Your Customisable Industrial Carts - Designed to streamline your material handling needs
For an effective and well-organised workstation, Flexpipe offers unique industrial carts that are modular and flexible material handling solutions. Heavily used in manufacturing settings, Flexpipe's customisable picking carts are made from strong, cold-rolled steel tubes with a scratch-resistant polyethylene (PE) coating. To build modular material handling carts systems, these steel tubes are combined with heavy-duty roller tracks, joints, casters, fasteners, kaizen foam, and other accessories.
Find out how Flexpipe's lean manufacturing material carts can maximise your production space, streamline processes, and save costs for your company. We offer the best modular board in Australia.
Barriers Of Welded Industrial Carts
Manufacturers often struggle to find the perfect custom industrial carts. Most cart suppliers weld their carts, making them inflexible and unsuitable for specific tasks. These welded carts can't accommodate different bin sizes, parts, or materials, leading to chaos and potential damage.
With Flexpipe equipment carts, you can say goodbye to the hassle of overloaded, messy carts. These modular platform trolley carts are designed to securely hold your parts, consumables, bins, and tools, preventing damage and ensuring efficient transport. Unlike welded carts, Flexpipe carts are highly customisable and can be adjusted on-site in minutes, not weeks or months. This flexibility is the power of modular material handling solutions. Get in touch with our experts to know more about our flow rack system.
Customised Welded Industrial Carts - Expensive, Longer lead times, Difficult to scale, No modular, Frequent material damage, Not cost-effective
Types Of Industrial Carts Offered By Flexpipe
Types Of Industrial Carts Offered By Flexpipe
There’s no limit to the type of customisable handling carts including heavy duty carts, warehouse trolley or industrial trolley that can be designed and built with the Flexpipe system. Flexpipe is the ultimate do-it-yourself cart construction tool, letting you create custom manufacturing carts in almost any setup in Australia. Companies can assemble kitting carts, tug carts/tow carts/tuggable carts, work-in-progress (WIP) carts, warehouse picking carts, heavy duty trolley, order picking trolley and truck carts.
Kitting carts
A kitting area is a designated space where various inventory products are assembled into kits and kept in movable bins on kitting carts. Then, these carts are moved to the designated area for the merchandise. These locations are typically found in lean manufacturing close to work cells, workstations, and storage rooms.
When a buyer places an order for a product, the kitting procedure begins. A Bill of Materials (BOM) is a list of all the components and materials required for each product. Kitting lowers warehouse overhead, facilitates packaging and shipping, and improves inventory management.
Flexpipe kitting carts are important for lean production lines. They can be changed to have specific slots for components and bins. This helps prevent mistakes by making sure only the right parts are used. This saves time and makes workflow smoother, as production staff get the right parts without having to search or unpack unnecessary items.
TOW CARTS, TUGGER CARTS, TUGGABLE CARTS
TOW CARTS, TUGGER CARTS, TUGGABLE CARTS
Large, bulky objects frequently need to be moved across large distances within factories. A "tuggable" cart, also known as a tug cart or tow cart, is a robust, heavy cart that has a large carrying capacity.
A tugger train is created by connecting many tugger carts. This locomotive is propelled by a battery-operated tugger. By making a single, large trip rather than several, smaller ones, tugger trains enable manufacturers to simplify their processes. This contributes to reducing factory traffic.
Robust steel tubes are used to construct Flexpipe tuggable carts. Every tugger cart has a base made of these tubes. A Flexpipe tugger cart can be made specifically to fit your parts, bins, cartons, and boxes.
A Flexpipe tugger cart helps you refill your line-side flow racks with the parts you need for production. This lets operators and technicians get more parts and materials in one go instead of using many smaller carts.
WIP Carts
WIP carts are the perfect solution to move semi-finished goods from one workstation to another or to move the products from a workstation to a WIP rack located in a holding area. Again, with Flexpipe material handling solutions, customisation and flexibility are key. WIP carts can be modified to accommodate products at various phases of assembly.
WIP carts let staff do tasks more efficiently by delivering semi-finished goods that are precisely assembled for the next job. WIP Flexpipe carts reduce overstock, mitigate errors, and eliminate tripping hazards or potential accidents by saving floor space.
Warehouse Picking Carts
Warehouse Picking Carts
Most warehouse and inventory workers use basic, all-purpose welded carts because companies aren't aware of modular tube and joint systems like Flexpipe. They use these welded carts for a while and might try to change them to fit different needs. This hardly, if ever, works.
Custom-built mobile warehouse carts known as 'flexpipe warehouse picking carts' facilitate the stocking, inventory, and transportation of components, cartons, supplies, and consumables for your warehouse, stocking, and inventory personnel. Your employees will have the most flexibility with these Flexpipe configurable handling carts since they can be configured to match any inventory skew and size.
The most impressive thing about a Flexpipe warehouse picking cart is that you can change its size, width, and dimensions to fit your existing inventory racking instead of changing the racking to a fixed welded cart. Companies often buy welded carts only to find they're too wide for their current inventory racking. These welded carts make storing and getting inventory time-consuming and sometimes dangerous.
Truck Carts
Simply put, a Flexpipe truck cart is a custom-made trolley that safely and securely transports finished goods of various sizes and shapes to a customer's workplace. A Flexpipe truck cart protects the finished product during delivery and ensures the item arrives at the customer's warehouse or production area in perfect condition.
A Flexpipe truck cart can be loaded onto a truck, delivered to the customer's site, and immediately placed near or next to a lean work cell or workstation. This saves valuable handling time for operators and technicians as the customer doesn't need to assign staff to load and unload. The cart is ready for the operator to take parts as required.
Once the parts on the first truck cart have been used, a new truck cart can be arranged to arrive while the existing truck cart is still at the customer's location. This helps your consumer save even more time.
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Benefits Of Using Industrial Carts
Is it necessary to customise carts for your business?
There are several reasons to customise your carts. Firstly, it allows you to create carts that securely and safely hold raw materials, semi-finished goods and consumables, and tools without coming into contact with each other. Secondly, Flexpipe custom industrial carts can be modified, changed, or adjusted in a fraction of the time compared to other welded or wooden cart structures. Thirdly, a welded cart can cost anywhere from $700 to $900, while a comparable Flexpipe cart costs about $250 to $300.
By tailoring your carts, you can grow your material handling solutions to keep up with your production. Business is never static or constant. As product designs evolve, so does the need to handle, store, and transport variously sized components, materials, and consumables. Carts that are modular, expandable, and adaptable let you easily adjust to that shift.
Another reason is that Flexpipe’s custom industrial carts are crucial in reducing the square footage of your production shop floor and warehouse or inventory storage spaces. Maximising your space means eliminating hazards and obstructions that impact workflow or lead to accidents and injury. Additionally, maximising your warehouse square footage means you don't have to rent or lease larger warehouse space, saving you money.
Finally, customising your carts allows you to adopt lean manufacturing best practices. Toyota Production System (TPS) philosophies like 5S and Kaizen emphasise continuous improvement to reduce costs, improve quality, and reduce delivery times. These methodologies emphasise constant changes to reduce waste in all its forms.
How can you customise your industrial cart with Flexpipe?
The most important thing to remember when using a Flexpipe cart is to make sure your structure can handle the weight. Flexpipe used independent experts to test how strong our pipes are, no matter how long or thick they are. We used this information to create the Flexpipe Loading Capacity Calculator. This downloadable Excel spreadsheet tells you how much weight a single pipe can hold, depending on its length and thickness.
There are two different ways to do this:
- 1. Design And Assemble Your Cart Yourself
- Using the free Flexpipe Creator Extension is the first choice. Without the need for manual drawings, you can design your whole building and place your order right from the Sketchup user interface with the help of this free plugin. Forget about the pain of having to cut and paste anything in Autocad. Instead, create your structure using the AI in the app.
- When your design is complete, select an icon to view your part breakdown and bill of materials (BOM). The lengths of pipes, casters, joints, roller tracks, fasteners, and other components required to create your completed project are comprehensively summarised on this page. When compared to conventional approaches, the Flexpipe Creator Extension allows businesses to construct their own structures in a fraction of the time.
- 2. Using Our Design And Fabrication Experts
- The other way is to have Flexpipe's fabrication team design your structure. In this situation, you would give Flexpipe your material handling structure's outside dimensions or frame. The Flexpipe fabrication team would then make your structure for you. Additionally, the fabrication team could then pre-cut your pipes so that you get everything ready to put together, like an Ikea box - but not nearly as difficult.
Types Of Industries That Can Benefit From Using Our Industrial Carts In Australia
Every day, businesses across many industries are using Flexpipe carts. Flexpipe's specialised industrial carts are a great resource for manufacturers who wish to apply lean manufacturing or continuous improvement. Furniture makers use Flexpipe carts, as do makers, integrators, and distributors in the aerospace, car, farming, and hydraulic industries, among others.
Businesses wanting to make their warehouse or shop floor smaller can get a lot out of the scalability and flexibility of Flexpipe's customisable handling carts. Makers of equipment and machinery can also get a lot out of them. In the end, any business moving materials that weigh less than 2,000 pounds can get a lot out of Flexpipe's DIY cart building.
How Our Industrial Carts Help To Improve The Efficiency Of Businesses In Australia?
By optimising workflow across the manufacturing floor, between adjacent workstations or lean work cells, and inside storage and inventory, flexpipe trolleys increase workplace efficiency. The ability to build specialised carts for your material, part, consumable, and bin sizes ensures that those components are handled, stored, and protected correctly.
Parts, materials, tools, and consumables are less likely to become obsolete or break when using Flexpipe trolleys since they are always firmly secured in position. This reduces the possibility of human error, frees up valuable time, and helps cut expenses.
- 1. Specially designed carts that fit bin sizes
- 2. Helps to reduce errors
- 3. Carts can be scaled up or down
- 4. Lessens the possibility of damage to materials
Flexpipe Industrial Carts: Cost and Benefit Analysis
There are several ways to measure the return on investment (ROI) of using Flexpipe's modular cart systems. One method is to compare the cost of Flexpipe carts to traditional welded carts.
Welded carts typically cost between $700 and $900, excluding delivery. A comparable Flexpipe cart would be around $250 to $300. This means a potential saving of $450 to $600 per cart.
Another way to calculate ROI is to consider the cost of lost or damaged parts, consumables, materials, or tools that occur when items are piled on welded carts. Flexpipe carts offer designated locations for each item, reducing the risk of loss or damage.
Some companies have also determined their ROI by measuring the amount of space saved and increased efficiency in their shop floor or warehouse. Additionally, using Flexpipe carts can help reduce transit cycle times and overall lead times in manufacturing.
Flexpipe: Your Modular, Scalable, Low-Cost Custom Industrial Carts Partner In Australia
Flexpipe is a leader in designing, building, and supporting affordable, durable, industrial-grade material handling solutions. Its innovative system of steel pipes and connectors helps businesses create their own DIY cart construction kit to assemble any material handling structure they need.
Flexpipe carts are the perfect lean manufacturing and continuous improvement tool, easily changed and modified whenever needed.
To learn how Flexpipe’s solution has benefited many companies in Australia, please visit our case studies. If you’re already convinced and want to start, contact us now.
