The lift truck has become a crucial piece of machine that could lift and move things and heavy materials with both speed and efficiency. The way a company utilizes this machinery can significantly affect its profitability.
Free stacking pallets is the most popular storage technique. Using this storage technique is both easy and economical for your lift truck. Free Stacking Pallets is placing one pallet on top of another to make a stack of goods. This is a stable storage method and is suggested when dealing with numerous pallets of similar height and dimensions or huge amounts of the same goods. The drawback of this specific system is that it only enables access to the objects put last, so it does not allow a First In First Out system.
Pallet Racking is a method which involves the stable storage of different sized pallets. Any pallet could be accessed at any time, that enables a Last In First Out or First In First Out method. It permits the rack to grow and change shape depending upon every day requirements. This method requires aisles that are wide enough to enable a forklift to maneuver easily and to freely access the racks. The disadvantage is that this specific method means less pallets can be handled in the setting. This may 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 technique. The difference in the system is how the special narrow forklift is utilized. This means that smaller areas are required between the aisles of pallets than in the Pallet Racking method. The advantage is that more goods could be stored in the same area. The downside is that you will have to transition to a different kind of truck if you already own a typical lift truck. The cost of obtaining special machines might be a deterrent to adopting this technique of storage.
Utilizing your lift truck to its fullest potential is important since it pays to analyze your storage costs and retrieval costs of pallets. Afterward you could determine whether there are more effective means to use your lift truck in order to increase the usable area of your units or to speed up the process. Greater effectiveness means bigger profitability.