LTV Steel Case Study - Very Narrow Aisle Forklifts - Landoll - #1

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ADC, Inc. Cleveland, Ohio, operates this storage facility under contract to LTV, handling spare production parts ranging from motors and generators to large furnace components weighing 80,000 lbs.

"Most warehouses achieve about 50% cube utiliza­tion," points out John P. Hupperich, ADC warehouse supervisor at the facility. "There is a lot of cube in this building and to use it we need a VNA configuration. We're probably getting about 65% right now."

A 12-aisle, 400-ft. long, 20-ft. high storage system was designed with variable load openings depending on the type of product. The facility is ideal for a VNA configu­ration because of the low turnover and high SKUs ADC works with.

A 12,000 lb. capacity Drexel SwingMast SL-120. the largest VNA lift truck Drexel has produced tor commercial markets, is used to handle pelletized products and as a back up for truck loading and unloading, a task usually handled by another high capacity lift truck in the LTV plant.

Standard features of the SL-120 include 90° pivot and 44-in. shift, automatic return-to-neutral, separate GE controls for traction and pump motors, battery discharge indicator with lift interrupt, hydrostatic power steering, and polyurethane tires on both load and rear steer wheels.

A three-stage mast is standard allowing lift heights of 243 in. (20 ft. 3 in.) and mast tilt of 3^C forward and 6° rear.

LTV gets a full 8-hour shift on the twin 36-volt batter­ies hooked in series. One set charges while the other is in use.

"The 12,000 lb. truck operates exactly the same as a 3,000 lb. capacity vehicle," points out Hupperich. "It's the operator-you have to have trained operators and go slow in the beginning.

lA fhen LTV Steel revamped an existing building to store V V large crane components and other replacement parts for its mill and furnaces, it chose a Very Narrow Aisle storage configuration to attain optimum cube utilization of

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