The lift truck is a vital machine to help employees lift and move heavy weight supplies and products with speed and efficiency without injuring their bodies. The way a business uses this machinery could significantly affect its productivity.
Free stacking pallets is the most popular storage technique. Using this storage method is both easy and economical for your lift truck. Free Stacking Pallets is positioning one pallet on top of another to create a stack of goods. This is a stable storage system and is recommended when handling huge amounts of the same product, or many pallets of similar height and dimensions. The drawback of this method is that it just allows access to the things placed last, so it does not enable a First In First Out system.
It is important to have a pallet racking technique that involves the stable storage of various sized pallets. Using a Last In First Out or First In First Out technique, would enable for easy access of any pallet. It enables the rack to grow and change shape depending upon every day needs. This specific method needs aisles which are wide enough to enable a lift truck to freely access the racks and maneuver easily. The disadvantage is that this specific technique means less pallets can be handled in the setting. This might not matter if there is adequate space available.
Narrow aisle racking is like pallet racking in that it enables for a Last In First Out or First In First Out method. The difference in the system is how the special narrow lift truck is used. This means that smaller spaces are necessary between the aisles of pallets than in the Pallet Racking technique. The benefit is that more goods could be stored in the same space. The disadvantage is that you will have to transition to a new truck if you already own a typical lift truck. The expenditure of acquiring special machinery might be a deterrent to implementing this specific technique of storage.
Using your forklift to its fullest potential is important as it pays to consider your retrieval costs and storage costs of pallets. Then you can determine whether there are more effective ways to use your lift truck to increase the usable space of your units or to accelerate the process. Greater efficiency equals bigger productivity.