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The humble pallet is the red blood cell of civilization. There's a ton of really cool optimization ideas like this in Industrial Engineering - factory producti
by FredPret 2y ago
The humble pallet is the red blood cell of civilization.
There's a ton of really cool optimization ideas like this in Industrial Engineering - factory production schedule optimizations, path optimizations, lots of knapsack problems. What a treat that there are people willing to pay for this kind of work.
- bobim 2y agoNice analogy!
- a3n 2y agoI agree, very nice. I'm a truck driver. My analogy, zooming out a bit, is that the entire road system, at least the National Network, is a system of interconnecting and overlapping conveyor belts. The trailers are trays on the belt. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Network https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Network
- FredPret 2y agoShipping containers are another genius-level invention - even better than wheels on luggage. They used individual crates before!
- a3n 2y agoFun fact: inside many of the trailers you see, it's just manually loaded and stacked, and manually unloaded, individual boxes. No pallets. Not most. But many. Another fun fact: US/NATO logistics is pallet-based. Russian is largely not. Unloading shells on a hot day in a "bucket brigade" must be fun.
- FredPret 2y agoTrue - still a lot better than painstakingly offloading a ship's cargo onto trains and trucks and vice versa, one crate at a time. All of civilization runs a good deal faster and better because of shipping containers
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