Five Reasons to Consider Mobilizing Your Industrial Shelving

Industrial Shelving is the storage solution typically used in warehouses, distribution centers, manufacturing facilities, small parts storage rooms and even coolers. BUT, there is a way to make better use of this industrial shelving and that is by placing it on mobile carriages and making it MOVE. Here are the top five reasons to consider mobile shelving for your facility:

5. Mobile shelving is definitely not just for large warehouses or distribution centers. Some of the best uses include small parts and tool storage for maintenance departments.

At Aveva® Drug Delivery Systems, parts necessary for maintenance were being stored throughout individual departments in a 117,000 sq. ft. facility. If a part was needed in one department and it was not in the local storage area, it resulted in loss of valuable production and extended downtime. ActivRAC was used as a solution to consolidate individual departments into one space and create visibility to over 10,000 parts in order to better service the needs of each department.

4. You can store pretty much anything on mobile shelving. With weight limits that range from 7,000 lbs to 30,000 lbs you can mobilize your small and lightweight tools, or even large car parts, motorcycles or bulk supplies and heavy materials.

3. You can use mobile shelving in any industrial storage environment, from coolers (think of temperature controlled items like foods and beverages or certain pharmaceuticals) to specialized cantilever applications and work-in-progress on the production floor.

2.  Going mobile with your industrial shelving can be less expensive than you think.

	The top mount rail used with ActivRAC is anchored right into the unfinished concrete, which means no raised floor or grouting is needed to complete your mobilized storage installation. With traditional compact storage solutions, the rail system often requires grouting, or raised flooring.
	You don’t need to purchase new shelving to implement a mobile solution. Racking that you already own can be placed onto the mobile carriages, which then move along the installed rail. If you need to purchase new racking, ActivRAC carriages can work with whatever racking fits your specific needs.

1. Mobile shelving frees up space or increases storage capacity.

And because this ultimately saves YOU money, this is, plain and simple, the number one reason to choose mobile industrial shelving as your storage solution.

Originally posted by Julie Weber, Spacesaver.com