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The humble pallet is the red blood cell of civilization. There's a ton of really cool optimization ideas like this in Industrial Engineering - factory production schedule optimizations, path optimizations, lots of knapsack problems. What a treat that there are people willing to pay for this kind of work.
The humble pallet is the red blood cell of civilization. There's a ton of really cool optimization ideas like this in Industrial Engineering - factory production schedule optimizations, path optimizations, lots of knapsack problems. What a treat that there are people willing to pay for this kind of work.
The humble pallet is the red blood cell of civilization. There's a ton of really cool optimization ideas like this in Industrial Engineering - factory production schedule optimizations, path optimizations, lots of knapsack problems. What a treat that there are people willing to pay for this kind of work.
Nice analogy!
I'm a truck driver. My analogy, zooming out a bit, is that the entire road system, at least the National Network, is a system of interconnecting and overlapping conveyor belts.
The trailers are trays on the belt.
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Nice analogy!
I agree, very nice. I'm a truck driver. My analogy, zooming out a bit, is that the entire road system, at least the National Network, is a system of interconnecting and overlapping conveyor belts. The trailers are trays on the belt. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Network
They used individual crates before!
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I agree, very nice. I'm a truck driver. My analogy, zooming out a bit, is that the entire road system, at least the National Network, is a system of interconnecting and overlapping conveyor belts. The trailers are trays on the belt. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Network
Shipping containers are another genius-level invention - even better than wheels on luggage. They used individual crates before!
Not most. But many.
Another fun fact: US/NATO logistics is pallet-based. Russian is largely not.
Unloading shells on a hot day in a "bucket brigade" must be fun.
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Shipping containers are another genius-level invention - even better than wheels on luggage. They used individual crates before!
Fun fact: inside many of the trailers you see, it's just manually loaded and stacked, and manually unloaded, individual boxes. No pallets. Not most. But many. Another fun fact: US/NATO logistics is pallet-based. Russian is largely not. Unloading shells on a hot day in a "bucket brigade" must be fun.
Thanks for this! We ditched our Tops Pallet software a year ago and have been looking for something similar. Where can we donate to the development?
Thanks for this! We ditched our Tops Pallet software a year ago and have been looking for something similar. Where can we donate to the development?
Looks great! If you did do something related to truck fill, would be great to see if it could be generalised to 3D bin packing. I’m currently working a free / open source warehouse management system so great to see other people working on supply chain problems!