Save time, money, space, manpower and achieve greater efficiency
Mobile weighing is possible with a weighing system built into a pallet truck, electric pallet truck, stacker, order picker or forklift truck. Do you already have one or more trucks? It is also possible to integrate mobile weighing technology, regardless of the brand or model you already have.
Efficiency and flexibility thanks to mobile weighing
Mobile weighing systems enable dynamic weighing, making your intralogistics more efficient and flexible. Where this was not possible in the past, you can now weigh where it is most efficient. For example, at goods receipt or during order picking. You are no longer tied to a fixed floor scale that takes up a lot of space and requires a lot of unnecessary logistical movements. Including the access route, this can quickly add up to 20 m². A pallet truck or forklift truck with a weighing system makes that lost warehouse space profitable again.
With a weighing system on your pallet truck or weighing system on your forklift truck, you also save a lot of time. You do two things at once: transport and weigh. You know the weight of every load immediately. When picking orders, you can check each order line and correct any errors where it costs the least: at the item location. This eliminates the need to drive pallets or containers back and forth to a fixed weighing scale. This saves you time and manpower and makes your internal logistics much more efficient.
Full Return On Investment
A simple calculation illustrates how quickly a mobile weighing system can pay for itself
Suppose you weigh an average of four pallets per hour. By using mobile weighing and a truck to transport the pallets, you save an average of 1.5 minutes per pallet. That's a daily saving of 48 minutes or 200 man-hours per year. If a man-hour costs £25, for example, you save £5,000 per year. The investment will pay for itself within a few months.
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Trends and future
What role will mobile weighing systems and the integration of material and information flows play in logistics in the future? Logistics is all about managing material flows. To ensure that these material flows run as efficiently as possible and to keep costs as low as possible, we need to know everything there is to know about these material flows at all times. How much of a particular material is there, where is it located, where is it going, where does it come from, where was it produced and what was used in its production? If we make this information continuously available to all stakeholders, we will have achieved full integration of material flows and information flows.
In the future, more and more forklifts and warehouse trucks will be equipped with RF-ID for automatic identification of pallets or containers and an integrated weighing system to determine their weight. This information will be exchanged wirelessly via truck terminals, via a W-LAN network, with a warehouse management system (WMS). In this way, trucks are increasingly becoming a platform for collecting and communicating real-time information about material flows, in addition to their basic function as a means of internal transport.
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Data management: the factual basis for smarter business processes
Interested in the most efficient goods flows, increased profits and preventing picking errors? Data management is crucial to achieving this quality improvement. Thanks to RAVAS' mobile weighing technology, your data is available in real time, 24 hours a day. This provides a wealth of information that you can use immediately to implement improvements and take action.
How your pallet trucks and trucks can suddenly weigh so much!
Pallet trucks, warehouse trucks and forklifts are indispensable in logistics and industry. And then there are models on the market that can weigh. It is this mobile weighing technology that ensures that the flow in and around your company takes off. Streamlining your logistics processes has never been so effective. Curious about the how and why behind mobile weighing?
Mobile weighing scale compared to a floor weighing scale
For years, industrial floor scales were the go-to product for companies weighing their goods. But are floor scales still as efficient as they used to be? Wouldn't a newer, mobile scale be a much better way to keep track of your inventory?
