Industrial warehouse racking
Picking shelving
Picking shelving is hand-loaded storage for cases, cartons and loose items, set at heights an operator reaches without a truck. It usually works alongside pallet racking rather than instead of it, serving the pick face while the racking holds the reserve, and Rejuva supplies and installs both.
What picking shelving is
Picking shelving, also called picking racks, holds goods that are picked by hand rather than moved by the pallet: boxed stock, packaged goods, textiles, spares and small parts. Items are taken straight from the shelf, so the whole system is built around reach, sight lines and how quickly an operator can work a run rather than around pallet weight.
Ranges run from light-duty shelving for small parts up to heavy-duty shelving carrying substantial loads per level, and multi-level structures with walkways can stack several picking floors into the height of a warehouse. In most buildings picking shelving and pallet racking are designed together, with the racking above or behind holding the reserve stock that replenishes the pick face.
Picking shelving and dynamic picking shelving
Dynamic picking shelving uses inclined rollers, so cases fed in at the back travel to the pick face on their own and stock rotates in order. Static picking shelving is loaded and picked by hand from the same side. Neither is better than the other: dynamic suits a high-volume face with strict rotation, static suits a wide range picked at a steadier rate, and many operations run both in the same building.
What picking shelving gives you
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Height put to work
Shelving uses the vertical space above a pick face that would otherwise be air, which holds down the floor area the picking operation needs.
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Built to what you store
Shelf pitch, depth and duty are set from the goods themselves, so light parts and heavy cases can sit in the same run without either being badly served.
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Quick to pick from
Goods are taken directly from the shelf with no truck and no handling equipment between the operator and the stock, which is what keeps the pick rate up.
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Cost in proportion
Compared with automating a pick face, shelving is a modest outlay, and most of what it returns comes from shorter travel and fewer mis-picks.
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Extended as you grow
Bays are added, levels repositioned and runs extended as the range changes, so the pick face follows the business rather than being rebuilt around it.
Where picking shelving is used
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Warehousing
The pick face of a conventional warehouse, replenished from pallet racking held above or behind it.
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Retail and e-commerce
Wide ranges in small quantities, where the constraint is finding and picking the right item rather than moving weight.
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Manufacturing
Components, parts and consumables held in order beside the line, so production is not waiting on a search.
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Distribution centres
High-volume order assembly, where the layout of the pick face decides how far anybody walks per order.
Racking services, from first survey to buy-back
Racking is not only bought. It has to be installed to the design, inspected while it is in use, repaired when it is hit, and moved or sold when the operation changes.
Racking systems we design and install
Every system sits somewhere on one trade-off: selectivity, meaning you can reach any pallet at any time, against density, meaning how many pallets fit into the same floor area.
Have a project in mind?
Describe what needs to happen in the building and we will come back with a proposed approach, the specialist who would carry it out and a budget you can work with.