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7 Warehouse Conditions that Can Compromise Pallet Rack Integrity | Apex Safety Spotlight
Your Team is Counting on You to Deliver Safe Pallet Rack With so many moving parts in a warehouse or distribution center, it’s hard to identify every safety risk, especially when dealing with a strong, durable, heavy-duty pallet rack system. While, thankfully, rack collapses in the U.S. are extremely rare, rack-compromising damage can be a…
Warehouse Data Modeling – Critical Steps You Need to Know to Optimize Performance
Warehouse Data Modeling Tips from the Automation Experts at Apex Take your pick of analogies –plate spinning, balls in the air, tightrope walking, any of these scenarios are an apt description of a warehouse manager’s job on a daily basis. There’s a constant, precise balance that makes the facility function, and yet it is still…
It’s a Long, Long Road… Shorten the Trip with Rack & Automated Conveyor Integration
4 Creative Ways to Integrate Conveyor Within Your Pallet Rack System It’s hard to beat the effectiveness of automated conveyor systems to move inventory throughout your facility quickly. Conveyor construction and design are so accommodating that you can find warehouse conveyors running linearly, connecting mezzanine levels, spiraling up and down, and suspended overhead. While your…
Prevent Disaster –Tips to Address Pallet Rack Damage & Improve Warehouse Safety
Prevent Disaster –Tips to Address Pallet Rack Damage & Improve Warehouse Safety Per RMI, pallet rack systems are often exposed to product loads more than ten times the weight of the pallet rack system itself –so to say that a lot is riding on your pallet racking would not be an overstatement. Additionally, even under…
Is It Shelving or Pallet Racking & What’s the Difference?
Finding the Right Storage Solution – Pallet Racking vs. Shelving Warehouse space is tight these days for a myriad of reasons. If you’re looking to get inventory and supplies off the floor and into a safer, more efficient storage solution, the good news is you have options. Shelving uses vertical space, creating open floor space…
A Close Look at Narrow Aisle Warehouse Design
A Deep-Dive on VNA, Narrow Aisle & Double-Deep Warehouse Design What difference can a couple of feet make? Well, a lot when it comes to warehouse space configuration. Narrow aisle and very narrow aisle configurations are separated by just a few feet, but the gap between them in terms of application, cost, and efficiency can…
How Do the New Pallet Rack Fire Codes Affect Your Rack Design?
NFPA 13 – Updated Pallet Rack Fire Codes Take Aim at Warehouse Safety The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) is a trusted global organization that issues fire codes and safety recommendations followed by warehouse design and installation crews. In 2020, there were approximately 1450 fires reported at warehouse properties amounting to over $283 million in…
3 Steps to Address Pallet Rack Rust | Apex Safety Spotlight
Preventing & Mitigating Pallet Rack Rust As Kryptonite is to the Man of Steel, so is rust to your steel pallet racking system. While seemingly strong and nearly impervious… even able to withstand an occasional altercation with a forklift, your pallet racking has inherent vulnerabilities. Rust is the enemy that must be stopped in its…
Optimize High-Density Storage & Order Picking with a Single Solution – Try a Pick Tunnel
Customize Your Pick Tunnel with These Expert Tips Take two costly features of your warehouse operation and combine them into one cost-effective solution… that’s what a pick tunnel delivers. Pick tunnels combine single or case-pick items on a floor level with replenishment stock storage above. This design takes labor-intensive order picking and minimizes the time…
The Perfect Fit – Pallet Rack Height Considerations & Precautions
Tips to Maximize Your Vertical Space with Custom-Fit Pallet Rack If you build it, pallet positions will come. Ok, that might be a stretch, but isn’t that the goal –to stretch your operating capital? Paying for underutilized cube space doesn’t make much sense, particularly when you can install pallet racking to maximize your available space….
