Metalrax Mobile Shelving can be equally beneficial in a small room with a modest document management system, a large County Council Records Office storing archival material or a museum repository storing anything from a minute crustacean to a walrus or a grand piano.
The two main criteria for considering a mobile shelving solution are maximising the available floor area or compacting the storage system into a restricted space. Compared to static shelving, Metalrax Mobile Shelving can increase capacity by up to 100% or alternatively save up to 45% of the floor space occupied by the equivalent quantity of static shelving bays. Storage units, mounted onto mobile bases are propelled along fixed tracks to open up access gangways. A triple spoked hand-wheel is connected through a simple geared sprocket to the drive shaft, which requires a minimum of effort to move a fully loaded mobile shelving base.
Access to individual shelving bays can be restricted, but by incorporating additional gangways, a trade off between capacity and accessibility can be achieved. In some hospital X-ray departments the need to have constant access to more than one picking face dictated that the layout should incorporate more than one picking aisle which in itself was wider than normal. This meant that two or more operatives could be active in the same gangway.
Smaller installations of mobile shelving can be sited locally within the office environment to improve document management. The tracks can be incorporated into sectional panels that can be re-positioned, extended or removed making Metalrax Mobile Shelving a future proof storage option. Existing static installations can be adapted to enable the shelving to be fitted onto mobile bases thereby avoiding the expense of relocation. So if you have outgrown your present storage facility, or you are planning a new one, consider Metalrax Mobile Shelving.
As an ISO 9001 accredited company and a founder member of the Storage Equipment Manufacturers Association (S.E.M.A.) Metalrax promote and adhere to the design standards set out in the Association's Interim Code of Practice for mobile shelving.
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