Posted By Martin Taylor
One for warehousing experts today.

We have an area where we stack electrical goods - washers - fridges - that sort of thing.

Our warehouse team are looking for some form of curtain that we can pitch between the building columns to prevent the possibility of products in one area falling into another.

Does such a product exist? Does anybody have experience of this type of solution?

thanks

Martin

Posted By andy.c.
Martin

Agree with the above, there are many different solutions on the market for separation,however this will not stop a fall.
I am presuming these are new products in which case your handling must come under scrutiny if you are having frequent "falls"
just for starters,
1 are you following recomended stacking heights
2 if using clamp trucks is the pressure set or selected correctly
3 are any appliances which the packaging is broken left at ground level
in my experiance poor handling results in the majority of appliance falls and until you address this, an exspensive curtain will only contain not prevent

regards
Andy

Posted By Juan Carlos Arias
I had some problems in the past with falling items and pallets from the racking. after closer investigation, we came to the conclusion that the gap in between the racking (back to back), despite adhering to guidelines, was a bit limited. As such, we increased the gap by another 5 cm and it really made a difference. It was not cheap, but certainly worthwhile.

I would also say that FLT driver's capabilities & knowledge also play a huge part.