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Solving Parts Storage Problems in Your Auto Dealership with a Motorized Vertical Shuttle
Whether your dealership specializes in automobiles, heavy equipment, or recreational vehicles, there are many different items you need to store such as small parts, specialized tools, and bulky items. Over the years your modular drawer cabinets, pallet racks, and bin shelving have served their purpose, but now they have reached their storage capacity and you are searching for ways to maximize your floor space or expand your building. Or, perhaps you don’t need to expand your building, but need a way to help organize your parts so personnel can find parts quicker to improve customer service and mechanic productivity. Well there is one solution that will solve both of these problems at once, a Remstar Vertical Parts Storage Shuttle (also known as a vertical lift module or VLM).
Vertical Parts Storage Shuttles Maximizes Your Parts Room Floor Space
Traditional small parts bin shelving is becoming a thing of the past in the automotive dealer service departments because it takes up too much floor space, it’s hard to find parts quickly, and its poor ergonomic design. For example, 60 plastic parts bins (7 feet high) would only yield 420 cubic feet of usable storage space but they would occupy a massive 840 square feet of floor space; compared to a 30 foot high vertical parts storage shuttle that yields 885 cubic feet of usable parts storage space. The vertical parts storage lift has twice the cubic feet of storage and only uses 129 square feet of floor space, which is an 85% saving in floor space compared to parts bin shelving (watch automotive parts storage video viewing time 2 minutes 27 seconds). If you are wondering how the vertical parts storage shuttle can accomplish storing so many parts in so little floor space, the answer is simple - maximizing your parts room storage cube. The vertical parts storage shuttle uses overhead air space to maximize the storage cube in your parts room, turning unused overhead air space into productive parts storage space.
Vertical Parts Storage Shuttles Increase Productivity of Parts Room Personnel
If parts room employees are spending the majority of their time walking through the maze of shelving rows, climbing shelves, and bending over on their hands and knees searching for parts, they are wasting time. Time spent searching for parts affects your customer’s attitude towards your dealership and your mechanic’s time when they have to wait for parts. Vertical parts storage shuttles will increase parts room personnel’s productivity and accuracy, making mechanics more productive, customers happier, and your dealership more profitable (watch automotive parts storage video viewing time one and a half minutes).
How Automotive Vertical Parts Storage Shuttles Work
The vertical parts storage shuttle stores all your parts and inventory, big, small, and everything in between on vertical storage trays inside the parts storage machine. These trays can be partitioned for small parts like the inside of a modular drawer or used like a shelf for medium and larger sized inventory. When parts room personnel need a part, they just key in the part number or description into the parts storage software keypad controller. The storage shuttle has a motorized lift platform that moves up and down inside the machine and pulls requested parts trays from their storage location and brings the parts storage tray to an ergonomic waist high work counter for easy picking (view vertical parts storage photos).
Let Us Help You Maximize Your Storage Space and Parts Room Productivity
Southwest Solutions Group specializes in solving storage dilemmas that hamper worker productivity and storage space efficiency. These inefficiencies drive up the cost of doing business and negatively impact your profits. Contact us today at 1-800-803-1083 for a free storage assessment of your parts room storage areas. We will plan and design a Remstar Vertical Parts Storage Shuttle to maximize the floor space and productivity of your automotive service department.
