Flow Racks - The Ideal Way to Present Material to Your Operators for Lean Manufacturing

IPS built flow racks and stands create an ergonomic and efficient system to reduce labour, increase efficiency and promote lean manufacturing in your facility. Each flow rack consists of one or more inclined roller track and can be designed to gravity feed numerous containers for efficient line side material delivery. By utilizing flow racks you can achieve material handling parts presentation and empty container return all in one structure, which will save both space and time. Unlike a static storage system that causes a lot of unnecessary travel time, reaching and bending, our flow racks provide an easy access, ergonomic way to organize and present products to your operator.

Utilizing flow racks has many benefits, most notably decreasing the amount of restocking needed and increasing the speed of picking leading to greatly improved efficiency. Typical applications for flow racks include storage, material handling, picking, inventory rotation, assembly lines, wash-down and other applications that require the first-in first-out method of inventory handling.

The Ecoflex coated pipe and joint system allows for the complete customization of your application, can be designed to handle any sized box, container or part and can even be personalized to suit your personnel. In addition, unlike welded steel structures, all of our flow racks are completely modular and can be re-used and recycled unlimited times to continually adapt to changes in your facility.

At IPS we design and build everything from simple gravity feed flow racks for parts presentation and empty container return, as pictured above, to more complicated systems such as our automatic return flow rack or the right angle lever stop and tilt flow rack with automatic return, both demonstrated below.

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Integrated Products & Services Inc. was established in 2006 as a lean manufacturing and material handling consultation firm and have grown into a leader in the distribution of modular pipe racking and shelving systems in Canada. 

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