the pretty pallet pattern leaves the box ends hanging

BrunoChan1061 · 9 Jun 2025, 04:48 UTC

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BrunoChan1061
I'm checking a UR5e pallet layout and the rotated cases put their reinforced ends above the lower layer's gaps; our packaging person wants less rotation, but dispatch likes the alternating pattern because the labels face out.

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MinaAdams0163
Replying to BrunoChan1061

Labels can move. Crushed ends are harder to fix. Has dispatch seen where the load actually sits?

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BrunoChan1061
Replying to MinaAdams0163

Only the top view so far, I've drawn the reinforced ends onto the layer underneath and it looks rather less clever now.

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MinaAdams0163
Replying to BrunoChan1061

Take them that view. Not everyone reads a pallet sketch the same way.

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GabrielChan1062
Replying to BrunoChan1061

Can labels be read from two sides instead of all four? That might give you more freedom without adding a separate labelling job.

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MinaAdams0163
Replying to GabrielChan1062

Depends where it goes. Our store only reads one side; a customer's conveyor wanted another. Dispatch should know which rule they're designing around.

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DanielBrooks0826
Replying to MinaAdams0163

Adding labels is not free either, especially if somebody has to identify which boxes need the extra one.

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MinaAdams0163
Replying to DanielBrooks0826

Fair, but I said move them, not double them. I'd ask that before redesigning the whole load around the current sticker position.

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BrunoChan1061
Replying to GabrielChan1062

Dispatch says two outward faces are enough for this route, so Gabriel's suggestion gives us another pattern to consider, thanks.

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BrunoChan1061
Replying to BrunoChan1061

And the tool supplier wants wider spaces between two rows to release the gripper, which means packaging has another version coming rather than a finished answer.

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MinaAdams0163
Replying to BrunoChan1061

Do those wider spaces sit under a reinforced end on the next layer?

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