Abstract
A method includes defining a configuration of physical bundles on a physical support surface, providing a bundle computer model of at least one of the physical bundles and providing a conveyor computer model of a physical conveyor. The physical conveyor is a conveyor configured to carry the physical bundles from an upstream end of the physical conveyor to a downstream end and to deposit the physical bundles on the physical support surface. The physical conveyor includes a controller and at least one adjustment section configured to adjust a position and/or orientation of the physical bundles. Also using a processor running the conveyor computer model to automatically determine from the conveyor computer model and the bundle computer model a control data set including instructions for causing the controller to operate the physical conveyor to produce the configuration of the given number of the physical bundles on the physical support surface.