Thursday, December 18, 2008

Reflection of Eadutional Field Trip by Phyu Hnin Wai

To itemize individual reflection on the field trip,
The warehousing floor layout at ALB is Through -flow. Through flow happens when separate loading bay facilities for outbound and shipping are provided, often at opposite end of a warehouse. It can be environmentally less easy to control, less flexible operationally and in the event of the need for future building expansion.
The height of each warehousing floor of ALB building in Singapore is thirty meters height (ten stories).
At ALB, the powered mobile racking system stored homogenous product and is main storage system. This layout consists of a number of mobile sections working between fixed end racks. This mobile racking system provides good space utilization and random access to every pallet. Mobile racking is expensive though this cost may be offset by a reduced building cost, consequent on the better space utilization. Floor loadings are high, probably requiring reinforcement.
A series of shelves suspended between two continuous chains are driven through supporting sprockets to move the trays up or down as required. Operator access to the carousels can be built to make use of available building height.

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