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Designs how parts would travel from the receiving dock to the line on autonomous mobile robots, one standard method for every hub, with every handoff scanned and recorded.

An open invitation, not a vacancy: several people can take it at once, and it carries no number until you commit to something specific. This page says what Moduloa hopes for and where a first contribution could start.

Say what you would deliver

Why it matters

Why Moduloa needs this

The marking requirement is written for a factory with no one standing at the receiving desk: arriving material is bound to its BOM line by scan, and a nonconforming delivery is quarantined on a machine report. The thesis lists carts built to be moved by humanoids or AMRs, WIP racks, quarantine areas and robot docks as standard blocks, but no manufacturing page yet describes the trip from dock to station. The AMR side has open interfaces in VDA 5050 (version 3.0 since April 2026) and ISO 21423 (now under publication), while the Journal found the link up into production systems has so far been built bespoke, site by site.

What we hope for

What you would bring

  • AMR or AGV fleets you have designed, commissioned or run in a plant or warehouse, ideally from more than one vendor.
  • Fleet interfaces and managers: VDA 5050, MQTT and JSON messaging, traffic and charging management.
  • Material flow for assembly: line-side presentation, WIP buffers, quarantine flows, sub-assemblies moving between stations.
  • Receiving and identification: ASN matching, GS1 or Data Matrix scanning, binding a delivery to an order line.
  • Integration with a WMS or MES, the bespoke half the AMR standards leave out.
On the task board

Tasks that suit you

Each has a plain test for done. Ask to commit to one: name what you will deliver and a date no more than three months after it is accepted. Several people can work on the same task, each with its own deliverable.

Or your own

Other first deliverables

Each is specific enough that by its date anyone can tell whether it was delivered. Some are a task above in a smaller form. Name one, or a better one.

  1. A receiving-to-line flow for the EX-100: dock scan, BOM-line binding, cart, station, with each handoff, the robot or AMR that does it and the record it writes.
  2. A draft interface for a standard cart and rack: footprint, docking, identification and load, so any vendor's AMR or a humanoid could move it.
  3. A mapping from VDA 5050 v3.0 transport orders to the factory OS objects: which fields an order would need from Station, Fixture and the quality record, and what it writes back.
The terms

What this is, and is not

What this is not

Not an AMR purchase, a vendor partnership or a pilot site: there is no hub and no fleet yet. On its own a seat carries no pay, no equity and no supplier position, and any paid work is agreed separately.

What you get

When your commitment is accepted, it shows on the task and on your seat card, and a first commitment takes the next permanent number on the register, with your name, a link and your date. When the work is delivered in the open you are aboard and a certificate is issued. Nothing is paid for a seat and none is for sale: on its own a seat carries no equity and no supplier position, and any paid work is agreed separately, on its own terms. The entry stays either way: a commitment not delivered by its date is marked lapsed and dated, never removed.

How to start

Pick a task that suits you and ask to commit to it, or name your own first deliverable: what you will deliver and a date no more than three months after it is accepted. Write to shk@moduloa.com, or use the link on any task, which opens the contact page with the subject filled in. It does not have to be large. It has to be specific enough that anyone can tell by its date whether it was delivered.

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