The forklift truck is a vital tool to help workers raise and move heavy weight materials and products with efficiency and speed without injuring their bodies. The way a business uses this machine can considerably affect its productivity.
A popular storage technique is Free Stacking Pallets. This is a way to utilize your lift truck that is both economical and easy. Free Stacking Pallets is placing one pallet on top of another to make a stack of goods. This is a stable storage system and is suggested when handling large amounts of similar product, or many pallets of similar dimensions and height. The drawback of this technique is that it only allows 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 that involves the stable storage of different sized pallets. Using a First In First Out or Last In First Out technique, will enable for easy access of any pallet. It enables the rack to grow and change shape depending upon daily needs. This technique needs aisles which are wide enough to enable a lift truck to freely access the racks and maneuver easily. The downside is that this particular technique means less pallets could be handled in the environment. This might not make a difference 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 system. The difference in the technique 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 a lot more product can be stored in the same space. The downside is that you would have to transition to a new truck if you already own a typical forklift truck. The cost of obtaining special equipment might be a deterrent to adopting this particular system of storage.
Utilizing your lift truck to its fullest potential is essential because it pays to analyze your storage costs and retrieval costs of pallets. Afterward you could find out whether there are more effective ways to utilize your forklift in order to speed up the process or to increase the usable space of your units. Greater effectiveness means bigger profitability.