As well as providing solutions to all of your storage and workshop problems, Spaceway is a specialist in analysing and suggesting improvements in the way you pick your products.

A common theme throughout many of these solutions is bringing the product to the picker. This results in shorter picking routes, greater picking accuracy and faster throughput.

The principle is simple, why build miles of shelving, with repeated products elongating your picking route? Instead, using carton live to store those repeated products behind each other and cut down drastically on the time spent walking to locate and pick.

We have worked for many years with leading German manufacturer BITO, who manufacture a wide range of carton live and pallet live systems, as well as miniload automated bin stores.

These systems are not only the preserve of large multi_national corporations, some of our smaller customers have seen huge benefits from installing small scale versions, using the same principles:

One example of this is retro_fitting carton live shelving into existing pallet racking. It is a great solution for improving on the traditional pallet based distribution warehouse, and is very cost effective.

In the example shown here, the picker has 25 different products available to pick in one bay of 2.7 m wide pallet racking, with plenty of stock behind ready to roll forward to replace the front location.

Compare this to the picking capacity of the usual two pallets on the floor, with maybe a single shelf above!

In a typical four bay double entry run, you could achieve 100 picking lanes, compared to 16 pallets on the floor and maybe 20 products above.

Incorporate push_back pallet racking above, and you can even segregate your pickers from the fork
lift activity on the other side of the rack, improving safety at the same time!

This system also offers guaranteed FIFO (first in, first out) picking, ideal for date sensitive or batch controlled products.

We are one of the few UK distributors to design and construct a Picking Tunnel, using pallet live overhead with carton live below to segregate picking activity and maximise on space utilisation:

We can incorporate conveyors or specialist picking trolleys to really help speed up your picking process. We also provide BITO totes and containers to further improve the way you pick.

Contact us to discuss your requirements; we have plenty of reference sites where you can see these systems in action. Improve your picking with Spaceway!

Trethowans

As Spaceway was able to install pedestrian walkways rather than mezzanine floors, we have not only saved on installation costs but also reduced the cost of our ongoing business rates. We have now been able to store all 30,000 files in one location. It has been a huge project but we are thrilled with the outcome.

Julie Cummings
Trethowans Solicitors

We are able to offer a comprehensive range of accessories to compliment our range of Pallet Racking and Shelving Systems ...More