Automatic dimensioning, volume measurement, and determining the positioning of loads in the transport process is a method for optimal utilization of available space and resources.VMS (Volume Measurement System) systems used for such tasks provide full information about the size, shape, and arrangement of transported objects. The group of users includes both well-known operators in the container transshipment terminal market, as well as major postal and courier companies.
Everything in its place
The understandable drive of companies to reduce operating costs, including in the field of logistics, leads to the progressive automation of broadly defined transport processes. We encounter the problem of effectively classifying transported or stored loads in terms of dimensions in many sectors of the economy. Starting from container traffic in large, international transshipment terminals at seaports, railways, and airports, and ending with the distribution of various postal and courier shipments, we are dealing with the need to have full knowledge of the actual flow of the entire mass of cargo.
The understandable drive of companies to reduce operating costs, including in the field of logistics, leads to the progressive automation of broadly defined transport processes. We encounter the problem of effectively classifying transported or stored loads in terms of dimensions in many sectors of the economy. Starting from container traffic in large, international transshipment terminals at seaports, railways, and airports, and ending with the distribution of various postal and courier shipments, we are dealing with the need to have full knowledge of the actual flow of the entire mass of cargo.
The article comes from the magazine “Logistyka” 2002/3.