The lift truck is a vital machinery to help employees raise and transport heavy weight supplies and goods with speed and efficiency without straining their bodies. The way a company uses this machinery can significantly affect its productivity.
Free stacking pallets is the most common storage system. Utilizing this storage method is both easy and economical for your lift truck. Free Stacking Pallets involves positioning one pallet on top of another to make a stack of products. This is a stable storage technique and is suggested when dealing with numerous pallets of the same height and dimensions or huge amounts of the same goods. The disadvantage of this particular technique is that it only enables access to the things placed last, so it does not allow a First In First Out system.
It is vital to have a pallet racking method which involves the stable storage of different sized pallets. Utilizing a Last In First Out or First In First Out method, will allow for easy access of any pallet. It enables the rack to grow and change shape depending upon daily requirements. This technique requires aisles which are sufficiently wide to allow a lift truck to freely access the racks and maneuver easily. The downside is that this particular technique means fewer pallets can be handled in the environment. This may not make a difference if there is sufficient space available.
Like Pallet Racking, the technique known as Narrow Aisle Racking enables a Last In First Out or First In First Out technique. It varies in that a special narrow forklift is used. This means that smaller spaces are necessary between the aisles of pallets than in the Pallet Racking method. The benefit is that much more product could be stored in the same space. The disadvantage is that you will have to transition to a different kind of truck if you already own a typical lift truck. The expenditure of acquiring special machinery might be a deterrent to adopting this method of storage.
It is vital to utilize your lift truck to its full potential. It pays to consider your time costs in retrieval and storage of pallets. After that you could find out whether there are more efficient ways to utilize your lift truck to increase the usable area of your units or to accelerate the process. Greater efficiency equals greater profitability.