In mathematics it is called the "combinatorial" problem. Start with one
package and place it in the container then fit another against it. Then fit
another package against these two. And so on. Now go back to the first
package and place it in a new position and try all of the remaining
combinations. Essentially you must test every combination of every package
in every position in the container. The number of combinations is enormous.
The linear programming algorithm in mathematics can get close to a
reasonable solution.
Nicholas Geti
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Taylor" <fbtay...@gmail.com>
To: "ProFox Email List" <profox@leafe.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2013 4:39 PM
Subject: Re: Container packing optimisation
It is complex. When I moved from PA to AZ, a friend of mine that was a
packaging engineer was in charge of fitting the various sized boxes and
items on the truck. It was like a giant jig-saw puzzle. When we got to
AZ, we unloaded the truck into my brother's garage because the house
wasn't
ready yet. Two weeks later, when the house was ready, we had the same
size
truck as we moved in, but it took 2 truck loads to move. And those 2
truck
loads sure seemed like they were full, but they were not packed as
carefully as the PA-AZ move was.
Fred
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Michael Madigan
<mmadi10...@yahoo.com>wrote:
This sounds like an extremely complex issue.
________________________________
From: Vassilis Aggelakos <vassi...@gmail.com>
To: "profox@leafe.com" <profox@leafe.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 9, 2013 3:51 PM
Subject: Re: Container packing optimisation
I have worked for years on similar problems in the past, but at last I
decided to use a 3dparty library from http://www.optimalprograms.com/
works nicely with VFP.
Hope this helps
Vassilis Aggelakos
Sent from my iPad
On 9 Μαϊ 2013, at 22:41, Mark Dimmock <ma...@actongate.co.uk> wrote:
> Evening all,
> Has anyone come across any code for working out efficient loading of
shipping containers with various sizes of packages? I can easily work out
the total volume of the packages and compare to the space available, but
this doesn't take into account how they all fit together. I guess this is
a
science in its own right but hope there is some clever person who has
tackled this before in VFP.
>
> Regards, Mark
>
> Mark Dimmock
> Acton Gate Systems Limited
> Automotive Components Park
> Hallens Drive,
> Wednesbury WS10 7DD
> T: 0121 505 6533
> F: 0121 505 6943
> M: 07977 431106
> *: ma...@actongate.co.uk
> Web<mailto:ma...@actongate.co.uk%0BWeb>: www.actongate.co.uk<
http://www.actongate.co.uk/>
>
>
>
> ______________________________________________________________________
> This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud
> service.
> For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com
> ______________________________________________________________________
>
> --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts ---
> multipart/alternative
> text/plain (text body -- kept)
[excessive quoting removed by server]
_______________________________________________
Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com
Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox
OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech
Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox
This message:
http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/78B0811C2AB347A19FA0E6E357478295@dual
** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the
author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added
to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
