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Mixed Pallet Stacking: An Overview and Summary of the 2010 PerMIS Special Session

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Author(s)

Stephen B. Balakirsky, Henrik I. Christensen, Thomas R. Kramer, Pushkar Kolhe, Frederick M. Proctor

Abstract

Stacking boxes of various sizes and contents on pallets (i.e. making mixed pallets) is a primary method of preparing goods for shipment from a warehouse to a store or other distant site. A special session of the 2010 PERMIS workshop was held to examine mixed palletizing issues. Papers were presented by end-users, vendors, researchers, and evaluators of palletizing solutions. This paper presents a summary of this session and discusses issues ranging from how to construct pallet build plans to metrics for evaluating these plans to competitions that feature novel palletizing approaches.
Proceedings Title
Proceedings of the 2010 Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems (PerMIS) Workshop
Conference Dates
September 28-30, 2010
Conference Location
Baltimore, MD
Pub Type
Conferences

Keywords

Palletizing, Simulation, Metrics, Mixed, Pallet
Manufacturing, Manufacturing systems design and analysis and Metrology

Citation

Balakirsky, S. , Christensen, H. , Kramer, T. , Kolhe, P. and Proctor, F. (2011), Mixed Pallet Stacking: An Overview and Summary of the 2010 PerMIS Special Session, Proceedings of the 2010 Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems (PerMIS) Workshop, Baltimore, MD (Accessed October 10, 2025)

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Created February 4, 2011, Updated February 19, 2017
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