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Today I would like to show you how to calculate how many cartons you can fit on any type of pallet online and of course free of charge.
The website that we will be using for the pallet load calculation is onpallet.com. onpallet.com is powered by Lorenz Pan AG, which is a German manufacturing company that produces palletizing plants, compact palletizer, robotic palletizer etc.
If you want to learn more about Lorenz Pan AG and their product range please click this link reaching to their company website.
Now let us back to our topic and start learning how to optimize pallet loads by using onpallet.com.
Knowing the exact quantity of cartons that you can load on a particular pallet would be a key of information that you need to have in order to complete the price offer to your customer.
How to optimize your pallet loads online, free of charge?
Consider yourself in a exhibition where you cannot connect to the shipment responsible to get the number of cartons you that you can load on a pallet for a new customer.
If you have an internet connection you can simply calculate optimized pallet loads within seconds.
onpallet.com is a single page website. On the upper right side of the onpallet.com, you can see registraion button.
Step 1: Open onpallet.com
onpallet.com is a single page website. On the upper right side of the onpallet.com, you can see registraion button.
Once you registered the website, you can save your previous pallet loading calculations. Alternatively you can use it without registration as an anonymous visitor instantly.
Home page of the onpallet.com looks like as below.
Once you open the onpallet.com you will see the web form on the left side of the screen. You should enter package details in this form in order to calculate the pallet loading configuration.
Step 2: Insert package data in to the form
Once you open the onpallet.com you will see the web form on the left side of the screen. You should enter package details in this form in order to calculate the pallet loading configuration.
Before starting to complete the field, you can choose between measurement units. You can choose either millimeters or inches; kilograms/pounds.
I prefer to use millimeters as in Turkey we use metric system.
You should enter below data of the form's respective areas:
- Enter length of the package in millimeters
- Enter width of the package in millimeters
- Enter height of the package in millimeters
- Enter package weight in kilograms.
Important Note: "You should be very careful with the maximum pallet weight. Epal states on its official website that their pallets could carry 1500 kgs gross weight. But using 1000-1200 kgs gross weight per pallet would be a more reasonable way."
Step 3: Insert pallet data in to the form
Once you entered package data, please proceed to the next area on the form, where you should fill the pallet data.
You should enter below data of the form's respective areas:
Select pallet type: You can choose Euro pallet, Industry Pallet, 40''x 48'' pallet half pallet and any other custom pallet with unique dimensions.
Enter pallet loading height in millimeters.
After completing required fields, your form should look like as below picture. Please press "Calculate" to proceed next step.
After you hit the "calculate" button, the system automatically make the single layer loading design.
After completing required fields, your form should look like as below picture. Please press "Calculate" to proceed next step.
If the single layer pallet loading plan seems ok please press "Select" button which is located on the right down side of the screen. (you can see select button the the picture below)
As soon as you hit Select button, system calculates complete pallet loading configuration. Final screen of the website will be as follows.
Sample 1 : Online Euro Pallet Load Configuration
Package size: | 250 x 300 x 200 mm |
Package Weight: Pallet Height: Number of packages: | 12kgs 1600mm 96 |
Pallet size:(Euro Pallet) | 800 x 1200mm |
Number of layers: | 8 |
Surface usage: | 93.8% |
Volume usage: | 93.8% |
Total weight: | 1152 kg |
Sample 2 : Online Industrial Pallet Load Configuration
Package size: | 250 x 300 x 200 mm |
Package Weight: Pallet Height: Number of packages: | 10kgs 1600mm 128 |
Pallet size:(Euro Pallet) | 1000 x 1200mm |
Number of layers: | 8 |
Surface usage: | 100% |
Volume usage: | 100% |
Total weight: | 1280 kg |