Automation of the production of wooden crates and special pallets
Currently, wooden boxes for packaging and special pallets are mainly produced manually. An automated process is being developed with the aim of speeding up production in batch sizes from one to several hundred.
Factsheet
- Lead school School of Architecture, Wood and Civil Engineering
- Institute Institute for Digital Economy in the Construction and Wood Industries
- Research unit Digital Manufacturing
- Funding organisation Others
- Duration (planned) 01.09.2020 - 30.06.2022
- Project management Prof. Eduard Bachmann
- Head of project Prof. Eduard Bachmann
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Project staff
Prof. Eduard Bachmann
Nikita Aigner
Situation
Currently, wooden boxes for packaging and special pallets are mainly produced manually. An automated process is being developed with the aim of speeding up production in batch sizes from one to several hundred.
Course of action
The new concept relies on gluing instead of nailing and has also investigated solutions for automated quality control of the heterogeneous raw material (rough-sawn battens). A follow-up project is now looking into the issue of quality control.
