Companies carry out manufacturing processes at various locations, even within the same factory. Each location requires raw materials and supplies to create finished products. The facility can store ...

Amazon this week has been issued two patents for a bracelet that can track the movements of a warehouse worker’s hands in real time. First shared by GeekWire on Tuesday, the patents describe an ...

A diagram shows how an ultrasonic wristband can track a warehouse worker’s position in relation to a given inventory bin. (Amazon Illustration via USPTO) Update for 9:30 a.m. PT Feb. 5: Amazon ...

Amazon has been granted a patent to create technology that can be used to track the precise locations of workers’ hands. The patent application was filed in 2016 and granted by the U.S. Patent Office ...

Amazon has a new way to keep tabs on warehouse workers. As GeekWire reports, the online retailer was awarded a pair of patents for a wristband-based monitoring system that can track warehouse workers' ...

If there was ever a question as to which side Amazon stands in the fight between efficiency vs. privacy, its new patent for a buzzing wireless wristband for its warehouse workers might give us an ...

It’s been proven that self-proclaimed “nerdy guys” can change the course of technology from the comforts of their own garages. But Bruce Bender, president of DigitalBins.com, doesn’t intend to build ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind.—The notion of just-in-time delivery systems, born in the 1960s as the brainchild of Toyota's Taiichi Ohno and known as the Toyota Production System, was adopted by other Japanese ...

This article originally published Feb. 2, 2018, and was updated Feb. 5, 2018, with a statement from Amazon. Warehouse workers often describe high-pressure environments, where a push for maximum ...

Amazon has been issued a pair of patents for a wristband system that monitors whether warehouse workers are moving their hands correctly. The patents, first reported by GeekWire on Jan. 30, cover ...