Spare Parts Storage in BAC Drawer Modules
Q. Is it difficult to set up BAC Cabinets for Spare Parts Storage
A. Setting up BAC Drawer Storage Cabinets is not difficult, but you must be prepared to invest some time into proper drawer layouts to suit your inventory
BAC Systems has been manufacturing modular drawer storage cabinets for nearly 5 decades now. Each drawer is designed to hold steel partitions, running front to rear within the drawer, and tough ABS dividers, running left to right between the steel partitions. They can also hold Plastic Bins for smaller parts.
When storing spare parts in BAC Drawers, a little care and some time well spent will result in a reliable storage solution that is stable enough to last you for decades.
Small to medium spare parts are best stored in locations out of which they cannot spill, with somewhere to mount an identifying label, and the ability to adjust the location size as stock-holding requirements change over the decades. BAC Drawer Storage Modules account for all of these features.
When initially setting up a drawer system for your spare parts, you need to consider the following key points:
1. Any divisions in your range - ie. parts you don't wish to store in the same drawer or cabinet because they belong to a different range
2. Are you locating parts using location numbers (so that parts can be located based upon size only, which reduces your storage footprint), or are you storing parts by alpha-numeric part numbers (meaning that you may have to leave space at the end of a class of parts / range of parts numers in order to allow for that range of numbers to increase in the future).
3. Access, picking frequency, companion parts, etc, which dictate where parts are best located
4. Allowance for growth (we normally recommend 25% allowance when no better information is available)
Once you have accounted for the peculiarites of your particular inventory and storage methods, and with knowledge of your maximum quantities for each items, it is then easy to work on locations sizes, by firstly determining the drawer height required and then finding a suitable location size for those parts within that drawer height.
Next, drawers need to be set up with the partitions and dividers. BAC Partitions come with small screw hooks which anchor the partition to the base of the drawer. This give the drawer additional rigidity and keeps the partition firmly anchored so that smaller parts can't pass beneath. Similarly, the tough ABS BAC Dividers have moulded lugs on them to help them lock into place so that small parts won't pass beneath them.
Take them time to plan your layout from the start, and you will only have to do it once. A job done twice is a job not initially well done.
BAC has a national Technical Sales Team who are ready and willing to come to your site to survey your inventory, to consider your available space, and to find out how you wish to work. By taking advantage of this complementary service, you can be confident that the skilled BAC Technicians building your spare parts cabinet will be able to put all of the BAC Partitions and Dividers in the drawer for you, saving you many hours of work.
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