SERVICES

Elite Storage Solutions provides optimal solutions, whether we are designing a new storage system or auditing an existing one. Information gathered about our customer's business enables us to generate the best solutions for their requirements.

The following customer's details are necessary for formulating safe, high quality storage solutions:

Details about the Customer's Product/ Load

• Dimensions: Maximum/ Average (Height, Width, Depth, Weight)
• Pallet Information (wood/plastic/condition)
• Details about the Layout
• Warehouse location (city, state, country)
• Facility layout: CAD Drawing (if, available)
• Location/ condition of all aspects of the building
• Building columns
• Lights
• Fire sprinklers
• HVAC
• Dock Doors
• Clear Height
• Floor (level, psi spec., obstructions)

Details about the Rotation of the Product

• Flow of product through the warehouse (duration of storage)
• This is a bulk material used in manufacturing or a finished product
• Number of pallet positions required
• Time sensitive First in, first out -or- first in, last out
• Static Selective Storage (Selective Pallet Rack, Cantilever Rack)
• Dynamic Storage (Pallet Flow, Push back, Carton Flow)
• Static Dense Storage (Drive in/Thru)

Details about the Fork truck(s)

• Capabilities (lift height, lift capacity, turning radius)
• Aisle requirement(s)

Storage product designs and layouts are often driven by the existing footprint of a facility. Utilizing the latest in AutoCAD technology, Elite Storage Solutions reviews buildings and determines how the storage layout will best integrate the product flow and the building layout.

Computer Aided engineering software is utilized for designing systems to RMI (Rack Manufacturer's Institute) specifications. The software provides for quicker response time and guaranteed structural design for Selective rack, Drive-in/ Drive Thru rack, Push Back rack, Cantilever rack and Carton Flow rack systems. A computer generated bill of material (BOM) is created and compiled directly from the software which eliminates potential, costly errors.

Layout drawings are provided to our customers to assist in the visual process. Our state of the art, high resolution, and color plotter provides the necessary drawings that are essential for our solutions. Preliminary drawings are developed with revisions in short order. Engineered stamped drawings are provided in regions where necessary. Additional drawings can be provided when required by local fire and building permit officials.

Elite Storage Solutions prides itself on long term relationships with our customers. Electronic copies of the project drawings are archived by Elite Storage Solutions for future reference. When future projects arise, Elite Storage Solutions is able to respond quickly with information about the existing layout and capital equipment previously provided at the site. Our company believes in storage product standardization and the benefits that are provided.

Benefits of Storage Product Standardization

• Flexibility: Ability to reconfigure existing product within a facility/organization.
• Safety: Remove the liability that surrounds the issue of mixing different manufactured products.
• Reduce Cost: Eliminate the need to scrap "unusable" product due to capacity/ lack of compatibility.

Elite Storage Solutions is often asked by our customers to audit older, existing storage products for re-use in new locations during times of consolidation. This service can be provided anywhere in North, Central and South America, and the Caribbean. Via a site audit, it provides us with a detailed understanding of what our customers have for existing storage products and the condition of that product. When necessary, Elite Storage Solutions can assist and facilitate the sale of the used/ existing storage products to maximize the return on investment. Our extensive industry knowledge provides our customers with a top level of information and an unparalleled comfort level. Site audits are also essential for customers that have facilities with damaged storage products. Damages to rack product cause by fork truck interaction are a major concern for employee safety.

When assessing Rack Damage, Elite Storage Solutions uses the following guidelines:

The rack Manufacturers Institute "specification for Design, Testing and Utilization of Industrial Steel Storage Racks- 1997 Edition" (RMI 97) is the code certified rack manufacturers use as a basis for rack design. In section 1.4.9 of the code, RMI has a simple directive regarding rack damage: "Upon any visible damage, the pertinent portions of the rack shall be unloaded immediately by the user and the damaged portion shall be adequately repaired or replaced." The policy of Elite Storage Solutions is to conform to this directive and to recommend the repair or replacement of damaged columns.