Carton Live Racking
As well as providing solutions to all of your storage and workshop problems, Spaceway are specialists 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 German manufacturer BITO, which 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 see 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 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!
Features
- storage according to the FIFO principle (first - first out)
- easy control of production batches and sell-by dates
- considerable reduction of travel times
- excellent overview of all references on stock
- increased productivity due to separate loading and order picking aisles
- space savings of up to 30%
- loading and retrieval can be done by automatic stacker cranes
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Spaceway supply and install all makes of pallet racking & shelving systems from the following manufacturers – Link 51, Apex Linvar, Redirack, Planned Storage Systems, Hi-lo, Dexion, BITO
Cooper Vision
“I would like to extend my warmest thanks and appreciation for the efforts you and your team have put in from the planning and design phase, right up to installation and handover. I have found all of your team to be professional and efficient throughout and this has made a major project somewhat easier to deliver. The work you have done on the racking, the offices and your assistance in some of the building clearances has been invaluable.” Andrew Hammond – Cooper Vision