Dematic launches innovative mixed case palletising solutions
by Nigel Lewis on 2010-07-05104 views
Until recently, the only way to assemble a pallet containing many different SKUs (stock keeping units) was to do it manually. But as logistics professionals know, repetitive and heavy tasks are both physically demanding and costly. And, unless mixed case pallets are carefully assembled by experienced personnel, the resulting stacks of goods may be unstable, risking product damage during transport and adding to transport costs by taking up more cubic space than necessary.
Driven by OH&S concerns and skills shortages, there is an increasing demand for smart solutions that take mixed case palletising in a new and exciting direction.
The attached article by Dematic’s Industry Logistics Manager, David Rubie, details how advances in software, robotics and intelligent storage, buffering and sequencing systems have enabled the development of two innovations designed to reduce the cost and significantly improve the efficiency, productivity and safety of building mixed case pallets.
