You know that moment when your cell phone loses connection and your call is dropped? You were mid-sentence, explaining something and the line goes dead. You have to wait until you’re back in range, call the number, start your story from the beginning and what happens? You’ve lost your flow.
Warehouses with poor connectivity suffer a similar problem. A forklift driver depends on constant access to vital information about where to go and what to pick. As they drive around the warehouse, they move out of range of access points or a handshake from one point to another fails, and their device hangs. All of a sudden, they have to stop what they’re doing, reconnect their device and restart the process. They’ve lost their flow.