Pallet Storage and Picking Optimization Lecture Transcript

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solution is a racking configuration and a vehicle configuration and these are the options and I hope you'll have picked up by now. I always try to go from the simplest least complex, least expensive, most flexible to the other end. I always there. That's our approach. If you can solve it with a counterbalanced lift truck, I'd rather do that than solve it with an automated storage retrieval machine. That's our approach for a lot of different reasons. We're going to walk through these different options. Option number one is a walkie stacker. What is unique about a walkie stacker? (32:59): You walk behind it so it's not very expensive and it will stack product. Can you unload a truck with it? Can you put product away with it? Yes. Can you retrieve product with it? Can you load a truck with it? Yes, so with the same vehicle I can do all of the interleaving steps we talked about yesterday in terms of expense and productivity and flexibility. This is a pretty good place to start. What's the limitation? The stack height only going to be two, maybe three high, but if you've got short distances and the ceiling is not very high anyway, this may be a very good S and this may be 3, 4, 5, 6, $7,000, something in that range. Next option is a counterbalanced lift truck. Question number one, can you unload a truck with it? Can you put product away with it? Retrieve product, load a truck. Yes. Okay. That's why we start with these first two so I can do all of that with one move. Never have to make a handoff. What is the relationship between handoffs and performance inverse? Now, why is a counterbalance truck called a counterbalance truck? It's got this big weight back here so that when this pallet is 15 feet up in the air without that weight back there, what would happen right there? That's what would happen. What's the disadvantage of a counterbalance truck? (34:34): The size that counterbalance takes up a lot of room. Okay, just ask Charles Barkley. He had a big counterbalance, but man, he could get some rebounds. He took up so much space that's good. In basketball in a warehouse that may not be such a good idea. The turning radius will probably going to require us to operate in an aisle between 10 and 14 feet wide depending on the product. Now there's some things we can do about that though. There are standup counterbalance trucks that might work just as well. Also, I can handle one, two loads at a time. I don't have to handle just one load at a time. (35:14): There are attachments I can put on the lift truck to get even better utilization of the vehicle. It could be for handling carpet backing or drums, anything you want to handle. Pretty much there's an attachment to allow a lift truck to handle it. The other cool innovation in lift trucks recently is fleet management where there are companies who will come in and they'll help you figure out vehicle by vehicle when it needs to be replaced and what it needs to be replaced with. Also, some of the vehicles today will run off a GPS inside the building so you can see at any point in time what vehicle is where and exactly what it's doing and be able to divert it

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