Tuning up the engine rooms
June 1st 2009 A series of three adjacent
warehouses now form a
centralised facility for
Perkins Engines – the result
of a project that has seen a
number of individual
satellite storage operations
brought onto a single site.
Up to 6,000 completed
engines can now be stored
in the one location
alongside supplies of some
3,000 individual parts
destined for global
manufacturing use. Much of
the completed engine
facility stores units destined
for use by Caterpillar –
indeed, the centralised
warehouse operation is
managed by Caterpillar
Logistics. However the site
is also dedicated to storage
and distribution for many
other leading names within
this specialist sector.
"The racking facility
centres on two of the three
warehouses at the
Peterborough site which are
now fully fitted with Link 51
XL racking – both standard
and narrow aisle,"
comments Link 51's sales
director, Keith Evans.
The three warehouses –
existing structures now fitted
out and adapted by Perkins
Engines – allow four levels
of racking to be used,
making full use of the
available roof height.
Importantly, Link 51 has
installed mesh decks
throughout which allow a
wide variation of palletised
boxed units, metal and
wooden stillages and
containers and totes
containing the range of
spares to be accommodated
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