6. Palletizing logistics
6.1 General
Running a modern industry poses many problems that any industrialist, whatever his or her background, has to solve.
Let's take a moment to consider the duality of commerce and finance when it comes to inventories.
The cost of developing a product is easy to control. On the other hand, its operating cost, i.e. the value added between the time it is packaged and the time it reaches the customer, is much more difficult to control. This cost includes packaging, handling, storage and transport. Handling and storage are clearly the most difficult parts of these operating costs to grasp, and as soon as we are concerned with the minimum cost price of a product, these are the key items that must be attacked and, if possible, eliminated....
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Standardization
Association Française de Normalisation (AFNOR) http://www.afnor.fr/
- Sécurité des machines d'emballage. Partie 4 : palettiseurs et dépalettiseurs. Indice de classement : H 94-001-4. (remplace : NF H 95-402 : 05-1981 et NF H 95-403 : 12-1982). - NF EN 415-4 - 12-97
- Management de projet. Recommandations pour l'analyse et la modélisation grahique d'actions et son utilisation pour une meilleure communication entre...
Regulations
- Loi française n˚ 911414 définissant la Directive machines. - - 12-91
- Décrets d'application de cette loi : 92765 Champ d'application, 92766 Procédures de mise sur le marché et de contrôle, 92767 Règles techniques. - - 07-92
- Tous les palettiseurs-dépalettiseurs neufs vendus et installés doivent être conformes à ces décrets. - - 01-95
- Les machines déjà en service avant le 1/01/95 doivent toutes répondre...
Manufacturers. Suppliers (non-exhaustive list)
Palletizers: ABB, Cermex, Mépal.
Software: Mépal.
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