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The Pallet Design System (PDS) is the premier computer-aided design tool that helps you design the best pallet for any job at the lowest cost. Whether your challenge is improving safety, lowering costs, enhancing quality or forecasting next year's pallet costs, you can count on PDS to provide solutions.

COMPUTER ENGINEERED PALLETS
PDS looks at a wide spectrum of design alternatives based on customer-specific handling performance needs. The program then factors in all locally available materials needed to build the pallet.
  Constantly updated through ongoing research conducted by Virginia Tech University, the Pallet Design System produces low cost and accurate performance forecasts, identifies potential problem areas and redirects the pallet supplier and user to more practical design alternatives without costly trial-and-error or expensive prototyping and testing.

THE RIGHT PALLET, THE LOWEST COST
PDS is an incredibly powerful and versatile tool that allows pallet suppliers to customize pallet designs for specific materials handling challenges. Here are just some of the Pallet Design System's many benefits:

• PDS reduces costs. By choosing the right materials and the best design for the particular job, PDS produces the best pallet for your specific needs without expensive and wasteful over-engineering.
• PDS gives you tremendous versatility. The program can design any style of pallet, whether you need a lumber or panel deck pallet or a stringer or block design. PDS can design reversible or non-reversible decks; single or double-faced styles; and single-wing, double-wing, or flush end pallets.
• PDS profiles materials that enhance quality and save you money. PDS accommodates a vast variety of wood species from around the world, using any grade of lumber and accepting all moisture content levels. It will also consider every style of pallet fastener used today.
• PDS takes the guess work out of pallet performance. The program uses a detailed description of the actual unit load and materials handling conditions, helping it accurately predict the pallet's load-bearing performance.
• PDS meets your real-world challenges. PDS quantifies how pallets will perform with any style of racking system and in stacking configurations up to five pallets high. It will also highlight potential failure areas under real world conditions.
• PDS enhances workplace safety. The program recommends safety and design implements, reducing or eliminating product damage, costly equipment shutdowns, pallet-related injuries, and possibly even litigation liability in lawsuits.
• PDS ensures agreement between the pallet user and the pallet supplier. With PDS, you can be sure everyone is on the same page. PDS produces six-page "pallet blueprint" detailing exactly what the customer wants in language the pallet user will understand. PDS allows the pallet user to approve the pallet design before it goes into production.

So the next time you order pallets, ask about PDS... the right pallet at the best lowest cost.

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