What types of storage racking system are suitable for automotive industry?

Update time:2021-11-06

The automotive industry was one of the first industries to use storage racking system and implement standardized warehouse management. The use of storage racking system has improved the utilization of space and efficiency in the enterprise warehouse, saving manpower and time costs, while also ensuring the safety of production.

The automotive industry warehouse is relatively complex, it needs to store a wide range of goods, such as raw materials, semi-finished auto parts, semi-finished parts and there are many kinds, such as car shells, tires etc.. So the automotive industry in the planning of warehouse storage is usually more complex, today I will take the recent completion of a large automotive company in Eurasia for example, take you to understand the automotive industry commonly used storage racking system.

Long span racking system：

Long span racking system is the most common type of storage racking system in the automotive industry warehouse. It is suitable for storing some light-weight with small goods, manual pic-up, simple structure, beautiful and generous appearance, easy and flexible assembly. Contact us to know more.

Mezzanine racking system:

Mezzanine racking system is also particularly frequent in the automotive industry, especially in the auto parts manufacturing industry. Mezzanine racking system can make full use of the height of the warehouse to improve utilization of space, and is particularly suitable for storing some manual access goods and small quantity & volume goods. Contact us to know more.

Heavy duty racking system:

Heavy duty racking system is not surprising that heavy duty racking system is used in the automotive industry as it is suitable for almost all industries and warehouse. Heavy duty racking system is often used in the automotive industry with some functional accessories such as wire met, steel laminates, back nets etc., as there are often small pieces to be stored in the automotive industry warehouses and with these accessories it is possible to prevent small pieces of racking system falling off during storage and so on. Contact us to know more.

Narrow aisle racking system:

Narrow aisle racking system saves a lot of forklift access compared to heavy duty racking system, and with special three-way stacking forklifts accessing the goods, it greatly improves the warehouse space utilization. Narrow aisle racking system is also a good choice for automotive companies who wish to make better use of their warehouse space. Contact us to know more.

Fluent racking system:

Fluent racking system also known as sliding racking system, it is often found in the automotive industry. Fluent racking system utilize the weight of goods to store goods from one side of the aisle and pick them up from the other side to achieve FIFO. It can be equipped with electronic tags for easy management of goods. Commonly used sliding containers are crates, parts boxes and cartons, suitable for large quantities of goods，short-term storage and picking. Widely used in distribution centres, assembly workshops and warehouses with a high frequency of shipments.

Gravity racking system:

Gravity racking system is a kind of pallet racking system, which is developed on the basis of the beam racking system. Compared with ordinary beam racking system, gravity racking system does not need to set aside working aisles between racking systems, but only the inlet and outlet aisles, with greater storage density and a storage space utilization rate of around 75%. Gravity racking system uses its own weight to achieve first-in-first-out storage, which is non power storage, no energy consumption, low noise, very environmentally friendly, safe and reliable.

Stacking racks:

Stacking racks also called smart racks. It is a handing and storage equipment derived from pallets. It is one of the multi-functional equipment for unit assembly, commodity storage and circulation. It needs to be used with forklifts.