Mobile shelving Pallet Racking

Mobile shelving Pallet Racking or storage systems can seem complex at first glance but in reality they are very simple. Shelves and racks are installed on wheel carriages that are mounted to rails or tracks. The shelves then move on the rails to create an aisle. A mobile storage system can increase storage capacity by 100% as compared to a fixed system taking up the same amount of space. Mobile shelving takes up so much less space because instead of having an aisle for each shelving unit, it only needs one aisle for the entire system.
Pallet Racking Bay – this term is used to refer to 2 upright frames with beams between them. A starter bay consists of 2 upright frames and beams and an add-on bay in the same row consists of one upright frame plus beams.
Pallet Racking Row – consists of a series of interconnected frames and beams.
Pallet Racking Row Spacer – the steel member used to tie uprights together back to back. This forms a double row. There can be triple and quadruple rows when using double reach tracks. Common row spacer lengths are 200mm and 300mm.
Pallet Racking Upright Frame – also known as an upright or a frame. The vertical members are made up of two columns with diagonal and horizontal bracing bolted or welded between them.
Pallet Racking Beam – the horizontal member which attaches to the upright frame columns. Adjustment is on a 50mm centers.
Pallet Racking Footplates – steel plates bolted or welded to the bottom of the columns. Footplates depends load conditions and the seismic zone.
Pallet Racking Bracing Panels – this term is used to describe two horizontal braces and the diagonal between them within a frame. They are bolted or welded to the inside of the two frame columns.