The lift truck is a very important tool to help employees raise and transport heavy weight supplies and products with speed and efficiency without straining their bodies. How a business utilizes this machine could considerably affect its productivity.
A popular storage technique is Free Stacking Pallets. This is a way to use your forklift that is both easy and economical. Free Stacking Pallets involves placing one pallet on top of another to create a stack of products. This is a stable storage method and is recommended when dealing with numerous pallets of similar height and dimensions or huge amounts of the same product. The drawback of this technique is that it only enables access to the objects put last, so it does not enable a First In First Out system.
Pallet Racking is a method which involves the stable storage of various sized pallets. Any pallet could be accessed at any time, that allows a First In First Out or Last In First Out system. It allows the rack to change shape and grow depending upon every day requirements. This specific method needs aisles that are adequately wide to allow a lift truck to maneuver easily and to freely access the racks. The downside is that this technique means less pallets can be handled in the setting. This might not matter if there is enough space available.
Narrow aisle racking is similar to pallet racking in that it enables for a First In First Out or Last In First Out system. The difference in the technique is how the special narrow lift truck is utilized. This means that smaller areas are necessary between the aisles of pallets than in the Pallet Racking technique. The benefit is that more product could be kept in the same space. The downside is that you will have to transition to a different type of truck if you already own a regular lift truck. The expenditure of acquiring special equipment may be a deterrent to adopting this specific technique of storage.
Utilizing your lift truck to its fullest potential is vital because it pays to analyze your storage costs and retrieval costs of pallets. Afterward you could determine whether there are more efficient ways to use your forklift in order to increase the usable space of your units or to accelerate the process. Greater efficiency equals bigger profitability.