New Comprehensive Fastener Specification and Pallet Durability Model:
Lease Best Pallet™
Best Pallet™ is now available for annual lease, with discounts available for multiple licenses. Technical support and software updates are available during the entire one-year lease period. Click here to learn more.
Free Demonstration Version Available
A free trial of Best Pallet™ is available. Review our brief overview video
to see how the software works. Please note: the trial allows you three program
analyses.
A 3-D Pallet Engineering Design Tool Made Easy
Finally! A pallet design software tool for packaging professionals, buyers and end users. Best Pallet™ lets you:
Design stringer pallets and block pallets
Analyze designs
Optimize designs
Create specifications with graphics
User-friendly and simplified for packaging professionals, buyers and end users, Best Pallet™ provides a structural design and analysis tool for
all wooden pallets. Developed by one of the lead creators of the pallet industry association's proprietary Pallet Design System (PDS), Dr. Marshall White, and his team of experts at Virginia Tech's Center For Unit Load Design, Best Pallet™'s 3-D mathematical model is based on over 30 years of research on the scientific principles of wood properties and systems-based design.
The software gives the user the ability to:
Design stringer pallets and block pallets
Analyze all wooden pallet structures
Calculate maximum safe load weight
Analyze fork tine support strength
Analyze racking and stacking strength and stiffness