“Flying drones in a warehouse? But why?” I was instinctively skeptical when I first heard of drone startup Verity’s idea to fly drones in industrial warehouses. A few years later, more than a hundred Verity drones fly in IKEA’s warehouses worldwide. Here’s the lesson I learned.
Emerald just published the world’s first peer-reviewed paper taking a management perspective on drones in manufacturing. Written by Omid Maghazei and myself, the paper explores the current state and future opportunities for using drones in factories. The paper published in the Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management is open access. Here are the main findings.
