Tracy Buck

It’s still not uncommon to walk into a facility and find heavy gauge and plate materials, large stacks of coils, or bundled pipe and tubing stored on the shop floor, waiting to be retrieved and moved to another location in the plant for processing – along with all of the potential safety issues and adverse effects on profitability. Before investing in any system to solve this problem, a shop must determine exactly what they are trying to accomplish and explore how they process their inventory, right down to the orientation of the raw material when it’s initially received.