Selective Pallet Racking & Shelving Storage Solution for 500 Metric Ton Fabric Rolls and Yarn Manufacturers
Summary
Craftsman Storage delivered G+2 Selective Pallet Racking with custom cage pallets for yarn bags and fabric rolls, plus Shelving for trim boxes, achieving 2,070 yarn bag, 3,375 fabric roll, and 1,050-box capacity for a Tirupur knitwear exporter in 8 weeks.
About the Client
Static SPR and Shelving Storage Solution for Fabric Rolls and YarnsCustomer is one of the leading and established manufacturers & Exporter of various types of knitted garments. They are located in Tirupur, a place well known for knitwear businesses. They export their garments to Europe, the Middle East, the USA, & Canada.
The Challenge
The requirement was to store the raw material and semi-finished goods inside their manufacturing premise close to their knitting line. Their conventional method of ground stacking possessed a serious threat to accessibility & accountability because of the scattered material occupancy on the floor and also our client was facing a challenge to meet the dispatch requirements of 30 MT per day. A storage solution to house 500 MT of material out of which 50% was allocated for RM and the remaining for SFG respectively was planned.
SKU
- Fabric Rolls - 2100mm in length and 500 mm (In Diameter)
- Yarn box - 640 mm x 460 mm x 520 mm
- Trims and Label boxes - 340 mm x 410 mm x 265 mm
- Bulk polythene bags - 500 mm x 500 mm x 400 mm
What solution did Craftsman Storage provide?
- Our Storage Solutions was offered to standardize the bulk goods in a custom made cage pallet designed to store the incoming RM in the form of YARN bags/Semi-finished fabrics through palletized arrangement on the G+2Selective Pallet Racking system.
- The processed knitting rolls from knitting lines of various diameters, individual yarn cone boxes, and trims were provisioned to store directly on the shelving levels.
- This combination of SPR and shelving storage together achieved a total of 2070 yarn bag capacity, 3375 fabric roll capacity, and shelving for 1050 boxes capacity, meeting the customer's requirement of storing and handling the 500 Tonnes of goods.
How do Craftsman Storage solutions benefit customers?
The entire project scope of Design, Manufacturing, and erection was done under a single channel of Craftsman Automation Limited and the project was handed over within 8 weeks. The custom-made racking setup for both YARN & FABRIC offered them better selectivity and maximized the storage volume by vertical height optimization. Storing knitting rolls over the tailor-made shelving system enabled them to segregate rolls of various diameters with an improved retrieval time.
