The lift truck is a very important machinery to help employees raise and transport heavy weight supplies and products with efficiency and speed without straining their bodies. The way a business makes use of this tool could considerably affect its profitability.
A common storage technique is Free Stacking Pallets. This is a way to utilize your forklift which is both easy and economical. Free Stacking Pallets is positioning one pallet over another to make a stack of goods. This is a stable storage system and is recommended when dealing with huge amounts of the same product, or numerous pallets of similar height and dimensions. The disadvantage of this system is that it only allows access to the items placed last, so it does not allow a First In First Out system.
It is essential to have a pallet racking system that involves the stable storage of various sized pallets. Using a Last In First Out or First In First Out system, would allow for easy access of any pallet. It allows the rack to grow and change shape depending upon every day requirements. This system requires aisles which are wide enough to enable a lift truck to maneuver easily and to freely access the racks. The downside is that this specific system means less pallets can be handled in the setting. This might not matter if there is sufficient space available.
Narrow aisle racking is similar to pallet racking in that it allows for a First In First Out or Last In First Out technique. The difference in the technique is how the special narrow lift truck is utilized. This means that smaller spaces are necessary between the aisles of pallets than in the Pallet Racking method. The advantage is that more product could be kept in the same area. The downside is that you would have to transition to a new truck if you already own a typical lift truck. The expenditure of acquiring special machinery might be a deterrent to adopting this specific method of storage.
Using your forklift to its fullest potential is essential because it pays to consider your retrieval costs and storage costs of pallets. After that you could determine whether there are more efficient ways to utilize your lift truck in order to accelerate the process or to increase the usable area of your units. Greater efficiency equals bigger productivity.