10 Simple Methods to Reduce Forklift Use-cost

HOME ꄲ Technology News ꄲ 10 Simple Methods to Reduce Forklift Use-cost

The scheduled maintenance to the forklift can prolong the life-span of forklift truck and keep the forklift in the best performance and safety working condition. In some logistic distribution centers and warehouses, in order to reduce the logistic cost and finish the heavy workload, forklift keep working for almost 24 hours. So how can we do a scheduled maintenance by the most simple way to ensure our forklift working efficiency? Here are some suggestions from the skilled driver for your reference:

It is necessary to change the easy wearing tyres periodically , it like the F1 racing, the tyres will wear out seriously after the full-load work. The tyre wearing out will let the forklift operation unstable and will also cause serious viberation, which will cause damage to the electrical system and hydraulic system. So when we buy a forklift, it's very important to select the right tyres with good quality according to the condition we will work.
Keep the working environment and forklift itself clean for the work. In some warehouses and production workshops, often there are some debris of wooden pallets, rubbish, cloth waste, production waste, etc, whih are easy to convolve the wheels especiallly for the pallet trucks and stackers. So please do more checking and cleaning before using the forklifts, and also it's better to use the plastic and metal pallet instead of wooden pallet.
Please fill in the hydraulic oil and lubricating oil on time, the lacking of hydraulic oil will affect the performance of the rated lifting height and loading capacity which will affect the work efficiency seriously.
Please operate the forklift according to the operation manual in the right way, or it will cause damage to the forklift or cause accident.
In the narrow aisle warehouse, it is better to arrange skilled forklift driver to operate, please pay more attention on the warning alam and turning lights to avoid any accident to the people.
Please spend more time to train your forklift operators, especially for the safety knowledge, this will be helpful on reduce the "damage rate" of forklift itself and the cargo, and highly reduce the reparing cost for each forklifts.
It's necessary to make a professional maintenance schedule and do according to the list, it will avoid the main problem, save the reparing cost and prolong the forklift service life, etc.
It's necessary to make a strict management system of using forklift. When not use the forklift, please take off the key to avoid any damage to the forklift if other non-professinal driver to use the forklift with wrong operation. While operating forklift in some narrow aisle, please check and ensure the cargo and forklift can accorss before drive.
After the daily work, please spend half or one hour to listen the "voice" of the forklift, please listen the forklift working sound carefully to ensure the condition is normal and suitable for the next day's working.
It's necessary to have a professional maintenance traning of the battery, especially most of the lead-acid battery, please remember to check the distilled water condition and fill in on time when it is not enough. Please don't charge the battery overtime or it will cause damage to the charger.