A pallet designer must satisfy a set of precise client specifications and supply all necessary production and quality control documents. To achieve these objectives, PALLET-Express provides the following functional features : a comprehensive library of geometric layouts (e.g. pallets with stringers, blocks, notched stringers, perimeter-base, holed top decks, asymmetric pallets), geometric criteria testing (e.g. input dimensions, load-bearing surface), 2D drawing layout, realistic 3D renderings, spec sheets (part dimensions, scaling, shrinkage, assemblies).

The methods applied to evaluate mechanical performance (strength, strains), intended strictly to ensure the safety of goods and people, rely upon the physical test of pallet samples built to be submitted to a series of tests, in accordance with procedures such as those stipulated in ISO 8611.

Another method consists of using numerically-modelled samples based on a software application like PALLET-Express.
As long as these computer-aided design procedures for wooden pallets continue to be refused by standardization bodies, tests on physical prototypes will remain the norm for practical purposes.

Nonetheless, by making use of reliability methods and Monte-Carlo simulation techniques, the tests conducted on the basis of PALLET-Express numerical pallet models can prove as effective as physical prototype testing. Above all, they offer the advantage of providing a lower-cost decision-aid method prior to launching laboratory testing campaigns that obviously entail greater costs.

In this aim, PALLET-Express proposes either a deterministic or probabilistic analysis of pallets under uniform or linear type loading conditions and under any kind of handling or storage conditions: on racks, stacked, using slings, on forks or conveyors.

Whether printing a comprehensive quote or enjoying the software's aesthetic and ergonomic attributes for use at meetings, PALLET-Express yields a significant commercial advantage.

What about the price ?