Feasibility study racking

Description

Cargill’s facility in Malchin stores finished products, raw materials and semi finished goods related to pectin production.

Opportunities

The site in Malchin has a limited free height of 5 meter and currently all products are stored on the floor. Cargill wants to optimize their storage capacity by installing a racking solution. They want to know; what is the maximum storage capacity of the building, what are the costs of installing a racking solution and if the current floor can meet the stability requirements for a racking solution.

Solution

To define a potential racking layout with costs and a stability calculation several steps were taken;

• Analyze current flows and volumes
• Set up several new layout options with pro’s and con’s
• Adjust layout based on operational feedback from Cargill
• Set up final drawing
• Calculate final storage capacity (based on different pallet sizes and heights) and investment costs
• Perform a stability check based on the floor characteristics and the final racking solution

Benefits

• With the outcome of this study Cargill had a complete picture with the potential storage capacity with a racking solution with a detailed lay out and investments costs.
• They know that the stability calculations doesn’t give any issues.