How To Load Layers On A Pallet

1. Click Containers
2. Click Loading tab
3. Select Bottom to Top radio button
4. Select In height radio button

 

Cube-IQ helps with Layering by providing a button to set best values for the Palletizing Rules

1. Click Containers
2. Click Palletizing tab
3. Click Set Value button

• Use seq/groups only for depalletizing
• Maximum gap after spreading
• Minimum bridging support
• Max. height difference in layer
• Max. height difference in layer at top
• Max. height differential

Use Cube-IQ's Load layers feature to layer Products in a Pallet

The Load layers feature for Pallet Containers is disabled by default.
 
Here is a Load where orange and green products are loaded without the Load layer feature. Illustration is with orange and green Products loaded separately and then together.

 
Follow these steps to make the Pallet load Products in layers:

1. Click Containers menu
2. Click Pallet rules tab
3. Click Load layers checkbox

 

Only Load layers box is checked. The other Layers fields will be discussed in the next section.
 
Here is how the orange and green Pallets are loaded when Load layers is enable, and how orange and green Products are loaded together.

 

• The orange Products formation is unchanged after loading them in layers.
• The green Product's formation has changed to be more suited to load a Pallet of green Products.
• The orange and green Pallet formation together has also changed to have their corners and edges line up better.

Use Spread layers feature to load Layers along the 4 edges of Pallets

Enabling layers will allow the Spread Units rule to be checked. Spread Units rule will evenly distribute product layers between the edges of a pallets.
 
To enable Spread Units:

1. Click Containers menu
2. Click Pallet Rules
3. Check Spread Units box

 

Here is the orange Pallet result, green Pallet result and the orange and green Pallet after Spread Units is checked.

 

1. The orange Products formation has not changed on account of them already along the Pallet's edge.
2. The green Product's formation has changed to be distributed evenly between edge of Pallet.
3. The orange and green Pallet formation together has also changed to have the corners and edges line up to the corners of the pallet.

Use Rotate layers feature for better stability

Having enabled Layers and its Units spread, a layer can also be rotated.

To enable Rotate Layers by:

1. Click Containers
2. Click Pallet Rules
3. Check Rotate layers box

 

Here is the orange Pallet, green Pallet, and the orange and green Pallet result after Rotate layers is checked.

 

• The orange Pallet's formation for the second layer is rotated rotated 90 degrees.
• The green Product's formation for second layer is also now rotated 90 degrees.
• The orange and green Pallet formation together has also changed to have every other layer rotated 90 degrees.

Rotating layers produces a more stable Pallet. Here are two pallets showing their Stability index.

 

• Left Pallet is Layered/Spread/Rotated, and has Stability Index of 0.866.
• Right Pallet is loaded without Layers and only has Stability Index of 0.318.

Stability index is much better for the Pallet where products are Layered, Spread, and Rotated.

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