FEATURE: SITE HEALTH & SAFETY
The All Seeing Eye Unveiled at IMHX last year, a new version of RackEye builds upon many features that made the first version an indispensable part of warehouse and logistics safety.
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arehouses are busy environments, with people and vehicles competing for space to pick and dispatch orders quickly and accurately. However,
warehouse managers are also under significant pressure to optimise storage to accommodate more goods and faster turnaround times – often at the expense of aisle space between warehouse racks. With less room for forklifts to manoeuvre, the chance of rack impact incidents increases and with it, the possibility of employee injuries, operational disruption and costly rack repairs. Employees will usually report more serious incidents, but what about the smaller impacts that can lead to cumulative damage? Can you be sure that you know where the hidden impact hotspots are in your warehouse? RackEye 2.0 builds upon many of the features of the original, while offering enhanced functionality thanks to new cloud-based technology. RackEye provides the solution by monitoring the health of your racking
fitted to the legs of warehouse racks. If
infrastructure around the clock, providing you
these detect that an impact has occurred, the
locations have demonstrated that use of the
and your team with real time notifications the
system will pinpoint the affected rack and
system can lead to a substantial reduction in rack
instant an impact occurs. Long-term impact
send an immediate SMS notification to the
impacts and positive changes in driver behaviour.
data reporting allows you to track incident
warehouse management team. This allows
By detecting rack impacts and alerting
trends, measure driver or shift performance, and
them to assess any damage immediately and
warehouse managers the instant incidents
identify potential issues with the design of your
take remedial action if necessary. Should
occur, RackEye encourages forklift drivers to
facility quickly, simply and conveniently from
an impact occur, the RackEye App will guide
take greater care when loading and unloading
your smartphone, tablet or computer.
you step-by-step through the process of
racks. Furthermore, statistical data of when and
inspecting and reporting the damage to
where impacts are occurring helps warehouse
your rack health, RackEye helps you to
EN15635:2008 standards, providing useful
managers to identify impact hotspots, as well
address both the immediate challenges of
directions on measuring distortion and
determine when additional driver training might
racking impact incidents and your longer-term
advising you of when repairs are necessary.
be required.
strategic objectives for optimising safety and
The App also allows you to upload photos
“This new intelligent system has been
performance within your warehouse operations.
of rack damage from your smartphone as a
successfully running in a number of customer
The RackEye system monitors the health
permanent incident record and to support
locations and they have been delighted with the
you with insurance claims.
results,” say Luke Smith, co-owner and managing
A complete turnkey solution for monitoring
of racking and provides real time notifications in the event of an impact. It works fully
RackEye not only addresses the
Live RackEye installations at customer
director of A-SAFE said. “They are benefiting
independently of the customer’s existing IT
immediate dangers of racking damage, but
from changes in driver behaviour, detailed KPI
infrastructure. RackEye provides a leased
also supports companies with achieving
reporting and measurement, and reductions in
turnkey solution for large manufacturing,
their long-term strategic warehouse
incidents. One customer has even reported a
logistics and distribution businesses to ensure
objectives. The RackEye Dashboard provides
75% reduction in impacts across the legs where
the sustained safety of their employees,
detailed insight into historical impact
they’ve been trialling it. It is great to see that
customers and equipment – without the need
trends, allowing users to identify impact
our customers are just as enthusiastic about the
for significant capital expenditure.
hotspots across multiple locations, target
enhanced system as we are. RackEye aims to
predictive maintenance activities and address
transform safety in the warehouse industry in
warehouse layout problems.
the UK and around the world.”
RackEye works by actively monitoring racking infrastructure via intelligent sensors
Spring 2020
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