RS-150 Radio Shuttle Racking

Deep-lane storage worked by a battery shuttle, so lane depth is set by the layout instead of by how far a driver will reverse.

One shuttle serves many lanes, so automation cost tracks throughput not pallet count

No mast enters the lane, which removes the usual source of deep-lane frame damage

LIFO or FIFO layout decided before set-out, since it changes the aisle count

Pallet bottom boards and overhang checked at survey, because a shuttle will not drive over a break

Specifications

Upright section: 120 x 95 mm, 2.0 / 2.5 / 3.0 mm gauge
Rail capacity per pallet: up to 1 500 kg
Lane depth: 6 - 40 pallet positions
Frame height range: 3 000 - 14 000 mm
Shuttle power: Lithium pack, charged in the lane
Operating temperature: -30 C to +40 C
Flow: LIFO single face or FIFO with load and pick faces
Finish: Powder coat or hot-dip galvanised

Product detail

Radio shuttle keeps the density of drive-in and removes the reason drive-in lanes stay shallow. The truck never enters the lane. It places a pallet on the lane entry, and a battery shuttle carries it to the first free position and comes back.

Where the gain is

Two places. Lane depth stops being limited by driver confidence, so a lane can run past twenty pallets where a drive-in lane would stop at six. And the racking stops absorbing impacts, because nothing with a mast goes inside it. In a freezer, where the truck is the least reliable part of the operation, that second point usually matters more than the first.

How the lane works

The shuttle runs on rails carried by the frame. It is placed in the lane by the truck, controlled from a handheld unit, and moved between lanes as work moves. One shuttle serves many lanes, so the cost of the automation scales with throughput rather than with pallet positions.

FIFO or LIFO

A lane loaded and unloaded from the same face is last-in first-out. Loading one face and picking the other makes it first-in first-out, which is the layout to specify for dated stock. That choice changes the aisle count and has to be made before the frames are set out.

Pallet quality

Deep-lane systems are unforgiving about pallets. A broken bottom board that a truck would drive over will stop a shuttle in the middle of a full lane. Pallet condition, bottom board layout and overhang are checked as part of the survey.