveyor at all. Where there's real density and slow-moving SKUs and not much floor, a goods-to-person system can beat a pick-and-conveyor line cleanly. I love finding the elegant, simple solution to a complicated problem. Not the most sophisticated one. The minimum one that actually solves it. Sometimes that's my conveyor. Sometimes it's honest to say it's not.

Michael Collins