FEATURE
INCORPORATING COLD CHAIN
control, or by an interface with the warehouse management system. An access aisle is created at the push of a button.
Safety measures include photoelectric beams down the length of each base and across the front of each mobile bank, with additional emergency stops. To move one or multiple bases takes approximately one minute and 20 seconds. Mobiles are designed to give lighting signals so that the lights come on only in open aisles. This results in energy savings, as each light
produces heat that must be removed by the refrigeration system.
The first installation The first phase of the Grabouw facility stores 2 504 pallets on a floor footprint of 40.3m × 33.8m, or 1.84 pallets per square metre. The possibility of pallets breaking was removed by using a pallet support or saddle beams in the middle of each pallet slot. These were painted yellow to assist with pallet placement, especially A mobile base.
Mobile racking two pallets high in a South African fruit store for better pallet access.
Pallet support beams are important, as most South African fruit pallets are disposable.
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