The lift truck has become a crucial piece of machine able to raise and transport products and heavy supplies with both speed and efficiency. How a company uses this machine can significantly affect its profitability.
Free stacking pallets is the most popular storage system. Utilizing this storage system is both economical and easy for your lift truck. Free Stacking Pallets involves positioning one pallet on top of another to make a stack of goods. This is a stable storage technique and is suggested when dealing with huge amounts of the same goods, or numerous pallets of the same height and dimensions. The disadvantage of this system is that it only enables access to the objects placed last, so it does not enable a First In First Out system.
It is essential to have a pallet racking technique which involves the stable storage of different sized pallets. Utilizing a First In First Out or Last In First Out system, will allow for easy access of any pallet. It permits the rack to grow and change shape depending upon daily needs. This particular technique requires aisles that are wide enough to enable a lift truck to freely access the racks and easily maneuver. The downside is that this specific method means less pallets can be handled within the environment. This might not matter if there is enough space available.
Narrow aisle racking is similar to pallet racking in that it allows for a Last In First Out or First In First Out method. The difference in the method is how the special narrow forklift is utilized. This means that smaller spaces are necessary between the aisles of pallets than in the Pallet Racking technique. The benefit is that much more goods could be kept in the same space. The disadvantage is that you would have to transition to a new truck if you already own a typical lift truck. The expenditure of obtaining special equipment may be a deterrent to adopting this technique of storage.
It is vital to utilize your forklift truck to its full potential. It pays to consider your time expenditure in storage and retrieval of pallets. Then you could find out whether there are more effective ways to use your lift truck in order to increase the usable space of your units or to speed up the process. Greater effectiveness means bigger productivity.