Modernisation of a warehouse can increase performance and service life . Edward Hutchison , Managing Director of BITO Storage Systems asks : have you considered retrofitting existing pallet racking ?
Retrofitting advantage for order picking
Modernisation of a warehouse can increase performance and service life . Edward Hutchison , Managing Director of BITO Storage Systems asks : have you considered retrofitting existing pallet racking ?
As logistics operations and warehouses grow older , not only does the technology contained within wear out , incurring more regular downtime , it also naturally becomes outdated – unable to keep pace with modern requirements driven by omnichannel logistics , e-commerce , the demand for small order sizes and handling faster order picking speeds .
It makes sense to plan modernisation in good time , before a system or equipment reaches service life expiry . For those concerned about the cost and convenience of a major replacement or modernisation programme , consider retrofitting .
Modernisation offers the opportunity to adapt intralogistics systems to meet new requirements and to make them more efficient and reliable . This means maintaining the basic structure of a warehouse in terms of storage zones , layout , conveyor and storage systems , but modernising individual items of materials equipment and creating new processes . This will increase performance and improve overall warehouse system availability . Sometimes the modernisation of a warehouse can even avoid the need to construct a new building or an expensive extension of an existing facility .
A retrofit is a refurbishment and modernisation of existing intralogistics systems . The advantages of retrofitting include lower planning and implementation costs compared to
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