The lift truck has become a crucial piece of equipment that can raise and transport products and heavy materials with both efficiency and speed. How a business makes use of this tool can significantly affect its productivity.
A popular storage technique is Free Stacking Pallets. This is a way to utilize your lift truck that is easy and economical. Free Stacking Pallets involves placing one pallet on top of another to make a stack of products. This is a stable storage technique and is recommended when dealing with many pallets of the same height and dimensions or huge amounts of the similar product. The drawback of this method is that it only allows access to the items placed last, so it does not allow a First In First Out system.
It is vital to have a pallet racking method that involves the stable storage of different sized pallets. Utilizing a Last In First Out or First In First Out system, would enable for easy access of any pallet. It permits the rack to change shape and grow depending upon every day requirements. This technique needs aisles which are wide enough to allow a forklift to freely access the racks and maneuver easily. The downside is that this method means less pallets could be handled within the setting. This may not matter if there is sufficient space available.
Like Pallet Racking, the technique called Narrow Aisle Racking allows a First In First Out or Last In First Out method. It differs in that a special narrow forklift is utilized. This means that smaller spaces are necessary between the aisles of pallets than in the Pallet Racking way. The benefit is that much more goods could be stored in the same space. The downside is that you would have to transition to a different kind of truck if you already own a typical lift truck. The expenditure of acquiring special equipment might be a deterrent to implementing this method of storage.
Using your lift truck to its fullest potential is essential since it pays to consider your retrieval costs and storage costs of pallets. Then you could determine whether there are more effective means to use your lift truck to speed up the process or to increase the usable space of your units. Greater effectiveness means bigger productivity.