Pallet, also known as pallet and splint, comes from China's national standard "Logistics Terminology" and refers to a horizontal platform device used for containers, stacking, handling and transportation to place goods and products as unit loads. As a kind of container-like equipment, pallet is widely used in the fields of production, transportation, storage and circulation, and is considered as one of the two major innovations of logistics industry in the 20th century.
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Pallet, as an important loading and unloading, storage and transportation equipment in the process of logistics operation, plays a huge role in modern logistics when used in conjunction with forklift trucks. The benefits it brings to modern logistics industry are mainly reflected in: it can realize the unification, standardization and standardization of goods packaging, protect goods and facilitate logistics and business flow. According to materials, uses, countertops, forklift ways and structures, there are many types of pallets in logistics.
Pallet operation can not only significantly improve the loading and unloading effect, but also change the loading and unloading facilities and management organization of warehouse building form, ship structure, railway and other modes of transportation. In the aspect of goods packaging, it promotes the standardization and modularization of packaging, and even has a great impact on general production activities other than loading and unloading. With the more sophisticated production equipment, higher degree of automation, stronger production planning and more advanced management methods, it is becoming more and more important to carry between processes and supply materials and semi-finished products to the production line.
Pallet operation is an effective means to quickly improve the handling efficiency and make the material flow process orderly, which plays a great role in reducing production costs and improving production efficiency.
The main principle of handling operation is the principle of minimum workload. In other words, when the goods move, we should minimize "secondary handling" and "temporary parking" and minimize the number of handling. In order to improve transportation efficiency, operators certainly hope to reduce transshipment operations as much as possible.