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Effective Marketing Tool
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Updated 8/6/04
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Some end users think the pallet business is nothing more
than banging boards together - PDS© is an effective instrument for helping you change their minds.
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PDS© helps raise your image from commodity supplier to unit load
consultant. |
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Using this tool to meet your customers' specific needs
conveys your commitment to customer service. |
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When your customer's product is riding on a PDS©-designed pallet - it's sustained by 21st century
technology. |
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Lowered Costs
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When you design just the right pallet rather than one that
is over-engineered, you can reduce material costs. |
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PDS© helps you easily incorporate raw material rate fluctuations. |
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PDS© can be used for an analysis of any wood or wood-based
composite. |
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PDS© is now for remanufactured pallets too!! New upgrades allow
manufacturers to design pallets with all new lumber, combo
pallets with new and recycled lumber or 100% recycled
lumber. |
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Liability Safeguard
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When you provide customers with PDS©-designed pallets, you have nearly 20 years of science and
technology, research and development underpinning your
product. |
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You are able to provide your customers with documentation
for safe and effective usage consistent with customer
requirements. |
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Nuts and Bolts
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The Pallet Design System© is based on engineering fundamentals and matrix structural
analysis techniques. It is the result of many years of laboratory
research and field-testing. NWPCA and the William
H. Sardo, Jr. Pallet & Container Research Lab have
invested an enormous amount of time and resources to create and
enhance this outstanding design and marketing tool.
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PDS© simulates pallet strength, stiffness and life cycle analysis
based on user-specified descriptions of the material-handling
environment. This system can be used to estimate the performance
level of a particular pallet design or assist in creating a new
design to meet a precise performance level. PDS© has been in use since 1984 and is currently used by pallet
manufacturers and recyclers in 15 countries.
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PDS© can assist in the design of many kinds of pallets:
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through Five Stringer |
2-way
or partial 4-way; 4,6 and 9-block |
Post-style
pallets of any size |
Single
or double-face |
From
commonly used wood species-hardwoods, softwoods and
mixtures |
| Single-
or double-winged |
Single
or double cantilever |
Flush
reversible or non-reversible |
Structural
wood composite panels |
With
a full range of parts dimensions |
| Those
made with commonly used fasteners - nails and staples |
Rack
and stacked storage |
Handled
with forklifts, floor jacks and slings |
To
support fully or partially distributed loads; flexible
or rigid case goods, bagged goods or block-type loads |
Single
or multiple concentrated loads - barrels, drums, steel
coils |
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What PDS© can do for your customers:
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Enhance pallet
performance.
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Enhance product
protection.
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Improve safety
for workers throughout the supply chain.
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Reduce material
handling costs.
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Help them
recognize your company as a unit load consultant and
partner.
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"When
you use PDS©,
you have over 20 years of research and development supporting
your pallet."
Marshall
White, Ph.D., Director William H. Sardo, Jr. Pallet &
Container Testing Laboratory
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Version 3.35
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NWPCA is pleased to announce extraordinary
innovations to what is already recognized as the wood packaging
industry's leading marketing and design tool. PDS© has a new version, 3.35, with features that will expand your
ability to serve your customers and attract new ones:
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Custom load types - users can
select different custom load types such as boxes,
bulk boxes, bags, bulk bags, pails and blocks for
better wood pallet designs and more accurate
performance predictions.
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Box stacking pattern - single
layer, column stacked and interlocked stacked boxes
can be selected for better design and more accurate
analyses.
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Load stabilizer - the effects of
stretch or shrink wrap and horizontal and vertical
banding on load flexibility have been incorporated.
Vertical banding can either be perpendicular or
parallel to pallet length.
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Load-bridging response -
long-term creep tests were incorporated in this
version to quantify load-bridging response over
time.
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Copyright statement - new
copyright language has been added to PDS© output to provide more legal protection to all leaseholders.
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Watermark - a translucent mark
with company name and license number can now be
printed onto all PDS© output.
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A simplified grading
specification for pallet components - the new
grading system will replace the current 18 grades in
PDS©. The objective is to have only one set of pallet component
grade that is independent of species and
geographical region.
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PDS© designers can create stringer or block pallets with many
different configurations and deck styles. |
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Create a
design in standard measures or metric -
com-pleted designs can be re-configured from
inches to millimeters with a simple click of
your computer's mouse |
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Contacts for PDS© |
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further questions about PDS© or want to purchase a PDS© license, contact
Terry Treadwell at NWPCA at 703-519-6104.
For information about PDS© training courses contact
Isabel ("Mimi") Sullivan at 703-519-6104.
For those who have an intermittent use for PDS©, contact
Terry Treadwell to obtain an authorization code. Then contact
Peter Hamner at Virginia Tech:
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