A Software Toolbox for Realistic Dataset Generation for Testing Online and Offline 3D Bin Packing Algorithms

Packing products into a pallet or other medium is an unavoidable activity for producing companies. In many cases, packing based on operator experience and training using patterns that have worked before. Automated packing, the hand, requires systematic procedure devising solutions. scientific literature, this problem known as 3D bin (3DBP) authors proposed exact heuristic solutions variations of problem. There is, however, lack datasets can be used to test validate such Many available use randomly generated with extremely limited connection real practice. Furthermore, they contain reduced number product configurations ignore relates customers’ orders, which specific relative mixes products. This paper proposes software toolbox generating arbitrarily large 3DBPP industry data. The was developed in analysis dataset from food beverages sector, enabled creation several synthetic datasets. are publicly generate additional data testing validating 3DBP increasingly becoming dependent driven. ability good quality support development problems extreme importance. work step direction domain where open scarce.