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
- Schools involved School of Architecture, Wood and Civil Engineering
- Institute(s) Institute for Digital Construction and Wood Industry IDBH
- Research unit(s) Digital Fabrication group FGDF
- Funding organisation Others
- Duration 01.09.2020 - 14.12.2022
- 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.
