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Kardex Lektriever Carousels Protect Confidential and Restricted Files

College Admissions Offices, doctor’s offices, and government agencies are just a few examples of institutions that have confidential files. If your business stores confidential or restricted files, then you need to know about the Electric Powered File Cabinet by Kardex Remstar.  The Electric Powered File Cabinet guarantees effective security for confidential documents, improved ergonomics for workers, and increased productivity and file retrieval rates.

How the Kardex Electric Powered File Cabinets Work to Provide Safe Ergonomic Access to Files

The Kardex Remstar Electric Powered File Cabinet (also known as a Lektriever, Elektriever, Mediastation, and Vertical Carousel) contains a series of vertically arranged revolving shelves that are controlled by an electronic push button keypad. With just the push of a button, the motorized shelves rotate like a carousel and deliver files to the operator at an ergonomically positioned waist high work counter. The motorized filing shelves can be designed to for top tab files, side tab files, boxes, and computer media or you can mix media within the same cabinet.  The Lektriever Powered File Cabinet allows employees to access and retrieve files from a sitting or standing position without wasting time walking and searching.  The ergonomic work counter eliminates reaching, bending, and twisting, which increases worker productivity. (view Kardex Elektriever photo gallery)

Kardex Electriver Powered File Cabinets Secures and Protects Storage for Restricted Files

With bi-parting access doors, the Kardex Electriever Motorized Carousels will lock up at the end of the day or whenever management feels the need to secure confidential information stored in the carousel. The system’s Safety Information Panel (SIP) lets the staff know when the file cabinet is ready to operate. The SIP communicates information with a familiar traffic light design to quickly convey the status of the system to the operator. Kardex Electriver’s can provide total file security with the bi-parting cabinet doors or partial security with individual locking door shelves within the cabinet.

Kardex Lektriever Upright File Cabinets Stand Vertically Using Overhead Air Space to Consolidate Floor Space

By using a Kardex Electric Powered File Cabinets, you can save over half your file storage space. For example, a college admissions office was using traditional lateral five drawer filing cabinets taking up 820 square feet and two entire walls. Once they installed just two Kardex Electric File Carousels, they were able to reduce their file storage area to only 414 square feet, which is over a 50% savings in floor space. (view Kardex Electric Powered Cabinets in action)

Kardex Electric Powered File Cabinet Design, Planning, Installation and Maintenance Assistance

If you are interested in finding out more information on how Kardex Electric Powered File Cabinets will benefit your office, then give us a call today at 1-800-803-1083 or email us.  One of our Kardex Remstar filing experts will help you design and plan the perfect filing system for your office. If you already have a Kardex Megastar Mediastation, we can provide you with service, parts, relocations, upgrades, or accessories.

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Kardex Remstar Elektriever Series 90, Series 80, and Series 2000

Are you tired of searching all over the office for files? Well if you are looking to improve your office filing system and create a functional organized file storage area, a great way to accomplish your goal is with a Lektriever (aka Elektriever) powered vertical file cabinet.  The Lektriever power file carousel by Kardex will increase filing productivity, save valuable floor space, and provide ergonomic file storage.

How does a Kardex Remstar Lektriever Power File Carousel Work?

Kardex Lektriever Carousels stretch up vertically to store files, converting wasted overhead airspace space into productive file storage. The Kardex Lektriever, formally named Megastar Mediastations have a series of vertically arranged revolving file shelves or file drawers that bring your files, binders, computer media, or supplies to you at an ergonomically situated work counter. The Kardex Elektriever File Cabinet can be controlled by either an electronic keypad, or interfaced with your records management software system.

Kardex Lektriever Vertical File Cabinets Conserve Floor Space and Increase Productivity

The Kardex Remstar Lektriever Filing Cabinet is equipped with 2,700 linear inches of letter-sized filing space. Basically, this means that the Elektriever System has the same storage capacity as about 27 file cabinets; however, the Electriever uses 80% less floor space. The easy to use powered file cabinet will improve your filing productivity by up to 56% because everything is brought to you at an ergonomic work counter.

Kardex Remstar Rotating Filing Carousels are Ergonomic and ADA Compliant

The Kardex Elektriever minimizes physical effort such as twisting, bending, and lifting, and is easy to operate regardless of the user’s body size, posture or mobility. The Lektriever’s ergonomic design and operation are fully compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), OSHA regulations, as well as the Uniform Federal Accessibility Standards (UFAS) for forward and side reach, clearance under the work counter, and control accessibility guidelines. The Kardex Remstar Lektriever’s roll-out file drawers can be accessed with less than five pounds of force, and the ADA fixed seating posting board allows easy, natural access to retrieve stored files or other materials.

Benefits of Kardex Remstar Elektriever Power Filing System

• Improves worker productivity up to 56% by increasing file transactions compared to other filing equipment and cabinets
• Saves valuable floor space by up to 80%
• Improves employee morale and customer service
• Reduces costs associated with retrieving and storing files
• Meets ADA Accessibility guidelines
• Has locking doors to secure files

Professional Services for Your Kardex Remstar Lektriever Filing Systems

Southwest Solutions Group® provides professional services including planning, layout, installation, relocations, and ongoing maintenance for Kardex Remstar Series 90, 80, 2000 Vertical Filing Carousels. Email us or give us a call today at 1-800-803-1083 to speak with one of our Kardex Lektriever Filing System experts.

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Is Your Dealership’s Parts Room Maximizing Your Profits?

Auto dealer parts rooms are an important part of the profits for a car dealership, but they also require a huge investment in inventory, floor space, and personnel to operate.  Improving the productivity and space efficiency of your parts room will lower operating overhead costs, improve how customers view your dealership, improve the productivity of mechanics, lower costs of controlling and managing your staff, and provide a safer work environment.

Rate Your Parts Room Storage System’s Productivity and Space Efficiency

If you’ve often wondered just how efficient is your dealership’s parts room storage, answering the ten questions will help you identify possible improvements.

1. Is there a lot of unused overhead air space in your facility’s storage area?
2. Do you store inventory in a secondary location or in a modular storage container located away from the main storage area due to the lack of storage space?
3. Is your storage area climate controlled requiring energy to heat and air condition? 
4. Is there unnecessary air space on your shelves between the top of your plastic bins and the shelf above the bin? Example, are 4” high bins being used with 9” to 12” high openings?
5. Do your bins only consume part of the storage depth of your shelf, leaving unused airspace on the shelf behind the bins?  Example, 12” bins should be used on 12” deep shelving, not on 15” deep shelving or higher.
6. Is there a lot of empty space within the plastic bins themselves?  Plastic bins should be on average 70% to 80% full.
7. Have employees taken time off in the last year due to lifting, climbing, or other work related injury?
8. Are there inaccuracies accounting for inventory quantities or parts out of stock due to the lack of inventory management control?
9. Is pilferage of inventoried items a problem?
10. Do your employees have poor attitudes, frequent frustration, or an overall low morale towards the current storage shelving system?

If you answered to yes to one or more of these questions above, then an automated vertical storage tower can make your parts room storage area more efficient. 

Benefits of Using Motorized Automotive Vertical Storage Lifts in Your Parts Room

Depending on your ceiling height, you can have your entire parts inventory stored in one or two vertical storage towers.  These motorized vertical storage units will save up to 85% of your parts room floor space (compared to traditional storage shelving).  Vertical storage lifts also increase the productivity of parts room personnel by up to 66%.  This is possible because parts stored on the vertical lift storage trays (up to 10′ wide) are brought directly to a waist-high ergonomic work counter (watch automotive parts storage video).  Also, the vertical parts storage lift is equipped with integrated inventory management software/interface designed to increase productivity and provide management reports that will help you streamline your inventory costs.

About Motorized Automotive Vertical Parts Storage Lift Machines and Storage Trays

The vertical parts storage lift is a fantastic solution for most, if not all automotive parts storage rooms.  These fully enclosed storage units consist of vertically arranged storage trays, an ergonomically designed work counter, computerized controls, and inventory management software/interface.  Storage trays of parts are automatically brought to the operator at an ergonomic workstation with a push of a button. The storage trays are designed to hold anything from your smallest screw to an entire car engine. Storage trays are available in standard widths up to 10’ wide and up to 4’ deep (click here to watch a vertical lift in action).

Call us today at 1-800-803-1083 and let us help you assess if a Vertical Storage Lift will make your parts room more space efficient and productive.

If you are interested in finding out how an automated vertical storage lift will improve your dealership’s parts room profitability, we have two options for you.  First, you can call (1-800-803-1083) to schedule a free 30 minute consultation with one of our sales engineers.  They will be able to provide you with estimated space and productivity savings and give you budgetary costs.  Second, we offer a free onsite space assessment of your parts room storage area providing a detailed proposal including plan drawings, space and productivity savings, and return on investment calculations.  Call us today at 1-800-803-1083 or click here to email us.

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Win the War on Storage Problems with Automated Storage Towers

Operating military storage facilities can be difficult because you are dealing with new missions, base relocations, and expansions while trying to manage an influx of new equipment, supplies, and technology. If you need to issue more weapons, then you require more secure storage or if you deploy more military personnel you need more space for readiness equipment. One of the best solutions to these problems is automated storage systems. Automated storage towers save floor space, make inventoried supplies and parts easier to find, and provide for better working conditions, which ensures a more productive and efficient fighting force that is prepared and ready to go.  Click here to view automated storage tower videos – click here to view automated storage tower photo gallery.

Six Reasons to Automate Your Storage

1.  Save Floor Space.  Automated storage lifts and carousels are vertical storage towers that store parts and supplies vertically instead of horizontally, converting unused overhead air space into productive storage space.  These automated storage towers can recoup up to 80% of your floor space or more when compared to traditional storage shelving units, making automated storage cost-effective and energy efficient.  
2. Productivity.  Automated vertical storage systems consolidate your stored supplies into one centralized area, which means no more wandering around your entire facility wasting time looking for inventoried items.  Instead, you just go to the automated storage systems controller, input the part number  for the item you need, and the shelf/drawer comes directly to you.
3. Inventory Management. Automated storage systems inventory control software systems provide reporting and tracking information to better manage your inventory costs.  The ability to track multiple inventory locations, automate the picking of sub-assemblies, and maintain reorder levels can cut costs significantly and have a dramatic impact on the financial bottom line. 
4. Ergonomics. Another benefit to automated vertical storage towers is that the retrieval workstation counter is ergonomically positioned at waist height, so you won’t have to climb, stoop, or bend to retrieve stored inventory.  
5. Security.  Automated storage systems are enclosed units with a locking door located at the waist high work counter.  When storage personnel are away from the storage units, they can lock the storage tower for additional security of stored items. The fully enclosed units also provide protection from dust.
6. Flexibility. Automated storage systems have the ability to store large supply boxes and small parts drawers within the same unit.  Not only are they flexible enough to store different size parts in the same unit, the systems use a smart retrieval technology that stores the most active parts closest to the work counter for quick delivery.

All of these great features of automated storage will increase the morale and attitude of workers. Additionally, you can gain peace of mind knowing that your inventory is safe and secure from pilferage and dust.

Different Types of Automated Storage Systems

• Vertical storage lift modules
• Automated Parts Storage Shuttles
• Automated Stacker Systems
• Vertical Storage Carousels
• Horizontal Carousels

We Design Automated Storage Systems

Not sure what type of automated storage system is right from you?  Call toll free 1-800-803-1083 today to schedule a free 30 minutes storage assessment, or contact one of our local offices for more information.

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Got Efficiency?

Whether your business is growing or consolidating, strategically managing your overhead costs will make a difference in your bottom line profitability.  The three main costs for most organizations are space, people, and inventory. Successful businesses look for ways to lower overhead costs by maximizing the use of floor space, enhancing productivity, and controlling inventory costs.  If your business is looking to increase the efficiency, then the Kardex Remstar Vertical Storage Carousel is the answer you’ve been looking for.

How Do Vertical Storage Carousels Save Floor Space?

Kardex Remstar vertical storage carousels are enclosed storage systems that consist of vertically arranged trays, so they are able to convert unused overhead air space into productive storage space. Vertical Carousels (view image gallery) save up to 80% of floorspace compared to traditional storage methods. Their small footprints make them a perfect choice for point-of-use storage to free up floor space for value-added manufacturing and assembly operations. 

How Do Vertical Storage Carousels Increase Productivity?

Vertical storage carousels improve productivity and system throughput by allowing operators to fill orders without walking through aisles searching for items. Using vertical storage carousels, stored items are brought to an ergonomic work counter, reducing pull and restocking times. Vertical carousels can increase workload efficiency by 40% or more, improving operator productivity and reducing personnel costs, which makes your business more efficient.

How Do Vertical Storage Carousels Control Inventory Costs? 

The Remstar vertical storage carousel’s inventory management software is called FastPic.  FastPic is an integrated inventory management system designed to increase productivity and inventory management. An advanced, but easy-to-use controller is ergonomically positioned to ensure fast, simple operation.  FastPic vertical carousel inventory software will better manage your inventory costs and reduce overhead costs, improving the operating efficiency of your organization.

A New Generation of Vertical Carousel Storage Technology

In addition to delivering all stored goods to an ergonomic work counter, improving operator productivity, helping meet Lean Manufacturing Goals, linking storage areas from multiple floors, and offering security, the new Megamat RS offers the following benefits:
 
• Innovative Modular structure allows easily changeable unit height
• Interchangeable carrier concept allows different configurations without replacing entire carrier
• Lockable lightweight sliding doors
• Reduced life cycle costs with more efficient components requiring less maintenance and uses up to 40% less energy
• C3000 control system is a customizable work-center allowing the unit to run with or without a warehouse management system (wms)
• 50% reduction in weight and new transport rollers enable easy relocation of unit within facility

With innovative design and technology improvements, the Megamat RS Vertical Carousel maintains the key objectives in vertical carousel technology – saving time, space and money!

Call Us at 1-800-803-1083 for a Free 30 Minute Storage Assessment

Call us today at 1-800-803-1083 for a free 30 minute storage assessment to see how a Kardex Remstar Megamat RS Vertical Carousel can reduce your overhead costs and make your business more profitable.

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Green Storage Shelving That Makes “Cents”

There’s a great deal of interest in eco-friendly initiatives these days; but some companies were eco-friendly or green-friendly even before the concept became popular. Since 1969, Southwest Solutions Group has been designing and installing green-friendly storage solutions that conserve building floor space and increase employee productivity.  While we appreciate all the great building energy saving products to help conserve energy, we like to deal with the culprit - floor space efficiency.  Let’s face it, if we reduce the amount of floor space with energy efficient innovative storage solutions, we reduce the amount of space we need to light, cool and heat in the first place (see high density shelving image photo gallery).

Innovative Storage Solutions and LEED Building Certification

Implementing innovative storage and filing solutions for office and warehouse spaces (view white paper on the role of compact storage in green building design) will reduce the carbon footprint area in storage environments by as much as 50% or more. LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design), an internationally recognized green building certification system,  provides third-party verification for buildings designed and built using strategies aimed at improving performance across the metrics that matter most: energy savings, water efficiency, CO₂ emissions reduction, improved indoor environmental quality, and stewardship of resources and sensitivity to their impacts.   The impact of innovative storage and filing systems are smaller more energy efficient buildings, lower construction costs, and less energy to light, heat and cool buildings. Innovative storage solutions like high density mobile shelving and automated vertical carousels can contribute to LEED Certification in five of the six LEED categories.

Sustainable, Eco-Friendly Storage Solutions

When it comes to “green” claims, there are a few extra things you should know. There is no universal standard for certifying or labeling eco-friendly products or services. However, there are well-respected third party organizations such as GreenGuard and Cradle to Cradle that provide certification based on objective analysis. Learn about the certification process behind each label to help you make better purchasing decisions.

LEED certification only applies to building and renovation projects– not specific services or products. So, eco-friendly solutions may be properly advertised as helping your company earn LEED credits. But they cannot be accurately labeled as “LEED certified” themselves since the U.S. Green Building Council does not evaluate or certify any company, product, or service.

Stay tuned for the second post in this Green Storage Solutions blog series!

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Do you wish you had more available floor space?

As you walk through your office building, you think once again about the good old days. Five years ago, this building seemed so spacious. Every employee had plenty of floor space and there was space available for all the stuff you needed to run your business. Now, workers are crammed into tiny cubicles in your ever-shrinking office layout. Your warehouse space is overflowing too. It seems like every available inch of space is being used. But where did it all go?

Records or Inventory Overflowing?

The fact is, that a couple of decades’ worth of files may be cluttering up your office space. You’ve been installing more cabinets in every available nook and cranny. In some storage closets, there are stacks of boxes filled with old files. Then, there’s the inventory you need to stay in business. That warehouse space doesn’t come cheap. You’ve tried using “lean” supply chain principles, but it’s not enough.

A Money & Space Saving Solution

It’s time to reclaim the space you have so you can put it to more productive use. An ideal solution is one which consolidates your inventory or records and makes them easy to access. That’s where motorized compact mobile storage comes in. We offer customized space saving mobile storage shelving solutions! If you think about it, the walkways between rows of racks or shelves that give people  access are only useful when they are actually being used. The rest of the time, they are just taking up valuable real estate. What if you could make those walkways appear and disappear with the push of a button?  How much floor space could you save?

Motor Your Way to Greater Space Efficiency

With a high density motorized or hand powered shelving system, you can create an aisle where you need it, when you need it. The rest of the time, your racks/shelves are stored snuggly against one another on movable shelving tracks. Your new mobile compact storage system will accommodate up to twice the amount of inventory or files as your old storage system and will take up half of the space. You get to reclaim the extra floor space you were using for walkways between each rack. It’s up to you to decide what to do with all that additional room. Some customers use it for workforce expansion. Others decide to stop paying for off-site record storage and move everything in-house. Either way, you get more for your money for each square foot of floor space. A Win-Win!

A couple of more articles you may be interested in reading relating to saving floor space:

High Density  Filing System Reduces Floor Space By Over 71%

Automated  Storage Systems Reduce Warehouse Storage Floor Space by 94%

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Southwest Solutions Group recently donated a motorized storage carousel to help soothe the broken heart of an eleven-year-old girl and her family who lost their teenage daughter texting while driving. The family has started a foundation to spread the word to teenagers across the country regarding the dangers of texting while driving.  They hope to help other families avoid the sadness of losing a loved one to texting while driving.

Support Don’t Text And Drive

In support of this cause, Southwest Solutions Group is donating a portion of our automated carousel sales to the “Remember Alex Brown Foundation”.  In addition, we recently gave away over 4000 “DNT TXT N DRV” thumb bands to help raise awareness of this dangerous and growing epidemic.

Facts About Texting While Driving

1.  Over 200,000 accidents a year are caused by distracted driving.
2.  You are 23 times more likely to have an accident if you text and drive.
3.  71% of American’s admit to texting while driving.

Texting Tips

1.  Turn off your phone while driving.
2.  Ask a passenger to text for you or pull off the road to text.
3.  Talk with your children about the dangers of texting while driving.

Take the Don’t Text and Drive the pledge.  To read more about the Remember Alex Brown Foundation and how you can donate to their mission, click here.

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Optimize your manufacturing, distribution, or production facility with a Remstar Kardex vertical storage and retrieval carousel (view vertical storage and retrieval carousel image gallery).  Lean storage solutions is the buzz word in the material handling industry today.  What is Lean Storage? Lean Storage is the ability to improve and control the flow of materials throughout your facility.  What this really means is the ability to maximize the use of your floorspace and people to eliminate waste and create a facility that operates efficiently.

How the Remstar-Kardex Vertical Storage Carousel Works

Remstar-Kardex Vertical Carousels (formerly known as MegaStation by MegaStar) are fully enclosed storage systems of vertically rotating shelves moving up and down along a guide tracking delivering stored items to an operator at an ergonomically positioned work counter, eliminating wasted walk and search time.  The Vertical Storage Carousel’s ergonomic design allows items to be delivered within the user’s easy reach, minimizing bending, reaching and lifting that reduces picking efficiency and can lead to on-the-job injuries.

Managing Your Parts Inventory in a Remstar Vertical Storage Carousel.  The Kardex Remstar inventory management software is called FastPic.  FastPic is integrated into the machine for increased levels of productivity and inventory management. An advanced, but easy-to-use controller is ergonomically positioned to ensure fast, simple operation. A number of Kardex Remstar Vertical Storage Carousels (VSR) and Remstar Vertical Lift Modules (VLM) can be integrated to provide a comprehensive, fully automated storage and retrieval system (ASRS).

Kardex Remstar Vertical Storage Carousels provide the following benefits:

• Up to 80% savings in floor space by turning unused air space into productive storage space
• Dramatic increase in productivity (up to 600%)
• Ergonomic storage and retrieval work stations
• Improved inventory management control
• Lockable doors and password protected access to inventory
• Provide dust protection

Numerous Vertical Storage Carousel Configurations to Meet Your Unique Needs

Kardex Remstar Vertical Storage Carousels (formerly know as MegaStation by MegaStar) are available in more than 7,000 standard configurations. Vertical Storage Carousels are particularly well suited for service counter applications, allowing the operator to remain visible to customers while items are automatically retrieved.

Unlimited Vertical Storage Carousel Applications

Industry applications for vertical storage carousels include: Manufacturing, Automotive, Tooling Storage, Warehousing, distribution, Retail, Kitting, Electronics, Pharmaceutical, Refrigerated and freezer storage, Hospital/Medical.

Designing and Planning an Automated Storage and Retrieval System

Design and planning an automated storage and retrieval system is an important part our business.  Contact us today for a free storage analysis by one of our material handling storage specialists.

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Build smaller energy efficient buildings with Kardex Remstar Vertical Storage Lifts and Storage Shuttles.  Imagine reducing the size of your manufacturing or production facility’s storage floor space by 50% to 70% and avoiding costly new construction (View Storage Lift Image Gallery).  That is what one manufacturing and production facility did by installing Kardex Remstar automated vertical storage shuttles. The Kardex Remstar vertical storage shuttles made their facility more space efficient, energy efficient and increased the productivity of their employees.

Remstar Kardex Horizontal Storage Carousels are automated storage and retrieval systems (AS/RS) that save valuable floor space and increase personnel pick rates (View Material Handling LEAN Storage Image Gallery). Horizontal Storage Carousels consists of shelving units mounted on a track that rotates horizontally bringing inventory items to the operator. Having items brought directly to the operator eliminates time consuming walking up and down aisles to retrieve and store inventory items. Horizontal Storage Carousels can be placed adjacent to one another creating a "storage pod" to allow an operator to pick from one carousel while the others are rotating to the next pick position.  Integrated Quick Pick pick-to-light technologies indicate the carousel, shelf level, and quantity of items to pick, making batch picking simple, fast and easy.

Benefits of Kardex Remstar Horizontal Storage Carousel

• Increased throughput up to 600%
• Reduced floors pace requirements by 60%
• Reduced labor up to 2/3
• Easy to modify carousel length
• Fast ROI (Return On Investment)

Remstar Kardex Horizontal Storage Carousels Designing and Planning Assistance

Designing and planning storage systems is a major part of our business.  Our experienced and knowledgeable representatives specialize in understanding your specific goals and expectations to design and deliver the right storage solutions for you.  Contact us today and ask about our free space analysis.

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