Why Striping? – Warehouses and Distribution Centers

Warehouses and Distribution Centers can be the epitome of streamlined, efficient logistics. They can also be disorderly dumpster fires with lost material, dangerous accidents and woeful inefficiencies. So let’s fix that for you!

Cleveland, Ohio is a manufacturing town with a century-plus presence across multiple industries and persisting til today. It’s also a major metropolitan area in the U.S. with over 2,000,000 residents. The point is: there’s a lot of freight going to and from the area and as a result: a lot of warehouses and distribution centers, whether around downtown or out in the suburbs. And all these facilities need mechanisms to control motion.

As spoken to in other articles here are Lines and Logos, systems that move people and material need to be organized. Getting the right people and right material at the right place and right time. That’s what logistics is at its core. When it comes to the Warehouse or the Distribution Center, these principals play out on a micro-scale, receiving inbound merchandise or supplies, moving it along a factory floor, to producing goods, and ultimately sending it out to its next destination. At all stages, the traffic control mechanisms need to be in place in order to expedite movement, reduce inefficient movements and maintain safety of all personnel and equipment.

What do Marked Lanes do? They tell someone, with no context or knowledge, where they can and cannot move things. These lanes can also contain the movement of foot traffic or vehicles and ensure the rapid movement while limiting potential dangers by ensuring adjacent personnel are aware of massive, moving objects. Marked Lanes can also identify escape routes in the case of fires or other emergencies. Doubly marked lines with specialty coatings can be used in lights-out conditions with extra markings to indicate paths to escape, ensuring personnel safety.

Decals such as traffic arrows also control the flow of motion in a system by showing operators, especially external customers who do not make daily visits, where the right way to go is. This reduces inefficiencies. This means more tasks can be completed. This means there is more profit to be made. All the while, reducing accidents through clearly designated lanes.

All in all, it’s impossible to operate a large-scale warehouse or distribution centers without clearly marked lanes and boundaries; or at least: it can’t be done efficiently. Whether you’re a small or large business in the Cleveland, Ohio metro area, Lines and Logos can help get your facility in top-operating shape!