The lift truck has become a crucial piece of machinery that can lift and move things and heavy materials with both efficiency and speed. How a business makes use of this tool can considerably affect its profitability.
Free stacking pallets is the most popular storage technique. Using this storage technique is both economical and easy for your forklift. Free Stacking Pallets is positioning one pallet on top of another to make a stack of products. This is a stable storage technique and is recommended when handling numerous pallets of the same dimensions and height or large amounts of the similar product. The drawback of this particular method is that it just enables access to the things put last, so it does not enable a First In First Out system.
Pallet Racking is a technique which involves the stable storage of different sized pallets. Any pallet could be accessed at any time, that enables a First In First Out or Last In First Out method. It permits the rack to grow and change shape depending upon every day requirements. This specific method needs aisles which are wide enough to allow a lift truck to maneuver easily and to freely access the racks. The downside is that this specific method means less pallets could be handled in the setting. This might not make a difference if there is sufficient space available.
Similar to Pallet Racking, the method called 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 areas are required between the aisles of pallets than in the Pallet Racking way. The benefit is that much more product can be kept in the same space. The downside is that you would have to transition to a different type of truck if you already own a typical lift truck. The cost of obtaining special machines might be a deterrent to implementing this technique of storage.
Using your lift truck to its fullest potential is important since it pays to analyze your retrieval costs and storage costs of pallets. Then you could find out whether there are more effective means to use your lift truck to speed up the process or to increase the usable space of your units. Greater efficiency means bigger profitability.