Re-think pallet securing
Key drivers for sustainable production and consumption are the underlying supply chains and the handling of goods. Work together with KION and develop smart and sustainable solutions for more environmentally friendly, automated and efficient securing of goods on pallets – as they are one of the key transport carriers of our time.
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Submission Template
For the elaboration of the use cases within the Innovate 2030 project, a common submission template is available. This template will help you to structure your ideas and approaches and to find answers to all relevant questions.
In addition to this submission template, you will find specific requirements and guiding questions for your use case in the "Guiding Questions" tab, which you need to consider when preparing your submission.
You can also complement your submission with prototypes, pitch decks, image and video materials, higher-level concepts, or specific use case-related instruments – simply submit these documents along with the submission template via our platform.
The goal is that through this approach (submission template, guiding questions and optional documents), solutions within the overall project can cover a broad spectrum: From concrete digital product ideas to higher-level visions.
Guiding questions
- How does your solution provide a safe and sustainable packing and stabilization of goods (even mixed variety of goods) on a pallet?
- Can we automatically apply, handle and remove your solution in our warehouses or even on the road and if yes, how?
- Can your solution manage the pallet only being partly opened and safely stored back in the storage?
- Is your solution “zero waste”?
- Can your solution be easily reused without significant additional effort and how do you achieve it?
- Is your solution cost-efficient and low-weight and can be applied to the EPAL pallet standard?
- Is your solution aimed for multi-use?
Criteria & guidelines
Content-related Criteria that should be followed
Often, a solution is considered environmentally friendly simply because it is made from an environmentally friendly material – but that may not be enough. Therefore, think about the following criteria while developing your approach:
- Product protection: Transport damage leads to complaints, return shipments, new production and thus renewed costs, additional transports, etc.. Product protection is therefore the beginning of any sustainable pallet securing concept.
- Material reduction: Reduced material input during pallet securing saves valuable resources.
- Volume reduction: Oversized solutions waste cargo space. Volume-optimized pallet securing ensures optimally utilized capacity and reduces CO2 footprint.
- Reusable solutions: A pallet securing that can be reused several times saves resources and reduces waste.
- Environmentally friendly materials: Materials used for pallet securing are very important when it comes to sustainability.
- Cost neutrality: The new solution should have a positive business case.
Formal criteria that need to be followed
Your solution should match the EPAL standard:
- pallet size 800x 1200 mm
- max. pallet height 2200 mm
- max. pallet weight 1500 kg
Your solution should be able to be applied on any mixed case pallet, for example in retail consisting of paper cases, plastic beverage boxes or plastic bags with paper rolls.
Approaches that have already been pursued
Internal idea campaign at KION back in 2020 regarding pallet layer stabilisation asking the question: How can we automate the process of securing load on mobile transportation units?
First tests on stretch wrap removal prototypes. Details can be discussed in the final phase as soon as a separate NDA has been signed on this topic