Amazingly, common warehousing methods use up only about 40% of the total obtainable space for storage of parts or goods, the remainder is allocated for aisles. Piling up the boxes, bags or tins of the materials in their greatest heights does not alleviate much the wastage of space. This may be acceptable when there is not much materials to store, but when space is lacking, solutions have been ordinarily found in pallet racking or building storage mezzanines. Like the notion of high-rises that occupy little ground space but much of it aloft, vertical storage has been a sufficient solution, at least until recently.
Mobile storage. The two dominant difficulties of storage management have ever been storage space and materials access. Vertical storage uses the existing space higher than ground level, mostly empty in most conventional warehousing ways. However, there is still the largely unused ‘road system’ for getting to and retrieving materials, the aisles. The warehouse truck could only use its own space at any one time, so that the aisle spaces it is not on is wasted.
The mobile storage system moves the racks together if the passageway between them is not being utilized so that the space is not wasted. The same racks are then moved apart when needed to allow the forklift entry to the materials. In this way the space between structures or shelves are used, granting as much as 100% extra storage space. The racks or shelves are moved either manually or with mechanical assistance.
Upright carousels. Comparable in concept to the restaurant dumbwaiter or the Rolodex, vertical carousels create storage space by minimizing the requirement for mechanical transporters like a forklift. located in bins, racks or shelves easilyreadily accessed by humans, the passageway space between the carousels may be lessened, opening up additional space for storage. One benefit of this system is that the materials are always accessed at the same height level, which can be a bonus for the retrieving persons. However, vertical carousels are mostly used for small-sized parts.
Automated self-storage. This one is run by computer and eliminates the need for personal involvement, at least nearly all of the time. Because the materials are stored in uniform-sized containers and stacked in racks and pallets, loading and retrieval is done by an automated loading-retrieval forklift-like machine that takes the correct module to the person at the access window. The same machine receives the containers from the loading window for storage. So actually the machine is the storage helper with the human as the supervisor.
As space gets scarcer for storing goods in a manufacturing or selling enterprise, the quest for solutions goes on at an ever accelerating rate. The first general solution direction of vertical storage has been followed by mobile storage, both sideways and vertical, seemingly using up the alternatives so that as yet no new directions are easily foreseen. However, the search has not ended and undoubtedly we will see more revolutionary, aside from minimizing the goods themselves.
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