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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 13, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 27, 2006
Agni Asgeirsson, Kopavogur, IS;
Agni Asgeirsson, Kopavogur, IS;
Marel HF, Gardabaer, IS;
Abstract
A method for decision aiding in batching of items of varying weight, size, or shape into packs of fixed weight and item count, said method characterized by controlling the average weight of items used, by rejecting selected portion of the available pool of items, according to calculated 'Optimal Usage Curve', wherein the 'Optimal Usage Curve' represents the ‘overweight of batches’ as a function of the ‘ratio of items used’, the ‘overweight of batches’ represents the average batch weight while the ‘ratio of items used’ is the number of items used in the batching process over the total number of items in the pool of items.