Rack Inspections 101: Guidelines Ensure Safety, Productivity
Conducting periodic rack inspections to verify that a facility’s industrial steel storage rack complies with applicable standards are not only recommended by RMI, they’re also the best way to ensure the safety and performance of the system. Both American National ...
Why Loads Should Be Unitized Prior To Placement In Storage ...
Unitizing, or the act of aggregating one or more separate items (typically individual cases or products) into a single unit load, is typically done with a type of tie down to secure the load to the pallet prior to its ...
Key Considerations For Drive-In Rack Design, Use
Ideal for maximizing the available cube within a facility, drive-in rack is designed and engineered for highly dense storage of multiple pallets of uniform product. Because it eliminates multiple travel paths and access aisles, drive-in rack can create additional pallet ...
Sticker Shocker: Why Used Rack Is More Expensive Than You ...
Many warehouse and distribution center owners consider pallet storage rack to be a commodity; that is, all racks are created equal. Therefore, to save a few dollars, they might consider purchasing used pallet rack on the secondary market—because its less ...
12 Safety Best Practices For Drive-In Rack
Drive-in rack, engineered for highly dense storage of multiple pallets of uniform product, delivers space savings by eliminating multiple travel and access aisles. Loaded and unloaded by counterbalanced forklifts that elevate each load to its storage destination position height prior ...
The Importance Of Matching A Drive-In Rack Design To A ...
Ideal for storing multiple pallet loads of the same product, drive-in rack maximizes cubic storage space within a facility by eliminating multiple travel and access aisles. These structures are designed and engineered with upright frames, rails, and ties (but no ...
Not All Steel Is Created Equal: Why R-Mark Certification Matters
Steel is steel is steel—right? Wrong. And making that assumption when evaluating potential rack suppliers could lead to a system failure if the manufacturer uses a steel formulation that is not compatible with its production equipment. Reputable industrial steel storage ...
RMI Presents Two Education Seminars On Rack Design And Safety ...
At MODEX 2020, members of the Rack Manufacturers Institute (RMI) will present two separate on-show-floor educational sessions covering the safe design and use of industrial steel storage rack. Open to all MODEX attendees free of charge, the two sessions will ...
Drive-In Racking and Pallets: Two Key Factors Ensure A Safe ...
Engineered and constructed with upright frames and side rails upon which pallet loads of the same product are stored, the safe use of drive-in rack depends on two key pallet factors: size and structural integrity. That’s because drive-in rack allows ...
How Seismic Redundancy Makes Racks Safer
To better mitigate seismic forces and reduce the risk of a rack structure failing during an earthquake, redundancy is included in the design of racks that are to be located in earthquake-prone zones. Doing so spreads out the effect of ...