Expiry detection of honeycomb structured green pallets: A case study

Abstract

Due to the recent global push for adapting green technologies in logistics industry, environment friendly corrugated or honeycomb structured green pallets will be used extensively in future transportation systems. Also, there is no need of International Standards for Phytosanitory Measures (ISMP) 15 for export of green pallet. Many other advantages are observed during the use of these types of pallets in logistics operations. The main drawback of the green pallets is their durability which is lesser than other types of pallets. This drawback became the reason of accidents and increase in cost of the production in industries. In this paper, a case study is presented which has been performed in a green pallet industry (XYZ Pvt. Ltd.) based in Delhi-NCR state of India. This company makes the honeycomb structure based green pallet. An idea is proposed by which the expiry of such pallets will be determined and labeled using regression models and RFID based tags so that the accidents in industries can be minimized. Strength test for the calculation of time to sustain the particular load is an important test to consider for the estimation of the expiry date of honeycomb structure based green pallets. These tests have been performed on an in-house Universal Testing Machine (UTM). Regression analysis has been done for the expiry generation by using Microsoft Office Excel 2007 software. A Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) based approach has also been discussed briefly for the detection of expiry prior to the usage of green pallets.