internship: Calculation of stacking sequence Internship in Veghel, Netherlands

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internship: Calculation of stacking sequence Job Description

 Internship: Calculation of stacking sequence
Assignment type: Graduation
Start date: To be discussed
Assignment duration:  6-7 months
Location: Veghel

Description of the assignment
You will be part of the Research & Development (R&D) department of Vanderlande. This department is responsible for the development of new products for internal material handling systems for warehousing, parcel&postal and baggage handling systems.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. For instance, an automated storage and retrieval systems, which simply use cranes to store and retrieve identified cases or pallets, typically into a high-bay storage system which would be unfeasible to access using fork-lift trucks or any other means.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. Here is the link to the video that describes the entire process: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8N0gVFoGTYAt 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?
• What will the stacks look like?
• How are the stacks built?

• The input for the task is a set of stacks. Vanderlande will provide a set of reference stacks to be used in the assignment for testing and evaluation purposes.
• The expected output is an algorithm which can determine a better stacking sequence. The quality of the stacking sequence should be evaluated by several criteria, one of which is to ensure low height differences during each stacking step. Usually, not every criterion can be optimized simultaneously, therefore an optimal solution does involve trade-offs. The development of this measure for evaluation is also a goal of this assignment. The measure should be used for comparison between our current stacking sequences and the new stacking sequences.

internship: Calculation of stacking sequence Job Requirements

Educational level: WO (Master)
Desired study:Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Embedded Systems
Language: English

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