Effectively utilise all the available space in your warehouse through the usage of overhead space in order to achieve an increase in usable warehousing whilst maintaining the same footprint.

This is what integrated materials handling calls multiple flooring. By using a mezzanine floor usable warehouse space can be significantly increased without incurring all the costs that accompany building a new warehouse or building warehouse extensions. Warehouse operations can significantly increase the amount of storage, handling, production and automation through inserting a number of levels.

How does this work?

Integrated materials handling allows a box or product to be scanned and automatically assigned to the correct level. The automated system then manages using a mixed floor system, efficiently using each floor to store, manage and despatch products.

What’s the benefit?

Multiple flooring is one of the most efficient ways of increasing utilisation of your warehouse. It increases usable space and is simple to manage. Using a multiple flooring option also prevents any difficulties in communication that may occur between two separate warehouse operations and prevents any duplication costs such as administration, security etc.

The success.

Keymas recently worked with a company that used a multiple flooring system to effectively combine two warehouse operations under one roof. This meant that the costs of running two independent warehouses were cut to operate one warehouse utilising multiple floors.

For more information about multiple flooring visit www.keymas.co.uk/mezzanine_floors

In light of the projected financial and business climate many warehouses and distribution centre’s will be looking to maintenance to successfully equip their current warehouse and conveyor systems for the next few years. Guaranteeing the successful operation of the warehouse and avoiding any unexpected costs or delays is essential considering no company wants to have to pay breakdown costs or delay operations in the current climate.

Investing in long term maintenance provision is as cost effective as you can get and fits a pattern of spending applicable in these times, no large outlays, no capital expenditure and a successfully operating system, what more can you ask for. Many companies will look to engage new and innovative companies to provide maintenance on their system, and provide upgrades allowing expandability in a new way.

Keymas provide maintenance and support packages for warehouse and distribution centre systems. This includes conveyors, AGV’s, WMS, control and applications for pallet, tote and box systems.

Visit www.keymas.co.uk/support for more information.