Amazon is testing a new delivery system: trucks with 3D printers on board

Amazon has for a long time testing different forms of delivery of goods to customers, considering the most exotic options. Amazon now experts have suggested another method for accelerating the delivery of goods, which is to stop wasting drive trucks, delivering some goods. Instead, the mobile can be used "print station»: грузовики with a 3D printer on board , which will go to the local orders, creating customer wants things.

Naturally, such a laptop station will not print, but simple mechanical parts, spare parts, toys and things like print without problems. At the same time, according to experts of the company, significantly reduced the waiting time customer goods, reduced transport costs, increased revenue from such "delivery".



Orders of this kind can receive Amazon customers within a few hours after registration. It works as follows: on the Amazon site exhibited some detail for a car, for example. Buyer orders the item, and after some time, on the day the order arrives to him "mobile print station", which prints the correct part, being already on the way. However, such products are always in stock, their stock in the warehouse does not matter. Now the company is engaged in registration of a patent for a method of "delivery."

It should be noted that previously tested the Amazon system of delivery of goods drones, having thrown the idea after the relevant authorities in the United States began to prohibit drone flights in some regions. In addition, Amazon is testing "smart" delivery system, analyzing the preferences of customers in a particular region, and throwing the most popular products in the region in the nearest branch of Amazon, before ordering such goods buyers.

Source: geektimes.ru/post/246528/