Warehouse Racking
Maximize storage capacity, improve product access, and make better use of your available warehouse space
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Complete Storage Solutions Built Around How You Work
The right storage system starts with understanding your operation. RMH Systems looks beyond racking to understand your space, storage requirements, and future needs, helping you maximize capacity and make better use of your facility.
Our racking experts can help you think through:
✓ Facility Layout & Space Planning
✓ Existing Space Optimization
✓ Storage System Selection
✓ Racking Safety Audits
✓ Installation & Reconfiguration
✓ Future Expansion Planning
Find the Right Racking System
Pallet Racking
Flexible selective storage in structural or boltless options with direct access to individual pallets.
Pushback Racking
Maximize storage density with systems that store pallets 2–6 deep while maintaining easy access to individual SKUs.
Pallet Flow Rack
Maximize storage density with gravity-fed pallet lanes that support efficient FIFO inventory control and product movement.
Drive-In/Drive-Through Racking
Maximize storage density by reducing the number of aisles required, allowing you to store up to 75% more pallets than selective racking.
Cantilever Rack
Open-front storage with no front columns for easier loading and unloading of long, bulky, or irregularly shaped products.
Carton Flow Rack
Gravity-fed storage for efficient case and piece picking, with single-lane or flow-bed configurations that integrate into your racking system.
Protect In-Rack Fire Sprinklers with K3
Accidentally hitting an in-rack sprinkler can cause thousands of dollars of damage in minutes. K3 Sprinkler Guards add a layer of protection where they’re most vulnerable.
These heavy-duty guards mount directly to your racking and are designed to absorb direct hits from forklifts and pallets while maintaining necessary clearance for proper sprinkler operation.
Additional Storage Systems
Create additional usable floor space by taking advantage of vertical space above storage, production, or work areas.
Multi-level rack and conveyor systems designed to improve space utilization and increase order-picking efficiency.
Vertical Storage Carousels
Automated goods-to-person storage that maximizes vertical space and brings stored items directly to the operator.
Over Dock Door Racking
Put unused space above dock doors to work with storage for empty pallets, corrugated materials, and other lightweight items.
Shelving
Versatile industrial shelving for organized storage and easy access to parts, cartons, and other inventory.
Industrial Modular Cabinets
High-density, organized storage for tools, parts, and supplies with fast access for picking and retrieval.
Automate High-Density Pallet Storage
Automha Pallet Runner systems help you increase storage density without requiring forklifts to travel through deep rack lanes.
Choose from semi-automated shuttle systems that move pallets within individual storage lanes or fully automated solutions that move pallets throughout the racking system.
✓ Increase storage density
✓ Reduce forklift travel within rack
✓ Semi-automated and fully automated options
✓ Available for freezer environments
Racking Accessories & Protection
Wire Decking
Durable wire decking for pallet rack that improves load support, visibility, and overall rack safety.
Pallet Supports
Add support beneath pallet loads to improve stability and help distribute weight across rack beams.
Column Protectors
Protect vulnerable rack uprights from forklift and equipment impacts in high-traffic warehouse areas.
Rack-End Protection
Protect exposed rack ends from forklift impacts and costly damage with heavy-duty guarding.
How Racking Supports Larger Automation Projects
Major Household Goods Distributor
During the pandemic, a surge in consumer demand left a major household goods distributor struggling to keep up with orders. The company’s existing fulfillment process couldn’t handle the increased volume, resulting in an order backlog of nearly three months.
The distributor needed to significantly increase fulfillment capacity while creating a more efficient, scalable process for picking, packing, and shipping customer orders.
Challenges
- Nearly three-month order backlog
- Rapid increase in order volume
- Existing fulfillment process unable to keep pace
- Too many manual touches throughout fulfillment
- Need for greater long-term capacity and scalability
Solutions
RMH Systems designed and implemented a complete automated order fulfillment system for the company’s 600,000-square-foot distribution facility in the Chicago area.
The solution included three carton-flow pick modules and an integrated order-picking system connected to automated packaging and shipping conveyors.
Automation was incorporated throughout the fulfillment process, including:
- Carton erecting
- Pick-to-light technology
- Barcode scanning
- Two-level conveyors, accumulation, and sortation
- Print-and-apply labeling
- Automatic carton sealing
- Racking, including selective, double-deep, carton flow, and over dock door
By integrating these technologies into one complete system, RMH created a streamlined process that moved orders from picking through packaging and shipping with fewer manual touches.
Results
✓ Increased order fulfillment capacity
✓ Reduced manual handling
✓ Faster movement from picking through shipping
✓ More efficient packaging and shipping
✓ Greater ability to handle fluctuations in order volume
✓ Scalable system designed to support future growth
Schmeeckle Brothers Construction & Sustainable Beef
Schmeeckle Brothers Construction was selected to build a new 556,000-square-foot beef processing facility for Sustainable Beef in North Platte, Nebraska.
As an industrial contractor specializing in beef processing facilities, Schmeeckle needed a systems partner like RMH Systems that could work within its design-build approach and take responsibility for significant portions of the project.
Challenges
- Coordinating material flow across multiple facility levels
- Moving empty and filled cases efficiently between production areas
- Managing sorting, sealing, merging, and transport to the box cooler
- Integrating equipment from multiple manufacturers into one coordinated system
- Incorporating storage racking into the box cooler design
- Minimizing manual handling and operator interaction between processes
Solutions
RMH worked alongside Schmeeckle to bring multiple technologies together into one coordinated, turnkey material handling and automation system.
The project included:
- Conveyor systems – Custom conveying and case-transfer systems move cases between levels and through multiple stages of the operation.
- Automated case forming – Case-forming equipment is integrated with the conveyor system to automatically supply cases to the production area.
- Sorting & merging – Filled cases return to the upper level for sorting before multiple conveyor lines merge into a single flow.
- Automated case sealing – Case sealing is integrated into the material flow before finished cases continue to the box cooler.
- Warehouse racking – Storage racking supports finished product storage within the facility’s box cooler.
- Controls – Controls and programming coordinate conveyors, case handling equipment, and other automated systems across the operation.
- Truck scales – Truck scales were integrated into the facility to support vehicle weighing.
Results
✓ Automated case flow across multiple facility levels and production areas
✓ Reduced manual handling between process steps
✓ Reduced operator interaction between process steps
✓ Created a coordinated flow from case forming through finished product storage
Plan Your Racking Project
Download our racking design cheat sheets to gather the dimensions and project details our team needs to start planning your system.
