Newer Solutions To Storage Questions
- Posted by admin on December 31st, 2009 filed in Business and Management
Incredibly, ordinary warehousing systems use up only about 40% of the total available space for storage of parts or goods, the rest is allotted for aisles. Piling up the cartons, bags or crates of the materials in their greatest heights does not alleviate much the use of space. This may be tolerable when there is less materials to maintain, but when space is lacking, solutions have been usually found in pallet racking or building storage mezzanines. Like the notion of high-rises that use up little ground area but a great deal of it upwards, vertical storage has been a sufficient solution, at least until recently.
Movable stowage. The twin overriding problems of storage management have ever been storage space and materials retrieval. Vertical storage uses the available space higher than ground level, commonly vacant in most conventional warehousing ways. However, there is still the mostly unused ‘road system’ for accessing and retrieving materials, the aisles. The warehouse forklift could only use its own space at any single time, so that the aisle areas it is not using is wasted.
The mobile storage concept moves the shelving closer if the passageway between them is not in use so that the space is not wasted. The appropriate racks are then moved apart when needed to permit the forklift access to the materials. In this way the space between structures or shelves are used, giving as much as 100% additional storage space. The racks or shelves are moved either manually or with machine assistance.
Vertical carousels. Similar in concept to the restaurant dumbwaiter or the Rolodex, vertical carousels add storage space by eliminating the requirement for mechanical carriers like a forklift. located in bins, racks or shelves easilyreadily accessed by humans, the passageway space between the carousels may be lessened, making additional space for storage. One advantage of this concept is that the materials are each time accessed at the same height level, which can be a bonus for the retrieving persons. On the other hand, vertical carousels are mostly used for small-sized parts.
Automated self-storage. This system is performed by computer and eliminates the need for personal intervention, at least most of the time. While the materials are placed in uniform-sized containers and stowed in racks and pallets, loading and retrieval is performed by an robotic loading-retrieval forklift-like contraption that brings the appropriate module to the person at the retrieval window. The same machine receives the containers from the loading window for storage. So in effect the machine is the storage helper with the human as the superior.
As space gets limited for storing materials in a manufacturing or selling enterprise, the quest for solutions goes on at an ever increasing rate. The first significant solution course of vertical storage has been followed by mobile storage, both sideways and vertical, seemingly exhausting the options so that as yet no new directions are easily foreseen. However, the search has not stopped and undoubtedly we will know more later on, aside from shrinking the materials themselves.
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