(Updated for 2021) 5 essential interventions to create a safer battery charging room Electric forklift trucks bring many benefits to the warehouse. The environment becomes cleaner and environmental noise is substantially reduced. Besides, in many European countries it is no longer permitted to drive...
More and more we see forklift- and warehouse trucks being equipped with systems that automatically reduce the speed of the truck, for example when cornering. One manufacturer calls it "curve control" or "curve speed control", the other uses "Curve Assistant”. The operation is broadly more or less...
Warehouse square meters are expensive. In logistics and materials handling , where margins are often small, it is particularly important to utilize space optimally and the benefit of a compact and manoeuvrable forklift truck is indispensable. However, warehouse managers often face a dilemma: do we...
(Updated for 2021) It is the indispensable work horse during the loading and unloading in our distribution centres and warehouses; the electric pallet truck. Unfortunately, that same pallet truck has been involved in many (near) accidents during those operations. A foot gets pinched, a pallet nearly...
In some countries it is required by law, but in daily practice we tend to skip it: the daily check of our forklift and warehouse trucks. It makes really good business sense to verify at least periodically if our materials handling equipment is in good shape. The check has several purposes. On one...
When we buy a car – new or pre-owned – we do not just consider the costs, energy consumption or design. We also seek comfort. We want to drive comfortably and wish to arrive at our destination rested. Why would this be different when we purchase a reach truck for example? Naturally, also in this...
To a layman a picking process can seem chaotic. The orderpickers drive like busy bees in an apparently chaotic way through the warehouse. However, like with bees, behind the tasks of each orderpicker lies a mature strategy. Only the shortest possible route can reduce picking costs to a minimum. S...
Easy does it. This is also valid in materials handling. Besides that, large efficiency improvements are easily achieved in logistic processes. Let’s have a look at the barcode scanner, for example. It was not long ago when orderpickers walked or drove around the warehouse with a paper picklist in...
The average height of standard pallet racking is about 4 metres. In these kind of warehouses we mostly see standard forklift trucks storing or retrieving pallets. The average turnover is low and the aisle width is comfortably large. However, in a high bay warehouse , workers could be putting pallets...
