Internship: Improving load forming logic lead time Internship in Veghel, Netherlands

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Internship: Improving load forming logic lead time Job Description

Assignment type: Internship or graduation assignment
Assignment duration: Approximately 5 months
Location: Veghel

Description of the assignment
Vanderlande provides automated material handling systems and services that focus on improving customers' logistics processes and increasing their logistics performance throughout the entire life cycle. Automated Case Picking is one of such systems.

Case picking is the process of gathering products on a pallet before they are shipped out. Conventionally, case picking is performed manually. There is significant skill required from the employee to make a good stack of products. Key requirements are the following: boxes should not be damaged, the available volume on a pallet should be well utilized, boxes are quick to assemble and last but not least, a pallet load is stable.
The conventional operating poses limitations on the process and make it very human dependent. A complete warehouse automation system can drastically reduce the workforce required to run a facility, with human input required only for a few tasks.

Automatic case picking enables fully automated order picking of a wide variety of products. It provides the answer to the most important challenges of today's retail distribution. See the link for the entire process: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8N0gVFoGTY

At the heart of this system lies a component Load Forming Logic (LFL), which is responsible for planning how an order is handled. This component is responsible for answering the questions:

“Which item goes on which pallet?” and “How are the stacks built?”
A stack  is a complete list of products details, product positions, product sizes and orientations that describe the products on a carrier.    

Your tasks / responsibilities
For a warehouse the time it takes for LFL to calculate a stacking recipe is a certain part of the total order lead time, this time reduces directly flexibility for order scheduling to the stores, in addition, the required server hardware needed to run the LFL application is a serious investment for our projects. Because of this there is continues need for LFL to reduce its stack calculation time and the required server hardware needed to achieve this.
Your proposal is based on the current LFL architecture and technologies, a list of improvement options to reduce the calculation time and/or required server hardware, and if possible make a proof of concept for one of these options. The proposed directions to investigate can be very broad: Operating system, software architecture, threading model, algorithms, multi cpu, gpu, code optimisations, shall be investigated as possible improvement directions. The proposed directions for improvements shall be ranked on risk and impact. Based on the outcome of this analysis phase, a proof of concept of one solution can be prototyped.

Your department
The Research & Development (R&D) department of Vanderlande is responsible for the development of new products for internal material handling systems for warehousing, parcel&postal and baggage handling systems. For this assignment, knowledge on C#, Java, mutli-threaded programming and Multi CPU/ GPU programming would be desirable.

Internship: Improving load forming logic lead time Job Requirements

Educational level: HBO / WO (Bachelor / Master)
Desired study: Software Engineering, Computer Science or related education
Language: Dutch and/or English

 

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