Is the Quality of Racks the Only Factors that Effect the Service Time?
With the swift development of modern logistic, storage pallet racks, the most fundamental subsidiary equipment has also a higher use ratio than ever before. Pallet racks are often made out of steel material, fabricate in strong bearing capacity to hold the pressure of cargo.
Most of the time, compared with other merchandises, the fancy appearance of pallet rack is not what clients pay attention to, but the stability, durability and quality. It’s well known that every product has it’s own service life, bad thing shall happened if one keep functioning when exceed this limit, even danger to human’s life.
There are many factors will effect the time of service life, like temperature, humidity, illumination, ventilation of the warehouse. Pallet racks will rust and corrosion when they are placed in the warehouse in high humidity, which can decrease loading capacity of the racks and reduce their service time. In this case, what we should do in order to increase the service time of warehouse rack?
1. Covering protective paint in time, arrange daily inspect properly. Tighten the screws if there is any loosen. Keep the warehouse in good ventilation condition, keep away from humid air.
2. Keep racks away from over exposure from solar radiation.
3. Equip anti collision protectors and rails depending on the different type of racks.
4. Cargoes on rack should not exceed it’s weight capacity. Warehouse manager should mark the loading capacity on racks. Following the regulation of Heavy at bottom, light at top.
5. Heavy duty and high rack warehouse should come with electric stacker and operated by specialize expert. Warehouse manager should draft operating regulation and keep every stuff in warehouse strictly abide by.
