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The “Cherry Picking” Nightmare

Traditional floor stacking forces you to store materials based on stability, not logic. You stack the heavy, thick plates at the bottom and the lighter sheets on top. But customer orders don’t follow your stacking logic. When a rush order comes in for that 6mm plate sitting at the bottom of “Stack B,” your workflow grinds to a halt.

This “Cherry Picking” process—unstacking, retrieving, and restacking—is the enemy of lean manufacturing. It creates a chaotic traffic jam of forklifts in your aisles and turns a 5-minute material swap into a 30-minute ordeal. In a job shop running 4-5 different materials a day, these lost minutes add up to hours of lost revenue every week.

From “Search Mode” to “Production Mode”

Een Horizontal Roll-Out Rack is designed for the reality of high-mix production. It functions like a vending machine for your steel. Need 304 Stainless? Open Drawer 1. Need Q235 Carbon Steel? Open Drawer 5. Every single SKU is accessible 100% of the time, without moving anything else.

This instant accessibility allows you to align your material handling with your production schedule, not the other way around. You can prep the next job’s material while the current job is still cutting, creating a seamless relay race that keeps the laser head moving.

Workflow Metric	Traditioneel stapelen	Roll-Out Rack System
Material Access	Sequential (Must move top to get bottom)	Random Access (Direct to any drawer)
Job Changeover Time	15-30 Minutes (Avg. Retrieval)	2-5 Minutes (Crane/Suction Lift)
Production Planning	Limited by stacking order	Flexible (Run any job, any time)
Operator Fatigue	High (Constant rigging/forklift use)	Low (Mechanical assist drawers)

Don’t Let Offcuts Become “Dead Inventory”

In a high-mix shop, you rarely use 100% of a sheet. You are left with valuable offcuts (remnants)—a half-sheet of expensive copper here, a strip of checker plate there. In a floor-stacking system, these offcuts get leaned against a wall or thrown onto a “mixed pallet,” never to be seen again.

The roll-out rack solves the “Boneyard” problem. Because the drawers have a solid frame and high capacity, you can dedicate specific drawers solely for usable offcuts. When a small job comes in, the operator checks the “Remnant Drawer” first. It turns what used to be scrap metal back into usable profit, simply because it is visible and accessible.

Streamlined Kitting for Assembly

The benefits extend beyond just raw sheets. Many fabricators use the drawers to “kit” cut parts. Once the laser is finished, the cut parts can be organized into a designated drawer waiting for the bending or welding team. This keeps the WIP (Work In Progress) off the floor and ensures the next department has exactly what they need, organized by job number.

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