Offline

The gap width (mm) between the boxes. Recommended value: 10–20mm.

Setting a minimum gap width can avoid collisions when the boxes are tightly stacked. The common causes of collisions include inaccurate dimensions or poses of the recognized boxes.

This parameter specifies the corner of the pallet on which the boxes are palletized first.

Description: Specify the index of the currently viewed pallet.

When the box edge length read from an offline order is smaller than this value, an alert will pop up.

When the boxes are relatively small, the planning time for offline mixed-case palletizing will be longer. Setting this parameter can avoid an overly long computation time caused by the mistakenly input order.

When the Offline Method is set to Four sku, this parameter is used to adjust the orientations of the carton axes. When Default is selected, the orientations will not be specified. After selecting Inward or Outward, you can select the X-axis or Y-axis of the box reference frame to make it point to the inside or outside of the pallet.

The pink axis in the figure below is the X-axis.

Select the folder where the offline order file(s) in JSON format are stored.

Select the offline order file you need in the drop-down list.

Save the current pallet pattern to the file. After the “Offline Result Saving Path” is set, the pallet pattern file will be automatically generated in the specified folder.

If this parameter is selected, the software will directly read the saved pallet pattern result from the selected “Offline Result Reading Path” and ignore the current input settings such as orders, algorithms, and parameters.

The label of the box is applied to the surface of the width edge. The surface of the width edge faces outward for subsequent scanning.

This parameter affects the pallet pattern.

If the stacks of boxes differ greatly in height, it is recommended to split the stacks with more boxes into multiple shorter stacks to make the top surface of the entire stack as flat as possible. This strategy helps to lower the center of gravity of the entire stack and improve stability during handling.

This parameter affects the sequence of palletization.

When calculating the sequence of palletization, start by placing the boxes of the shorter layer before the taller ones. This helps avoid situations where one stack of boxes is placed while others are still pending, preventing collisions between held and already placed boxes.

Once this parameter is selected, the software will tend to gather the boxes in the middle of the pallet for palletizing.

Not selecting this parameter will prompt the software to attempt filling the entire pallet, ensuring even distribution of boxes and maximizing space utilization.

Once this parameter is selected, the software will adjust the block size to reduce the gap width and increase the space utilization.

If there is a small quantity of a certain type of box in the order, not selecting this parameter can avoid excessive gap between the boxes in the upper layer, thus keeping the pallet pattern stable.

In the process of calculating pallet pattern, the hanging percent refers to the ratio of the dimensions which the upper box is allowed to extend beyond the current layer to the short side of the box, when a new stacking layer is placed on the current layer.

If box A is placed in the upper layer, the hanging percent then refers to the ratio of the dimensions which the upper box is allowed to extend beyond the corresponding area in the lower layer to the short side of the box A. If the percentage is too large, the box may not get sufficient support from the lower layer.

When using the optimal pallet pattern, it is frequently observed that a block remains partially unfilled, which may be caused by two reasons. First, even with the optimal pallet pattern, it is challenging to completely fill the block. For instance, if the block is 10.8 times the area of a box. Secondly, the boxes may be not enough. In such a scenario, by adjusting this parameter, you can ensure that the area usage percent of all blocks in the pallet pattern is at least the set value. The area usage rate for each block is usually not expected to be very low, so it is recommended to keep the default value as 0%.

This parameter is only used for checking the pallet pattern and does not include the calculation of the pallet pattern. The obtained multiple pallet pattern solutions will be inspected, and only those pallet patterns where all box labels face outward will be remained. After inspection, it is possible that not all boxes in the obtained pallet patterns have labels facing outward. In this case, the software will output an empty pallet pattern, indicating that a suitable solution was not found.

As the search depth increases, more pallet pattern results can be obtained, and theoretically better pallet patterns may be obtained. However, as the search depth increases, the computation time increases accordingly.

It is recommended to test different search depths according to the actual situation, especially the performance of the industrial personal computer.

Once this option is selected, palletize in the SKU order specified in the offline order file.

When this option is not selected, boxes with smaller SKU will be palletized first.

Selecting this parameter ensures that the top surface height of later-placed boxes is higher than or equal to that of previously placed boxes.

Set a time limit for branch calculations; if the branch calculation exceeds this limit, the results obtained up to that point should be considered as the final results, and subsequent calculations should be stopped.

The count limit of SKU on a single pallet. If SKU is merged, this parameter refer to the count of merged SKU.

When one kind of SKU can fill an entire layer, the odd and even layers will use different pallet patterns.

Once this parameter is selected, boxes of comparable dimensions will be categorized as belonging to the same SKU.

This parameter group is used to determine whether the boxes are similar in dimensions, and if the difference between the X, Y, and Z lengths of different boxes is less than the set tolerance, the boxes of different SKUs will be merged into the same SKU.