New Type Industrial Storage Metal Drive-in Warehouse Rack with High Quality

High-Density Drive In Drive Through Pallet Rack System for Homogeneous Products

Drive-in pallet rack system is a high-density storage solution that makes the best use of available space for storage by eliminating extra working aisles. Every lane in the system is served as storing space as well as an operating aisle for forklifts.

Drive-in pallet rack is made up of easy-to-assemble and easy-to-reset modular structure, making it easy to maintain and adjust to a new configuration.

In drive-in pallet rack system, one end is closed and forklifts have to drive into and off the system through the same open end, leading to LIFO storing and retrieving order. Besides, there is a similar pallet rack system called drive-through pallet rack system in which both end are open, and one is the entrance and the other is used as exit. Thus, the first stored pallet can also be the first one out that is FIFO order.

Drive in pallet rack system is an optimal choice for warehouses with large volumes of homogeneous products for which selectivity is not necessary but storage density is foremost.

Features of Drive-in Pallet Rack System:

• High-density storage, aisles are reduced for more storage space;

• First in, last out inventory management;

• Minimal investment, the structure is simple;

• Limited stock rotation, forklifts have to drive into the system for storage and retrieval;

• Density is prior to selectivity;

• Suitable for storing a large number of homogeneous products that are not time sensitive;

Material handling equipment: counterbalance forklift truck

Maintenance: Since forklift operators need to drive inside the racking system directly, collision is prone to happen. Hence, it requires more frequent inspection than other systems. The whole frame, anchors and pallet rails are key points for the check.

Advantages of Drive-in Pallet Rack System:

• Provides certain product mixes with high storage density;

• Compared with other high-density storage solutions, the capital investment is relatively low;

• Realizes efficient storage, since racks are aligned back to back without aisles between them;

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Limitations of Drive-in Pallet Rack System:

• Inflexible, does not allow for SKU increase

• Possible low storage utilization (typically 50% of positions used)

• Low productivity (30% slower than alternative systems)

• Requires standardized pallets

• Risk of rack damage by fork trucks

• LIFO – Last In First Out

• Difficult to rotate time-sensitive products

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Applications of Drive Pallet Rack System:

• Cold Storage

• Food & Beverage

• Grocery

• Manufacturers with limited SKU counts

• Producers with limited product variation, date-segregated production or batch production

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