When cages are stacked all over a workshop they block aisles and get knocked over by forklifts. Lay out by zoning first, then aisles, then safety distances. A well-disciplined cage area brings down bumping and stack-collapse accidents.
Step one, zoning: by material flow, split a pending-inspection zone, a temporary storage zone, an accepted zone and a pending-return zone; mark boundaries with yellow paint, and set cages inside the lines. Group different part shapes in separate bays, with heavy items inside and light items outside, to cut long forklift runs.
Step two, aisles: leave at least 2.8 m clear width for forklift aisles (when a 3-ton forklift works with turns), and over 1.2 m for pedestrian aisles. Main aisles must run straight to the workshop exit and never be blocked by cages. Keep at least 200 mm clearance between the stack edge and the aisle line, so fork tines don't scrape.
Step three, safety distances: keep at least 0.8 m between cage stacks and machine tools or equipment operating faces. Within 1.5 m in front of distribution boxes, fire hydrants and extinguishers, no cages. Don't exceed the design stack height; where there are pipes or lighting overhead, leave an extra 0.5 m clearance.
On the ground: hang 'height, load and layer limits' signs at the cage-zone entrance, and once per shift check each cage for tilting. Nanjing Tongnuo Warehouse Equipment Manufacturing Co., Ltd. can help customers plan the cage-zone size and cage counts from the workshop layout drawing.