FastFetch Corporation is a technology-oriented company focusing on the delivery of innovative solutions to the distribution and logistics industries. The idea on which the company is based was the brainchild of Dr. Jack Peck who was previously a co-founder of Foxfire Technologies Corporation, a successful software development company that played a pioneering role in creating and marketing warehouse management software.
FastFetch was launched in 2006 with the objective of improving the speed and accuracy of piece picking by combining light-directed picking and putting technologies, wireless barcode scanning, and voice into a single system that enabled a human operator to fulfill multiple orders with a single trip through the picking area. There were two primary motivations behind the ideas that led to the creation of FastFetch. The first was the recognition of the huge upswing in e-commerce activity that was beginning to take place and the second was the lack of affordable technologies to support order fulfillment tasks that are best performed by human operators. We assembled a team of hardware and software engineers who set out to create a revolutionary system for order fulfillment.
The early days were spent creating and testing the hardware and software designs, working with suppliers to create a supply chain, securing patent protection, and gaining field experience with our early adopters. FastFetch was the first to market with a mobile cart for fulfilling multiple customer orders using a mobile computer, such as a tablet PC, to provide both voice and on-screen commands to guide a human picker through the process of picking products from baysand placing them into customer orders on the cart. Furthermore, FastFetch’s design was implemented in a distributed fashion with the cart’s tablet PC communicating directly (i.e., without Wi-Fi) with lights on product bays in order to highlight pick locations and pick quantities, and communicating directly with lights on the cart to highlight put locations. While our flagship product combining voice, barcode scanning, and lights for picking and putting was a novel concept when first introduced, the efficacy of the strategy has now proven its value in many diverse picking environments with some customers reporting picking rates in excess of 1000 lines per hour per picker.
Although our flagship cart-based picking technology proved capable of providing impressive picking rates, it became clear that the design of our technologies enabled them to be reconfigured into alternative material handling systems such as put and pack walls as well as traditional pick-to-light solutions. Today, FastFetch is recognized as an innovation leader in the distribution and logistics industries with our technologies supporting numerous distribution and manufacturing companies across a wide spectrum of product lines.
Our Leadership Team
Dr. John C. (Jack) Peck
CEO, President, and Co-Founder
Dr. Peck is a Professor Emeritus in the Computer Science Department at Clemson University after retiring from Clemson as Chairman of the Department. At Clemson he served in a variety of capacities including Director of the Division of Information Systems Development, an organization he founded to assist South Carolina... Read More...
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Dr. John C. (Jack) Peck
CEO, President, and Co-Founder
Dr. Peck is a Professor Emeritus in the Computer Science Department at Clemson University after retiring from Clemson as Chairman of the Department. At Clemson he served in a variety of capacities including Director of the Division of Information Systems Development, an organization he founded to assist South Carolina State Government in the design and development of very large database/data communication systems such as Medicaid and Online Public Health Medical Records. In addition to authoring numerous scholarly research papers and serving as a principal or co-principal investigator on several Department of Defense and National Science Foundation contracts, Dr. Peck served as an accreditation visitor on several teams for the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and worked for many years as a consultant in computer applications for manufacturing and distribution through Foxfire Technologies Corporation, a software company he co-founded in 1987 and sold in 2007. Dr. Peck currently serves as President and CEO of FastFetch Corporation, a company he co-founded in 2006.
In addition to holding 2 patents on the FastFetch system in the United States, Japan, Mexico, China, India, Canada, England, Ireland, Germany and France, Dr. Peck holds two patents in speech recognition for use by handicapped workers and holds one US patent in intelligent, reconfigurable technologies for warehouse management. Dr. Peck’s primary research interests in computer science are database, manufacturing and distribution systems. Dr. Peck earned an undergraduate degree in mathematics and an MS and PhD degree in computer science from the University of Southwestern Louisiana (now the University of Louisiana).
Dr. Edward W. (Ed) Page
Chairman and Co-Founder
Dr. Page is a Professor Emeritus at Clemson University, and has more than forty years of engineering and management experience in a variety of industry, government, and university positions. His academic career includes service as Professor of Computer Science, Associate Dean of Engineering and Science, and Executive Director of the... Read More...
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Dr. Edward W. (Ed) Page
Chairman and Co-Founder
Dr. Page is a Professor Emeritus at Clemson University, and has more than forty years of engineering and management experience in a variety of industry, government, and university positions. His academic career includes service as Professor of Computer Science, Associate Dean of Engineering and Science, and Executive Director of the Clemson University Research Foundation. He has extensive research experience in artificial intelligence and biologically inspired computing paradigms and has served as principal or co-principal investigator on a variety of research projects sponsored by the Department of Defense, the National Science Foundation, the Department of Commerce, and industry. His technical background also includes research and development in wide-area communication networks, geographically distributed simulations, radar and sonar signal processing, image processing, and industrial applications of microprocessors and microcontrollers. Dr. Page has served as a consultant to several government and industry organizations and has published nearly seventy (70) papers and a book on microcontroller architecture. He is co-inventor of a patent on machine learning.
Dr. Page earned an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from Clemson University, an MS degree in engineering from the University of Alabama in Huntsville, and a PhD degree in electrical engineering from Duke University.
Dr. James A. (Jim) Bate
Vice President of Research & Development
Dr. Bate has held a variety of positions in industry and academia including Operations Research Analyst for J. P. Stevens, Instructor of Computer Science at Clemson University, Project Leader in the development of state-wide CICS and IMS based information systems for the states of Wisconsin and Oklahoma, Project... Read More...
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Dr. James A. (Jim) Bate
Vice President of Research & Development
Dr. Bate has held a variety of positions in industry and academia including Operations Research Analyst for J. P. Stevens, Instructor of Computer Science at Clemson University, Project Leader in the development of state-wide CICS and IMS based information systems for the states of Wisconsin and Oklahoma, Project Leader at Integrated Information Systems in the development of Logistics Support Systems for the Department of Defense, Vice President of R&D for Foxfire Technologies Corporation in the development of Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) and Real-time Shopfloor Control Systems and principal designer on numerous other complex database/data communication projects for such companies as the V.F. Corporation, The William Carter Company, Intertape Polymer Company, ALLTEL Communications and Delta Woodside.
Dr. Bate earned a BS degree in Mathematics from Bob Jones University and MS and PhD degrees in Mathematical Sciences from Clemson University.
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