Re: Container packing optimisation

2013-05-09 Thread Nicholas Geti
uot;Fred Taylor" To: "ProFox Email List" Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2013 4:39 PM Subject: Re: Container packing optimisation It is complex. When I moved from PA to AZ, a friend of mine that was a packaging engineer was in charge of fitting the various sized boxes and items on t

Re: Container packing optimisation

2013-05-09 Thread Jeff Johnson
I used to fill trucks and box cars with appliances when I worked for GE. I did it manually based on charts they provided. Any empty spots were filled with baffles by the loaders. Probably easier than what you are looking at because our products were limited in number. Jeff ---

Re: Container packing optimisation

2013-05-09 Thread Alan Bourke
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Re: Container packing optimisation

2013-05-09 Thread Fred Taylor
M, Michael Madigan wrote: > This sounds like an extremely complex issue. > > > > From: Vassilis Aggelakos > To: "profox@leafe.com" > Sent: Thursday, May 9, 2013 3:51 PM > Subject: Re: Container packing optimisation > > > I

Re: Container packing optimisation

2013-05-09 Thread Michael Madigan
This sounds like an extremely complex issue.    From: Vassilis Aggelakos To: "profox@leafe.com" Sent: Thursday, May 9, 2013 3:51 PM Subject: Re: Container packing optimisation I have worked for years on similar problems in the past, but at last I

Re: Container packing optimisation

2013-05-09 Thread Vassilis Aggelakos
I have worked for years on similar problems in the past, but at last I decided to use a 3dparty library from http://www.optimalprograms.com/ works nicely with VFP. Hope this helps Vassilis Aggelakos Sent from my iPad On 9 Μαϊ 2013, at 22:41, Mark Dimmock wrote: > Evening all, > Has anyone com

Container packing optimisation

2013-05-09 Thread Mark Dimmock
Evening all, Has anyone come across any code for working out efficient loading of shipping containers with various sizes of packages? I can easily work out the total volume of the packages and compare to the space available, but this doesn't take into account how they all fit together. I guess t