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FedEx Plane Network Visualisation
This is truly incredible.
The FedEx CIO is giving a fascinating presentation on the 'networks' (electron and atom based) that they have inside FedEx.
Here's a video he pointed to that shows the airplane network of FedEx (yes, these are just FedEx planes) flying in and out of Memphis during a 24 hour period.
I love visualisations and this one is a cracker:
As he says, you don't want to live near Memphis airport with all those planes flying out at 4am every morning.
The guy next to me (I think he's from Fidelity Investments?) says that sending a package from SF to LA, it flies to Memphis and back. Incredible.
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Even more interesting is what the airport at memphis looks like. The whole gate area (where the plane stops) has those rollers on the ground so they can roll a container out of a plane, and then slide it right into the distribution center. These big containers slide in, then there are guys there waiting who open them up, drop all the articles onto a conveyor system from which point they are automatically routed to the next container where they are loaded, slide out of the distribution center again and into the next plane.
The system is amazing, people are only involved in sliding the containers out, unloading them, loading articles back in and sliding them back out to the plane. All these planes park right around this massive distribution building. With the 'sliders' on the ground, you have a single person dragging a *massive* container.
The fedex 'hub and spoke' logistics system is just amazing.
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Nice video. I'm jet lagged and tired, so with that peaceful music it was almost hypnotic.
The video showed some direct flights from LA to SF or so it seemed. I'd think that they'd do directs if the traffic warranted.
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