The Factory That Pays for Itself, Part 5: ~$40.50 a Bin — What the Whole Stack Actually Costs

The three-year TCO for 400-bin autonomous e-Kanban: approximately $40.50 per bin over three years, measured against the honest market baseline — vendor-published sensor-and-SaaS pricing that brackets $168–$544 per bin depending on tier. The spread between the two cost structures is roughly 4×–13×, with $0 recurring cloud cost. Here is the cost decomposition, the real vendor anchors, and what…