With the cost of property expansion or external storage provision a monumental investment for organisations, more and more are turning to clever storage solutions, to increase efficiency and help them to consolidate their inventory into the space they have.
One major solution, that can massively increase the yield of a space is the implementation of Roller Racking (also known as mobile shelving). This innovative storage system offers numerous benefits over static shelving, filing cabinets or other storage solutions.
From corporate buildings, through education (schools to universities) to Healthcare, and Museums and Heritage, roller racking is used across numerous sites to maximise the available space.
If you are looking to build a new storage area, or you are looking to enhance your existing stores then here are ten reasons roller racking could be smart choice.
1. Maximise Space Efficiency
Roller racking removes the need for multiple static aisles. The shelving only needs the minimum of a single aisle, and by allowing the shelves to push together the space taken up by aisles in traditional shelving layouts becomes useful storage space. Using this technique you can save up to 70% of the space associated with static shelving options.
2. Improve Organisation and Accessibility
With a structured, compact design and the correct labeling, roller racking makes it easy to catalogue, locate and retrieve stored items.
3. Increase Productivity
Following on from point 2, did you know that on average, professionals spend roughly 50% of their time searching for information, with an average of 18 minutes per document? Employing roller racking with a more organised system and layout means employees spend less time searching for items and more time focusing on essential tasks.
4.Enhance Security
When you specify your roller racking solution from Rackline, you can opt for shelves, drawers, cupboards or combinations of these. The cupboards and drawer units can be lockable, but additionally the roller racking carriages can also be specified with built-in locking mechanisms, which lock the units together when not in use. This provides added security for confidential documents, valuable stock, or sensitive materials.
5. Minimise Damage to Stored Items
With a selection of strong steel shelving and storage systems within the roller racking, your items are kept safe. Additionally with the ability to close the racking, you are reducing light and moisture exposure. You can even spec adaptions such as seals to reduce dust exposure.
6.Reduces Clutter and Improve Safety
Having masses of space means you can put all of your documents and items into them. This storage capacity reduces clutter in your office or collections, allowing you to remove unorganised piles of documents, instead putting them into a compact, organised, space. To see other ways to reduce clutter, see our blog here.
7. Cost-Effective
Though Roller Racking at first glance appears expensive, when you compare that to the price of adding additional space to your prmises, it becomes very cost effective. When you also offset the savings from the improved efficiency and time saved on retrieval and deposit, they actually start to look quite cheap!
8. Improves Inventory Management
Within businesses where there are a lot of moving items, such as within retail. roller racking helps in compartmentalising of items. This in turn helps business owners to more effectively keep track of their stock. Being on top of which items are in which section, also help track losses due to misplaced, removed or overlooked items.
9. Easy to Expand or Modify
The modular design of roller racking allows for easy expansion or reconfiguration as the needs of an organisation change over time. Change out cupboards for shelves, shelves for clothes rails, even add or remove carriages.
10. Tough and Hygienic Steel Structure
The powder coated steel structure of roller racking makes it ideal for a variety of environments. Shelves and surfaces are resistant to chemicals, and can be kept clean easily. The high strength of the steel structure means that you can store even heavy objects within them (see how Keele University uses our units to hold rock and mineral samples here). So roller racking is ideal for anything you can throw at it!
Find Out More
Rackline’s teams are the experts in the development of roller racking systems for any space. To discover how Roller Racking can save you space, help consolidate your inventory, and increase efficiency within your organisation, drop us a message on the form below, or call us on: 01782 770144.