The Replacement of a Labour-Intensive Paper Industry Warehousing

This project evaluates the feasibility and benefits of replacing a labor-intensive warehousing system with an automated one in the Australian paper industry. It explores the technical, economic, and management aspects of this transition. The project uses a structured methodology, including analysis, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance phases. Key technologies, such as robotics, are examined, and the project also addresses the importance of project management, including the need for skilled personnel and IT infrastructure. The project analyzes the costs and benefits of automation, emphasizing the potential for increased efficiency and reduced labor costs, alongside the need to address the business operations and data-driven decision-making. The study uses Gantt charts to visualize project progress and emphasizes the need for a robust economic analysis, and a clear focus on management concepts. References include various research papers and patents related to warehouse management and automation technologies.

Title: The replace Of a labour-
intensive paper industry
warehousing system with an
automated one

INTRODUCTION
 Background of the research
Paper industry in Australia is well
established adopting significant
innovations and sustainability
features. The growth and
development of the industry is
significant which has created
significant demand within the
economy. The paper mills in Australia
are focusing on enhancing its

Aim and objective
 To evaluate the Automation
warehousing techniques
 To identify the issues related with
automated warehousing in paper
industry
 To analyse the cost benefit aspects
of replacing labour intensive
warehousing with automated
processes

Problem
 Technical aspect: In present era, the automation in
warehousing is a factor that brings competitive advantage
for a firm.
 Economical aspect: The economical aspect of a
particular field helps in looking into the financial merits and
demerits of that area.
 Risk aspect: The manufacturing processes are generally
redundant where the products are handled severally. This
makes the procedure lengthy and thereby hiking the labour
cost. In the automated system, particular bar codes can be
allotted to the warehousing process which will streamline
the process and make it less redundant.
 Management aspect: management concepts are to be
kept clear.

Methodology
Methodology is an important term in this project.
Methodology can be defined as the approach of
clearing the specification of the project along with
applying different tools and techniques in the certain
field to bring out a solution to the research problem
and obtain an unbiased output of the whole research.
In this project, the main aim is to replace the labour
oriented workforce by a fully automated warehouse.
Various analysis and data collection has been done to
achieve the goal of establishing a successful
management concept. Active methodologies have
been developed for the same purpose (Lyon and Furse,
2017).

TECHNOLOGY USED
 The main technology with be Robotics.
 The process of automation in warehousing is a crucial step
for any industry, especially for an industry which was fully
labours oriented. After these implementations, many other
things can happen which helps in bringing so many
improvements in the economy of the country within the
supply chain management. This can improved the total
finance in the country.
 Again, the total cost of a manufacturing firm involves
variety of expenses like transportation, distribution,
allotments and many more that considerably exceeds the
total charges of the paper industry in Australia. However,
for getting the prices down, there is a need of replacing the
labour-intensive works with automatic robotics work .

Project management

Explanation of project
management
 For implementing technical tools like robotics, it is important to
manage a good technical field in the workplace.
 A person should always be there to take care of the technical things.
 Starting from the circuits, to the body parts of the robots need to be
taken care of.
 The head of the company should choose an experienced and
responsible person for the above mentioned job.
 The person should also know about cyber systems. Information
technology is another key requirement in implementing robotics.
 The project management steps are to be followed:
 ANALYSIS
 DESIGN
 IMPLEMENTATION
 TESTING
 DEPLOYMENT
 MAINTENANCE

Results and analysis
 The Gantt chart below shows the
result of the project:
finding project topic
determning research
writing introduction
Conducting review of literature
Developing project methodology and plan
Submitting Project proposal
Extracting management concepts
Data collection
Presentation and submission of progress
report
Structuring project report
Writing structured report
Completing report
Final submission
3/19/2018 5/8/2018 6/27/2018 8/16/2018 10/5/2018 11/24/2018

Progress update
 If the project is given again, more data will be put and analysed.
 Interpretation of more relevant data will be done as this will
increase the weight of the project. Economical and financial fields
will be discussed broadly in order to make a good economic point.
 Warehouse techniques will be evaluated more precisely so as to
make it less time consuming. The aims and objectives of the
project will be fulfilled as it is the most important part of
successful project.
 For a country like Australia, development in economy is
necessary. So, during working on this kind of project, it will be
focused that no financial database is wrongly implemented.
 Wrong database and wrong interpretation may be dangerous for
a country’s economy, especially when it is dealing with a
demanding industry like the paper industry.

WHY IT IS NOT ONLY A TECHNICAL PROJECT
BUT ALSO A MANAGEMENT PROJECT?
 THE REASONS ARE:
 Business operations will also suffer a great change after
this automation process will be applied. However, the
project also deals with management theories in
detailed structure to make the things clear on this field.
 The project works with collecting various relevant data
from various sources.
 This will help in building logic oriented reporting of the
whole thing.
 Detailed explanation of each data will be discussed and
by this it will be possible to understand the main
motive of the project proposal and the validity of the
whole research material will come to existence.

Conclusion
 Technical aspects will be taken care of in a
broader way. In present time, technology is
a very sensitive thing. It will be worst if the
whole project is carried out without any
technical knowledge. Apart from that,
knowledge in good warehouse managing is
also important, so, this field will be taken
into consideration from the next time.
Improved and safest way of researching
will be implemented from the next time.