The lift truck has become a crucial piece of equipment that could lift and transport products and heavy materials with both speed and efficiency. How a company utilizes this tool could significantly affect its profitability.
A popular storage method is Free Stacking Pallets. This is a way to use your forklift that is easy and economical. Free Stacking Pallets involves positioning one pallet on top of another to make a stack of goods. This is a stable storage system and is suggested when dealing with huge amounts of the same goods, or numerous pallets of the same height and dimensions. The drawback of this technique is that it only enables 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 system which involves the stable storage of different sized pallets. Utilizing a First In First Out or Last In First Out technique, will allow for easy access of any pallet. It permits the rack to change shape and grow depending upon daily requirements. This system needs aisles that are adequately wide to allow a lift truck to freely access the racks and maneuver easily. The downside is that this technique means less pallets could be handled within the environment. This might not matter if there is adequate 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 technique. The difference in the method is how the special narrow forklift is used. This means that smaller spaces are required between the aisles of pallets than in the Pallet Racking method. The advantage is that a lot more goods could be kept in the same area. The downside is that you will have to transition to a new truck if you already own a typical forklift truck. The cost of obtaining special machines may be a deterrent to implementing this specific system of storage.
It is vital to utilize your lift truck to its full capability. It pays to analyze your time costs in storage and retrieval of pallets. After that you could find out whether there are more effective ways to use your forklift in order to increase the usable area of your units or to speed up the process. Greater efficiency equals greater productivity.