Caring for Your Idle Forklift Battery
Many customers who have reduced their workforce or temporarily closed facilities are leaving their forklifts and batteries idle. The purpose of this letter is to provide instructions to maintain batteries that will be idle or out of service for more than three weeks.
To prevent damage and reduced cycle life, batteries must be fully charged prior to extended idle periods. A small amount of additional care is required to ensure each battery achieves maximum life. Due to the differences in construction of Vented Lead‐Acid VLA/Flooded batteries and NexSys Thin Plate Pure Lead/TPPL batteries, separate instructions are required.
Warehouse 101: Selecting the Right Partner to Plan, Design and Equip Your Warehouse for Growth with you.
If your business distributes thousands of SKU’s to a high volume of customers, your storage facility’s layout and material handling fleet will determine your operational efficiency and revenue. When these key elements are planned and designed correctly, many companies have experienced an increase in sales as a result.
One of Barclay’s prospects, now a client, came to us after receiving unsatisfactory guidance from another forklift truck provider. They wanted to sell them a truck……we sold them a solution. The company was a small, local company that specialized in outdoor water sports and provided lessons as well. Here’s a closer look at how Barclay Brand Ferdon solved this client’s fulfillment issues.
How To Finance Material Handling Equipment
If you currently own or operate a warehouse, then you know just how important employing the right materials handling equipment is in improving efficiencies in your operation. Technologies are constantly changing and making sure you are utilizing the most productive lift trucks or other equipment is essential to staying competitive in this business environment. However, the purchase price of these assets are not cheap especially if you keep pace with technology and are turning your fleet every 3 to 5 years. At Barclay Brand Ferdon, we strive to help our clients find the right lift truck financing option for their business. Here’s a closer look at what to consider and the methods of payment we make available to you.
Protecting Your Assets in the Warehouse and Plant
For any material handling operation to be successful, safety must be the number one priority. Yet time and space constraints often prompt warehouses and plants to create narrower aisles and taller pallet racks to store more product, significantly upping the risk of workplace accidents and injuries.
That’s why these businesses need comprehensive warehouse pallet racking protection systems. To teach you more about these safeguards, New Jersey-based Barclay Brand Ferdon outlines the types of solutions that will help maximize your gains by enhancing the safety of your workplace.
Case Study: Yale Man-Up Turret Truck Provides the Solution for a Freezer Storage Warehouse
If your business operates in cold or freezer storage warehouses, you’re familiar with the unique challenges this work presents. As downtime in a freezer environment can be especially costly, any issues that arise must be met with a swift and efficient solution. That’s exactly what one of our clients – a popular food manufacturer based in New Jersey – learned when they encountered a challenge with their freezer space. Here’s a closer look at how Barclay Brand Ferdon solved their problem with a Yale Man-Up Turret Truck with a Heated Operator Cab.
Truck Mounted Forklift Guide
For a commercial business to succeed, you’ll not only need to offer quality products but also have the means to transport them to your customers safely and efficiently. When this second task arises, many businesses opt to hire outside assistance, increasing costs and limiting flexibility and convenience. Those companies who choose to maintain their own fleet of delivery trucks then need to deal with how the product is unloaded at the customer’s location or jobsite. Delivering loads where equipment is not readily available and terrain may not be easily maneuverable provides a challenge. But an ideal solution is to attain a truck-mounted forklift so staff can load and unload goods wherever and whenever they need to. To help you learn more about this material handling solution, Barclay Brand Ferdon explores the logistics of truck-mounted forklifts.
How To Choose The Right Forklift Battery
Whether you’re just starting out in the distribution and supply chain or your business has been in operation for decades, your lift truck power source can greatly influence your productivity, safety and overall fleet costs. With technologies rapidly advancing and with many options to choose from, it’s important to stay informed in determining the right battery or power source for your particular application. Here, Barclay Brand Ferdon will help you determine when to upgrade your fleet power and provide an overview of the best forklift batteries on the market.
Forklift Attachments For The Food & Grocery Distribution Industry
One of the strongest and most consistent sectors of our economy is Grocery Distribution. Moving food that is often frozen or is on a timeline for freshness requires quick and efficient handling through the supply chain. Keeping it safe requires an even greater challenge. Barclay has spent years working with grocery warehouses and distribution centers on providing the right forklift technologies that are often equipped with reliable lift truck attachments for these applications. As part of a three-blog series, we examine how the latest hydraulic attachment technologies have helped the food and grocery distribution industry to optimize efficiency, improve safety and provide environmental benefits.
Meeting OSHA Fall Protection Standards While Working with Aerial Equipment
According to the national Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries, 887 workers died from falls in 2017 – the highest number of deaths since they started tracking in 1992. In 2016, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) set forth new fall protection standards in an attempt to combat the rising trend of workplace deaths from falls. If you’re like a lot of businesses, you may still be working toward full compliance with these new rules, but it is crucial that you do for the safety of your workers. And it’s especially true if your employees need to reach high places with aerial equipment from Barclay Brand Ferdon, such as an order or stock picker, man up turret truck, scissor lift, boom lift, or aerial work platform because they’re at much greater risk of death from a fall. Here’s a guide to the safety standards you should have in place for workers using aerial equipment.
Cold Storage Warehousing Solutions
The food and grocery logistics industries are growing rapidly. Thanks to new technologies, it’s now possible to transport frozen and refrigerated products safely across the country. One of the most crucial parts of the supply chain is cold storage warehousing. Products are preserved in temperature-controlled environments as low as -40°F. These freezing cold temperatures pose challenges that other types of warehouses don’t have to worry about, such as worker comfort and lift truck operation, all while still trying to maximize speed and efficiency.
Barclay Brand Ferdon works closely with cold storage warehouses to help them overcome some of the unique problems associated with storing food. Specific environments like these require specialized equipment that warehouse managers can rely on.
Taylor-Dunn Warehouse Solutions
If you’re rethinking the equipment in your warehouse and whether you have the right materials handling solution, there is good news. Barclay offers Taylor-Dunn warehouse vehicles that allow you to move material, tow or carry a load, transport people, pick orders and more. These tools of the trade are excellent compliments to your forklift fleet that will help your company increase productivity and efficiencies.
Benefits of Quality Forklift Service Technicians
Even though there are a lot of forklift technicians out there, they don’t all have the same level of expertise. And, unfortunately, when technicians aren’t fully qualified to service your fleet, it shows. That’s why it’s so important to hire trained professionals who know exactly what they’re doing, like the team at Barclay Brand Ferdon. Here are the top four benefits of working with well-trained lift truck service technicians.
