Pairing Pallets and Racking
Before making any rack purchase, it’s important to understand the type and condition of your pallets. You’ve got a big investment in your racking system, so you want to get it right. One of the biggest considerations when choosing your ...
Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) and Your Aisles
A great productivity enhancer, make sure your facility is prepared for the addition of AGVs. Once you’ve made the decision to add AGVs to your facility and after finding the right partner, identifying the pain points the equipment will solve, ...
Retrofitting Racks for Individualized Picking
The nature of picking is changing and your operations may need to change with it. With the explosion of ecommerce over the past few years, warehouses that were not set up for picking eaches must find configurations that allow picking ...
Planning Your Rack System
With the right combination of equipment, you can meet your varied customers’ needs. The complexity of warehousing operations has been on a steady increase for the past decade or so. Now add in the pandemic and explosive demand for ecommerce, ...
Planning and Using Industrial Steel Storage Racks: What you need ...
As the state of warehousing and distribution evolves, so too does the equipment that supports operations. To keep up with those changes, the MHI’s Rack Manufacturers Institute (RMI) has compiled an updated guide on considerations for the planning and use ...
Nine Benefits Of Rack Repair Kits
Pallet rack damage happens, often due to an impact from a forklift as it transports a load through the facility. Upon identification of a damaged rack section the structure should be isolated, and a qualified, professional rack engineer should be ...
How Rotationally Rigid Connections Enhance Rack Stability In Seismic Events
Depending on where a warehouse or distribution center (DC) is located within the United States, the design and engineering of its industrial steel storage rack structures may be subject to seismic requirements. As outlined in RMI’s ANSI MH16.1: Specification for ...
Is It Okay To Cut Pallet Rack Uprights?
Sometimes a rack owner will decide to relocate an existing pallet rack structure to a different location within the same facility — only to discover that the new space has a lower ceiling height than the original site. If only ...
Use These Specifications To Ensure The Safest Stairway Design For ...
To access overhead work areas for picking—such as rack supported platforms, elevated work platforms, and pick modules—workers must climb one or more flights of stairs. Because these areas are above floor level, it is important to protect these associates from ...
How To Safely Access Pallets When Loading And Removing From ...
As more operations add pick modules, rack supported platforms, and elevated work platforms to increase the throughput and capacity of their picking zones, facility owners need to be aware of safety requirements for fall prevention measures that protect workers. These ...