Unit Load Design Course for Pallet Suppliers
Date: August 15-17, 2017
Location: Brooks Forest Products Center
This August the Center for Packaging and Unit Load Design at Virginia Tech is powering a short course for pallet suppliers on unit load design. This course will teach wood pallet and manufacturers, pallet brokers and pallet repair operators how to use pallet design differently.
Objectives:
– Learn to effectively design corrugated boxes
– Learn how to use pallet design to reduce packaging spend
– Reduce product damage
– Identify opportunities to reduce the operating cost of your supply chain
– Learn the principles of System Based Unit Load Design: the systems based optimization procedures that will improve customer service and increase your competitiveness
– Learn how to use the Best Load™ unit
Topics:
Principles of unit load design; Unit load material handling audit procedures; Packaging design; Pallet design; Material handling systems; Interactions between material handling equipment, packaging, and pallets; Diagnosing and solving material handling problems; stringer and block class pallet design using Best LoadTM
Instructors:
– Marshall S. White (Professor Emeritus and CEO of White and Company)
– Laszlo Horvath (Director, Center for Packaging and Unit Load Design)
Unit Load Design Course Registration
Register with Virginia Tech Outreac Program Development by calling (540) 231-5182. Registration deadline is August 1, 2017. For more information view full agenda or or call 540-231-7673.
