Work Support Device for Packing Box Size Selection
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Solution Overview
Problem
In logistics, particularly during commodity collection and packing, workers face challenges in selecting appropriate-sized collection and packing boxes without knowing the exact number and type of commodities needed, leading to inefficiencies and potential misplacement of items.
Innovation Solution
A work support device equipped with a processor, storage unit, display unit, and instruction information reading unit, which generates a three-dimensional support image displaying the reduced size of articles to be stored in a packing box, allowing workers to plan optimal storage positions and sizes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If workers select collection boxes or packing boxes based on volume information alone, then the packing work can be supported, but the commodities may not fit when their dimensions (width, depth, or height) exceed the box dimensions
Solution Approach 1:
The support device performs preliminary calculation of whether commodities fit in the box before the actual packing work begins. By computing the fit status in advance based on commodity dimensions and box dimensions, the system prevents mismatched packing and guides workers to select appropriate box sizes beforehand.
Solution Approach 2:
The support device provides feedback to workers by displaying whether each commodity fits in the selected box. This feedback mechanism allows workers to adjust their box selection based on real-time information, ensuring proper fit while maintaining ease of operation.
2Adaptability or versatility
If workers do not know the quantity and type of commodities to be collected in advance, then flexibility is maintained, but it becomes difficult to appropriately select box size and plan storage positions
Solution Approach 1:
The support device performs preliminary calculations of box selection and storage position planning based on the work instruction information received before packing begins. This allows workers to prepare in advance while maintaining flexibility to adapt to actual commodity conditions during collection.
Solution Approach 2:
The support device dynamically adjusts its support information as work instruction information is received during the collection and packing process. The system can recalculate and provide updated guidance based on actual commodity quantities and types, maintaining both adaptability and productivity.
3Productivity
If storage positions are fixed in the packing box, then packing organization is improved, but commodities with specific packing characteristics (e.g., not to set sideways) cannot be properly positioned
Solution Approach 1:
The support device provides differentiated storage position guidance based on the specific packing characteristics of each commodity type. Instead of uniform positioning rules, the system applies localized positioning strategies tailored to each commodity's requirements, such as orientation constraints or stacking preferences.
Solution Approach 2:
The support device preliminarily determines appropriate storage positions and orientations for each commodity based on its packing characteristics before the actual packing begins. This preliminary planning ensures that commodities with special requirements are positioned correctly from the start.
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AI summary
A work support device which supports a work of storing a plurality of articles of a plurality of types in a packing box, includes: a processor; a storage unit; a display unit; and an instruction information reading unit, in which the storage unit holds at least a size of the articles of each type, the instruction information reading unit reads work instruction information for instructing a packing work of storing the article in the packing box, the processor acquires a quantity and a size of the articles of each type to be stored in the packing box based on the work instruction information and information held in the storage unit, and generates a support image that overlooks a three-dimensional space in which a figure, in which the sizes of the articles of each type to be stored in the packing box are reduced at a same scale, is arranged in a predetermined direction from a predetermined reference position, according to an indication order of the article of each type based on a predetermined rule, for a quantity of each type to be stored in the packing box, and the display unit displays the support image.