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Just lasted 2 days moving pallets barrels and cylinders. I needed the customers to accept non-full 300 lb barrels instead of the full 500 lb. Couldn't do it. Pallets and wrapping were to load a bit easier but often we cut the shrink wrap at the first stop and the pallet had stuff for like 3 stops. Seems like the shrink wrap was practical to keep stuff from flying around but also regulatory, cops could write a ticket.
Stuff like this is great. Fast moving consumer goods is a vastly underrated represented technology sector, they do so much cool stuff that just goes completely unnoticed. I started my first job in a warehouse and it really gave me a good look at the proprietary technology powering day to day life. It should be more open but few work on stuff like this.
The entire industry runs off closed source systems with little to no accessibility for external developers. The companies developing these systems like it this way, as it means they get a large number of billable hours through their service departments, since there are very few developers available with the expertise to work on these systems.
Ah! That's a pretty much orphan subject yet the world is constantly moving pallets. For pallet stability you would like to have a convex perimeter so the stretch wrapping maintains the boxes effectively. And also criss-crossing boxes for shear resistance. But you need to align as much boxes corners as possible to get vertical stiffness. A solver proposing stacking patterns with these constraints would be outstanding.
The magic might not be obvious?
I've made an animation[0] using the demo image[1] from VladM7's Stack-Solver.
[0] - https://img.go-here.nl/palet-stack.gif
[1] - https://github.com/VladM7/Stack-Solver/blob/master/img/scree...
pallet is 120 long. 21+21+21+21+35=119 pallet is 80 width. 21+21+35=77
> And also criss-crossing boxes for shear resistance.
Mirror the next layer.
Besides useful it also looks impressive to have a full looking pallet with criss-crossing.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Would love to hear more about a FOSS WMS - which aspects are you focusing on initially?
Amazing! I’m trying to make a WMS that’s very easy to customise (rather than configure) - will come with a highly opinionated set of base processes but then will be built in a way that it’s incredibly easy to edit them (rather than building a million parameters/toggles). Handset processes are installed like apps.
