Sorting and grading of wooden pallet parts are key factors for manufacturing quality and durable pallets. The feasibility of ultrasonic scanning for defect detection and classification has been examined in this report. Defects, such as sound and unsound knots, decay, bark pockets, wane, and holes were scanned on both red oak (Quercus rubra, L.) and yellow-poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera, L.) pa...

Abstract The aim of the work is to study possibility replacing wood sawdust pellets with grain at heating systems. Due energy crisis experienced in winter 2022-2023, when price used increased by 300% compared previous year, some periods wooden pallets disappeared from commerce, replacement sources which small power domestic boiler were designed operate on justified. It known that corn has a hig...

In this research, the influence of global slenderness and sliding pallets factor on seismic design steel storage racks are assessed. Variations in span length, height levels, live load, percentage load considered mass studied for different levels zone soil type. The models were designed according to Chilean Code NCh2369. Subsequently, a sensitivity analysis was developed analyze each parameter ...

I n the production line of many industries there exists the procedure of palletizing/depalletizing sacks of raw or finished materials. The plastics industry, for example, uses polyethylene for the production of a series of products, including polyethylene pipes for irrigation, plastic sheets for greenhouse coverings, and other agricultural uses. The usual production procedure is as follows. Pal...

A common issue that most automotive manufacturers have to face in production logistics is the efficient handling of a considerable number of cost-intensive pallets, trays, boxes and similar reusable packaging goods. As empirical studies show, deficiencies in monitoring, controlling and optimizing packaging material are widespread within this industry. In this contribution a case study is used t...

RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) recently has gained enormous attention in various industry sectors, the media, and in academic research. This paper focuses in early RFID applications in the retail supply chain. It takes a quick look at the available literature and then explains the technological issues including the need for standardization and the challenges on the data, network, and app...

In this paper, we describe a CBR approach for failure diagnosis of a pallets transfer. Adaptation phase is the key problem of the case-based reasoning system conception. This paper is a contribution to fill this gap in the equipments diagnostic and repair help. Retrieval step guided by adaptation is proposed, as a result similarity measures associated with an adaptation measure are proposed. Th...

A basic idea for embedding the spectral pallet in RGB pixels is proposed. A tri−color image is converted into the spectral image, whose pixel is replaced by the spectral reflectance having the closest colorimetric value to that of pixel by looking up the spectral color pallets. SVD representation was very useful for the spectral image compression. We applied SVD for rearranged 36 pixels x36 spe...