Modern palletizing systems are designed mainly for performance and flexibility. In today’s competitive scenario, the cost of palletizing system,its installation lead time and its proper integration with material transport system present inside the plant are the factors of major concern for any industrial engineer. At the same time the system he designs, should be flexible enough to accommodate ...

Millions of wooden pallets are discarded annually due to damage or because their low cost makes them readily disposable. Higher quality wooden pallets, however, can be built from high quality deckboards and stringers, and have a much longer life cycle and a lower cost per trip. The long-term goal of this project is to develop an automated pallet part inspection system to sort pallet parts accor...

This paper addresses the problem of autonomous manipulation of a priori unknown palletized cargo with a robotic lift truck. More specifically, we describe coupled perception and control algorithms that enable the vehicle to engage and drop off loaded pallets relative to locations on the ground or arbitrary truck beds. With little prior knowledge of the objects with which the vehicle is to inter...

Rute perjalanan adalah faktor utama yang dapat menentukan alur pendistribusian barang. Penelitian ini membahas penentuan rute terpendek pallet kayu dari CV. Bintang Jaya (Bogor) menuju ke PT. Yanmar Diesel Indonesia (Depok) untuk mendapatkan dan biaya ongkos murah. Tujuan penelitian membuat model lebih pendek dengan membandingkan beberapa ada, sehingga akan didapatkan pilihan sering dilalui. Pe...

This paper presents the results of a financial ratio survey conducted by the National Wooden Pallet and Container Association (NWPCA) in 1997 for the 1996 tax year. Financial information obtained from NWPCA member and nonmember firms was used to construct financial ratios and measures of business performance for the wood pallet industry. Ten ratios common to the NWPCA survey, Robert Morris Asso...

We propose a branch and cut algorithm for the Pallet Loading Problem. The 0-1 formulation proposed by Beasley for cutting problems is adapted to the problem, adding new constraints and new procedures for variable reduction. We then take advantage of the relationship between this problem and the maximum independent set problem to use the partial linear description of its associated polyhedron. F...

We study the combinatorial FIFO Stack-Up problem, where bins have to be stacked-up from conveyor belts onto pallets. This is done by palletizers or palletizing robots. Given k sequences of labeled bins and a positive integer p, the goal is to stack-up the bins by iteratively removing the first bin of one of the k sequences and put it onto a pallet located at one of p stack-up places. Each of th...