stow Racking - Our industries - Automotive

The automotive market:
high volumes and odd shapes

The automotive industry's warehouses grapple with a unique set of challenges due to the complex nature of car parts and the ever-evolving automotive landscape. Nowadays, consumers can configure their car in detail before production and the necessary production steps are planned accordingly. This has a major impact on logistics and intralogistics.

stow Racking - Our industries - Automotive

Challenges facing the automotive industry’s warehouses

High Volume & Part Diversity

A single car can contain thousands of parts, ranging from tiny screws to bulky engines. Warehouses need efficient storage solutions to accommodate this vast variety in size, weight, and value.

Just-in-Time (JIT)

Car manufacturers often operate with a JIT approach, requiring a precise flow of parts to avoid production line disruptions.

Shifting Technologies

The rise of electric vehicles introduces new parts and materials. Warehouses need to adapt their storage and handling procedures to accommodate these evolving needs.

Sustainability Concerns

Auto manufacturers are increasingly focusing on sustainability. Warehouses need to explore eco-friendly storage practices and minimise waste generated from packaging materials.

Solutions from stow for the automotive industry

Some storage of automotive parts must be capable of bearing very heavy load ratings. Strengthening the racking is possible by reinforcing frames and beams which can be customised to client requirements. stow’s pallet racking has a range of options to accommodate heavy and bulky SKU’s. Our wide range of beam profiles and reinforcement means our racking replies to the market norms.

Odd shaped stock is also typical in the automotive industry, so variable size racking is a common option.

Automotive parts do not necessarily need to be accessible at all times, so deep lane storage is an option for this industry as well.

Increased storage space with drive-in racks

Drive-in racking systems eliminate picking aisles and are the ideal solution for storing large quantities of identical pallets. The system provides safe block stacking for goods, that are not stable enough to be stacked one on top of the other. stow’s Pal Rack® system is particularly suitable to build drive-in installations. The upright widths of up to 140 mm allow us to build very high installations.

stow Drive-in racking

Save space, multiply storage area

With our Multi-tier shelving, you can easily expand the storage capacity of your warehouse without the need to automate. stow offers an intelligent industrial flooring system as an extension to the stowshelf® system to create multi-tiered shelving applications. Two types of industrial flooring systems are commonly used: either intermediate walkways or floor-over systems, or a combination of both.

Multi tier shelving

Efficient and ultra-dense storage

Our Pallet Live Storage system provides efficient and ultra-dense storage of palletised goods with fewer aisles. This increases your storage capacity considerably. It can also be used to avoid unnecessary internal transport, bringing pallets from one point to another.

Pallet live storage

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