Industrial fencing has a variety of purposes. It is often used to protect high-value items, manage hazardous materials, or to delineate operational areas in a facility.
Efficient Storage Solutions can:
Design, procure, and install new chain link or wire mesh fencing. Furthermore, we can relocate your existing fencing and add gates or additional lineal feet as required.
Mezzanines are elevated platforms that are installed between the concrete slab and the ceiling. They can add one level or multiple levels of working area or storage. Adding mezzanine work platforms can be the most cost-efficient way to increase warehouse storage space without the expense of a building expansion.
When designing a mezzanine, it is important to consider access points, work systems, products, and handling methods in order to custom plan your system. Steel mezzanine systems can be completely disassembled and re-used. The structure, dimensions, column spacing, and location are easily modifiable, with numerous possible uses in any industrial setting.
Mezzanines are engineered systems that have a variety of applications including:
It is important to inspect your racking periodically and to address any damage. Racking is an engineered, industrial product that can be damaged by forklifts. Stated rack capacities assume that rack is not damaged. Therefore, when rack is damaged it loses capacity to hold the loads it was designed to support thereby risking collapse and harm to employees, product, and your building.
If racking is damaged, the damaged component can be replaced or a repair kit can be utilized to address the damage. Typically, it is faster, cheaper, and causes less interruption to your operation to utilize repair kits. There are many engineering and installation considerations when replacing or repairing rack, so this activity should be completed by professionals.
Efficient Storage Solutions can:
Adding protection items to your racking system is a must to avoid major damages to the main structure.
Typical rack protection items include:
Pick modules are multi-level engineered systems made from racking or shelving. They are designed to maximize the cube space and minimize the floor space required to efficiently store product for easy picking, put-away, and conveyance to a shipping area. There are many ways to configure a pick module; common formats include:
Efficient Storage Solutions has decades of experience designing and implementing pick modules. Further, we can design, provide, and install the lighting and sprinkler systems incorporated into pick modules.
Case Flow or Carton Flow Rack is a First-In/First-Out system for case, tote, and piece-picking applications. This type of storage allows cartons to glide from the back loading aisle to the front picking aisle. Carton Flow Rack can accommodate cartons with consistent or varying widths.
Pallet flow rack utilizes gravity to move pallets from the put-away aisle to the pick aisle in this First-In/First-Out (FIFO) system. Pallets are loaded in one end of the system and move at a controlled pace to the opposite side.
Ideal for cold storage, food manufacturers, high volume distribution or storage of goods, this system is optimal for holding and shipping in warehouses where pallets need to be removed quickly.
Pushback racking is a popular Last-In/First-Out (LIFO) pallet storage solution. Pallets are loaded from the forklift aisle and each successive pallet “pushes back” the pallet(s) already loaded into the racking. Pallets are loaded onto carts which have wheels. The carts are supported by “rails” which provide the appropriate slope for the pushback system. When the pallet at the forklift aisle is removed, the remaining pallets roll forward via gravity so the reserve pallet is now presented at the forklift aisle for quick retrieval. Pushback racking is a proven system and requires minimal maintenance and maximizes warehouse cube space.
Drive-in racking is typically the most dense storage system at the lowest investment per pallet position. The system is Last-In/First-Out (LIFO) and is best suited for quick turning product that turn in pallet quantities or for product that will be stored long-term. While material costs are lower for drive-in racking than other types of dense storage, loading and unloading requires more time than pushback or pallet flow racking.
When pallets are accessed, the forklift “drives in” to the racking. Therefore, it is important to coordinate the design of drive-in racking with the equipment you utilize. Pallets are loaded onto angle “drive-in rails” and pallets are supported only from the edge. Because of this, it is important to use quality pallets and design the drive-in system for the pallet types to be stored.
This is the most popular type of pallet racking. Selective racking allows 100% access to every pallet as each pallet faces an aisle. Selective racking can be easily reconfigured to accommodate changing needs.
Selective Rack is not the most dense type of storage, but it provides the greatest access to each pallet stored. Pushback, drive-in, and pallet flow racking are often used in the same facility as selective racking since these types of storage racking provide more density for high volume or long-term storage needs. Selective racking can be designed to handle nearly any size or weight pallet and is often used with wire decking or pallet supports to alleviate the risk a misplaced pallet will fall. Selective rack can be designed in multiple roll-formed options. Clip type teardrop style is the most popular. Selective racking can be constructed from structural steel which is more damage resistant than roll-formed racking.