Vertical Storage Lift or Vertical Carousel?

If you want to increase the efficiency of your picking or store a lot of goods in a small area, both vertical storage lifts and vertical carousels are good alternatives. Each case must be evaluated individually, but in summary you can think like this:

Vertical storage lifts – Good if you have space to build large and several machines and if you have a large variety in the design and volume of your goods.

Vertical carousels – Good for small products with low variation in design and volume, as well as possible to mount on a small surface and get efficient storage even if you cannot maximize the size of the machine.

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In the text below, you will find our guide that can be helpful in understanding the differences between a vertical carousel and a vertical storage lifts – and perhaps also arrive at what suits you best!

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Storage machines come in a number of designs, but the most common variants are elevator machines (sometimes called picking machines) and vertical carousels (sometimes called vertical carousels). When it comes to storage in a small area, both options are perfectly fine, but there are still notable differences between the machines. Below you can read more about the differences, as well as get some tips on when a vertical storage lifts or a vertical carousel suits best.

What’s the difference?

The big difference between a vertical storage lifts and vertical carousels lies in the construction of the drive train. A vertical storage lifts has two sections with several shelves, where a crane in the middle of the lift fetches the shelves to one or more picking openings. A vertical carousel is built in a way that shelves are linked together and where the entire belt moves in the same direction when a shelf is to be displayed in the picking opening of the storage lift.

Benefits of a vertical storage lifts

• In certain circumstances, a storage lift can store products with a higher weight, as well as with greater variation in height and width. Because the crane only lifts one shelf at a time (and does not spin a belt where the weight of all the goods is), a vertical storage lift can handle heavier products.

• As a rule, a veritcal storage lift can be built with larger dimensions, i.e. higher, wider and deeper. In other words, you can convert floor space into a vertical storage lift lift that can hold a lot of goods. This is made possible because of the construction’s weight resistance.

• The software connected to a the vertical storage lift offers a little more possibilities in terms of shelf compression, as well as frequency setting on each shelf. Some of the manufacturers have in their machines height reading (of the products) in the opening, which enables the storage lift to compress the shelves efficiently. This is probably the absolute biggest advantage in terms of degree of filling. The machine types that do not have this usually agree at the time of purchase on 3-5 height variants to be used.

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The advantage of a vertical carousel

In comparison with vertical storage lifts, vertical carousels mainly have the following advantages:

• Vertical carousels are a good alternative if you have many and small products of the same size. In this case, you can make use of the vertical carousels plant’s ability to accommodate many and small storage spaces on each floor.

• Vertical carousels can be bought in smaller models and with a smaller depth, a vertical carousel can therefore be a good solution if you want a warehouse machine, but do not have unlimited space in your warehouse , warehouse or its factory.