The forklift truck is a vital tool to help workers raise and move heavy weight materials and products with speed and efficiency without straining their bodies. The way a business utilizes this tool could significantly affect its productivity.
Free stacking pallets is the most popular storage technique. Utilizing this storage system is both easy and economical for your forklift. Free Stacking Pallets is positioning one pallet over another to create a stack of products. This is a stable storage technique and is suggested when dealing with huge amounts of the same product, or numerous pallets of similar height and dimensions. The drawback of this particular system is that it just enables access to the items placed last, so it does not allow a First In First Out system.
It is vital to have a pallet racking system that involves the stable storage of different sized pallets. Utilizing a First In First Out or Last In First Out technique, will allow for easy access of any pallet. It enables the rack to change shape and grow depending upon every day needs. This specific technique needs aisles that are sufficiently wide to enable a forklift to freely access the racks and easily maneuver. The downside is that this particular method means fewer pallets can be handled within the environment. This may not make a difference if there is adequate 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 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 much more product could be stored in the same area. The disadvantage is that you will have to transition to a new truck if you already own a typical lift truck. The cost of obtaining special equipment might be a deterrent to implementing this particular system of storage.
It is important to utilize your forklift truck to its full capability. It pays to consider your time expenditure in retrieval and storage of pallets. Then you could find out whether there are more effective means to use your forklift to accelerate the process or to increase the usable space of your units. Greater effectiveness equals greater productivity.