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Packing and Shipping Cardboard Tubes

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Progress in Industrial Mathematics at ECMI 2016 (ECMI 2016)

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Spiralpack - Manipulados de Papel, S.A. is one of the main Iberian peninsula players in the production of standard and high performance cardboard tubes. This company attended at 101st European Study Groups with Industry (ESGI) to address the following questions concerning their packing and shipping processes: Given an order for a certain tube specification, possibly with a grouping request, what is the maximum number of tubes that can be packed inside a given container (usually the truck space) and how should they be positioned? Given several pallets of tubes, what is the most efficient way to arrange them in a container? In this work we show an industrial mathematics approach to these challenges, as well as some insight on the software developed to help Spiralpack addressing those questions.

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank Engineering Mathematical Laboratory (LEMA) and Spiralpack for supporting this work. The authors would like to thank all the participants of the 101st European Study Group for contributions on this subject, namely, Adérito Araújo, Ana Ribeiro, Fábio Chalub, Fernando Pestana da Costa, Luís Trabucho and Michael Grinfeld.

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  1. LEMA/ISCAP/IPP, Rua Jaime Lopes Amorim, 4465-004, S.Mamede Infesta, Portugal

    Isabel Cristina Lopes

  2. LEMA/ISEP/IPP, Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431, 4249-015, Porto, Portugal

    Manuel Bravo Cruz

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  1. Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Spain

    Peregrina Quintela

  2. Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Spain

    Patricia Barral

  3. Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Spain

    Dolores Gómez

  4. Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Spain

    Francisco J. Pena

  5. Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Spain

    Jerónimo Rodríguez

  6. Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Spain

    Pilar Salgado

  7. Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Santiago de Compostela, Lugo, Spain, Spain

    Miguel E. Vázquez-Méndez

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Lopes, I.C., Cruz, M.B. (2017). Packing and Shipping Cardboard Tubes. In: Quintela, P., et al. Progress in Industrial Mathematics at ECMI 2016. ECMI 2016. Mathematics in Industry(), vol 26. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63082-3_66

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