The shuttle system arose for the improvement on utility of warehouse space and compact storage of goods. This system consists of racking, shuttles and forklift.

Inform established one shuttle racking system project for CHINA TOBACCO in Hunan, and this is representative of compact storage project in domestic tobacco industry.

This project is the warehouse for storage of aging tobacco leaves, covering the area of 80,000 square meters, and is divided as 60 warehouses, adopting the storage model of shuttle + forklift. This project has 100,000 positions, and inbound and outbound in large batches on schedule.

Shuttle system is compact storage system which is applied to carrying pallets from inbound to outbound end in work flow, and arranging pallet at planned equal distance.

Strengths:
1.High density storage: Comparing to common pallet racking and mobile racking, it can increase the storage by 50%
2.Cost saving: Reasonable space utilization decreases operation cost
3.Less damage on racking and goods: Comparing to traditional VNA (Very Narrow Aisle) racking, it no need forklift to drive in lanes, decreasing accident caused by human error and then the racking keep not damaged.
4.Expandable and improved performance: It is easy to arrange additional shuttles, and operating synchronously, which can meet higher efficiency for inbound and outbound tasks.

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