A warehouse is only as good and efficient as the equipment used inside of it. You could have a 100,000 square foot warehouse, but if you don’t have the equipment to store, move and manipulate your products and inventory or whatever it is you are storing, then much of that area is going to go to waste. Warehouse equipment allows for the efficient and easy storage of the merchandise or inventory needing storage. Space is at a premium, real estate is expensive, so you need the right kind of equipment that will help get the maximum efficiency out of your warehouse. Keep reading to learn the essentials of warehouse equipment.
Industrial Shelving
So you have this great warehouse space, and you are wondering how to use it the most efficiently. The key to warehouse efficiency is to think in terms of three dimensions. Your storage space is not limited to the square footage but the cubic footage. This means maximizing the use of the vertical space offered by the warehouse (This should also be taken into account when renting or purchasing a warehousing facility.)
Industrial shelving is a type of warehouse equipment that enables you to maximize the usefulness of your warehouse in three dimensions. Industrial shelving comes in a variety of different types. The most commonly used type in a warehouse is shelving designed to store and stack pallets.
Hand Trucks and Pallet Jacks
Speaking of pallets. Without hand trucks and pallet jacks, you aren’t going to be able to get the stuff you want to store on the shelving if you cant get it there. Pallet jacks and hand trucks are a type of warehouse equipment used primarily for the purpose of transporting large, heavy objects and pallet stacks to where they need to be. Without them, your warehouse will be of little use.
Perhaps the most commonly utilized warehouse equipment is the trusty old forklift. The forklift has been vital toForklifts are the backbone of warehouse equipment.the size of pallets and the stuff they hold has continued to grow along with the size of warehouses themselves, forklifts have become ven more necessary than ever. While the standard pallet jack is good for moving a lot of merchandise around by hand, sometimes the size and weight of the product or merchandise is just too large to be easily manipulated without the aid of a forklift. Designed to squeeze into the tight aisles of a warehouse, the forklift also gives workers the ability to safely lift large and heavy loads to shelving heights that the pallet jack cannot.
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