Pallet (pallet), also known as pallet, plywood, from the Chinese national standard "Logistics Terminology", refers to the use of assembling, stacking, handling and transportation of goods and products placed as a unit load of horizontal platform devices. As a container with a similar assembly equipment, pallets are now widely used in production, transportation, warehousing and distribution and other fields, is considered to be the 20th century logistics industry, one of the two key innovations.
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Pallet as logistics operations in the process of important loading and unloading, storage and transportation equipment, and forklift supporting the use of modern logistics plays a huge role in the modern logistics industry to bring the benefits of the modern logistics industry is mainly embodied in the following: you can realize the items packaged in the unitization, standardization and standardization, to protect the items, to facilitate the flow of logistics and business. Logistics on the pallet, according to the material, use, table, forklift fork into the way and structure of the distinction, there are a variety of types.
Pallet operation can not only significantly improve the effect of loading and unloading, its implementation, so that the form of warehouse buildings, the construction of ships, railroads and other modes of transport loading and unloading facilities, as well as the management of the organization have changed. In the packaging of goods, promoting the packaging specification and modularization, and even outside the general production activities outside the loading and unloading of the way will have a significant impact. With the production equipment more and more sophisticated, more and more high degree of automation, the production of more and more planning and management of progressively more advanced, inter-process handling and supply of materials and semi-finished products to the production line has become more and more important.
And the pallet work is to rapidly improve the handling efficiency and material flow process is an effective means of organizing, in reducing production costs and improve production efficiency plays a huge role.
The major principle of handling operation is the principle of the least amount of work. That is, when the goods move to minimize the "secondary handling" and "temporary parking", so that the number of handling as low as possible. In order to improve the efficiency of transportation, of course, the operator wants to minimize the transfer operation.