Pallet Design
"To optimize your pallet design, five interactive design parameters must be balanced. These parameters are interactive and optimizing just one (i.e. minimizing pallet cost) will significantly impact the others. The proper balance of these five characteristics will vary, depending on your specific product and distribution environments. "
http://www.palletenterprise.com/articledatabase/articles/page91.pdf
Each of the five is listed below:
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Strength
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Stiffness
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Durability
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Funtionality
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Cost
Computerized pallet testing provides our customers with a reliable estimate of a pallet design's weight capacity. Current and alternative pallet designs are compared for strength, and specification changes are often made with valuable cost savings to our customers.
