"There's been a movement among companies away from component-based to systems-based design--designing multiple elements in unison to create the optimal
unit load prior to field trialing and implementation."
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Unit Load: Take a System-Based Approach to
Unit Load Design
"It's because of rigid engineering and specifications - designed to allow for a uniform stable
unit load platform - that Chep is able to significantly reduce product damage for its customers," he notes.
"The vacuum controlling system eliminates the need for a heating system, saves energy, and does not release ozone-depleting chemicals into the earth's atmosphere," says Zhangjjng Chen, one the researchers working on the project at the Center for
Unit Load and Design in the wood science and forest products department of Virginia Tech's College of Natural Resources.
It is designed for non-standard freight transportation conveyances, such as intermediate bulk containers (IBCs), airfreight
unit load devices (ULDs), roll cages, pallets and totes.
(Richmond, VA) has begun the publication of
Unit Load Management magazine.
With MaxLoad Pro, one can enter or import an existing manifest, carton, drum,
unit load or pallet load database.
A
unit load, or export coefficient, is a simple value or function expressing pollutant generation in mass per unit area and unit time for each land use or averaged over the entire contributing basin.
Steve Hartlidge, frozen food warehouse superintendent for Dominick's, a Chicago area supermarket chain, said he is trying to make the warehouse a "100%
unit load facility," discouraging trucks with floor or bed-loaded cargo that drivers or self-appointed "lumpers" have to unload.
Two new versions of Best Load
unit load design software, Version 3.4 and Version 3.4 Enhanced, have been released.
Telair offers aerospace on-board cargo loading and handling, restraint systems and
unit load devices for a range of commercial and military platforms with positions on a range of new and existing aircraft.