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How Do Building Codes Affect Pallet Rack Design? | Apex Safety Spotlight

Breaking Down Building Codes to Build Up Safe Pallet Racking Drilling your last bolt or anchoring your last rack guard does not signal the end of your pallet rack installation. The approval from the state and or local building inspector does. It’s an important distinction that your team needs to understand before signing off on…

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7 Tips to Minimize Costly Inventory Shrinkage

Actionable Tips to Prevent Inventory Shrinkage & Improve Warehouse Safety Warehouse shrinkage is not a small matter. In fact, it can impose a significant financial burden on a warehousing or distribution center operation. Since shrinkage can occur at different stages of the process -from receiving to storage, picking, packing, and shipping, it’s essential to take…

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Process More Orders, Less Expensively — Custom Packing Stations

Streamline Order Processing & Lower Shipping Costs with Customized Packing Stations Talk about a lot of goodness packed into a single warehouse solution. Take a look at modular packing stations –streamlined, compact, optimized, and efficient! But packing stations are more than a compilation of buzzwords; they deliver measurable results by minimizing labor and equipment costs…

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Layers of Optimized Order Processing – Choose Your Pick Module

Pick Module Design & Applications  Use warehouse space more effectively, meet faster fulfillment goals, and save labor costs in the process. It’s not a dream; it’s a pick module. Pick modules integrate storage solutions such as pallet racking, carton flow, and industrial shelving with conveyors to create a highly concentrated order-picking zone. While pick modules…

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Converting Pallet Rack for Single Items — Bin Storage vs. Wire Decking

How Does Bin Storage Compare with Wire Decked Pallet Rack? Standard selective pallet racking is the universal go-to for pallet storage. The pallet rack effectively uses vertical space while providing secure and easy access to palletized stock. Wire decking is often added to create a platform that shores up poor-condition pallets, adds stability to the…

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Comparing Pallet Rack Column Guarding – Styles, Materials & Options

Getting to the Substance Behind Pallet Rack Column Guarding The majority of pallet rack damage occurs to the lower portion of upright columns, but you don’t have to leave your rack unprotected. Pallet rack column guards pay for themselves by preventing costly downtime and repairs from forklift damage. Think of the car damage that your…

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7 Warehouse Conditions that Can Compromise Pallet Rack Integrity | Apex Safety Spotlight

Your Team is Counting on You to Deliver Safe Pallet Rack With so many moving parts in a warehouse or distribution center, it’s hard to identify every safety risk, especially when dealing with a strong, durable, heavy-duty pallet rack system. While, thankfully, rack collapses in the U.S. are extremely rare, rack-compromising damage can be a…

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Warehouse Data Modeling – Critical Steps You Need to Know to Optimize Performance

Warehouse Data Modeling Tips from the Automation Experts at Apex Take your pick of analogies –plate spinning, balls in the air, tightrope walking, any of these scenarios are an apt description of a warehouse manager’s job on a daily basis. There’s a constant, precise balance that makes the facility function, and yet it is still…

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It’s a Long, Long Road… Shorten the Trip with Rack & Automated Conveyor Integration

4 Creative Ways to Integrate Conveyor Within Your Pallet Rack System It’s hard to beat the effectiveness of automated conveyor systems to move inventory throughout your facility quickly. Conveyor construction and design are so accommodating that you can find warehouse conveyors running linearly, connecting mezzanine levels, spiraling up and down, and suspended overhead. While your…

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Prevent Disaster –Tips to Address Pallet Rack Damage & Improve Warehouse Safety

Prevent Disaster –Tips to Address Pallet Rack Damage & Improve Warehouse Safety Per RMI, pallet rack systems are often exposed to product loads more than ten times the weight of the pallet rack system itself –so to say that a lot is riding on your pallet racking would not be an overstatement. Additionally, even under…

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