The forklift truck is a vital machine to help employees raise and transport heavy weight materials and products with efficiency and speed without straining their bodies. The way a business uses this tool can significantly affect its productivity.
Free stacking pallets is the most popular storage system. Using this storage system is both economical and easy for your lift truck. Free Stacking Pallets is positioning one pallet on top of another to make a stack of goods. This is a stable storage method and is recommended when dealing with numerous pallets of the same height and dimensions or large amounts of the similar product. The disadvantage of this specific method is that it just allows access to the items placed last, so it does not enable a First In First Out system.
Pallet Racking is a system which involves the stable storage of various sized pallets. Any pallet can be accessed at any time, which enables a Last In First Out or First In First Out technique. It enables the rack to change shape and grow depending upon daily needs. This technique needs aisles which are wide enough to enable a forklift to maneuver easily and to freely access the racks. The downside is that this particular system means less pallets could be handled in the environment. This may not matter if there is enough space available.
Similar to Pallet Racking, the method referred to as Narrow Aisle Racking enables a First In First Out or Last In First Out technique. It varies in that a special narrow lift truck is utilized. This means that smaller areas are necessary between the aisles of pallets than in the Pallet Racking method. The advantage is that more goods can be kept in the same space. The downside is that you would have to transition to a new truck if you already own a regular lift truck. The expenditure of obtaining special machinery might be a deterrent to adopting this specific method of storage.
Utilizing your forklift to its fullest potential is vital because it pays to analyze your retrieval costs and storage costs of pallets. After that you can find out whether there are more effective ways to use your lift truck in order to accelerate the process or to increase the usable area of your units. Greater effectiveness means bigger profitability.