Australian Media and Document Storage Solutions

State Rail Authority

Problem: Plan Storage

800,000 Roll Plans stored in pigeon holes and flat files taking up 2 complete floors of valuable city office space – no room for expansion.

 

Solution

Multi Level Racking consolidated all plans to one section of one floor.

Improved access and retrieval times – increased productivity Documents are protected from accidental damage Saved 60% of floor space - more plans per square foot Section pictured stored 64,000 AO size sheets in an area of 14 sq. metres

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Department of Defence – Army, Canberra

Problem: Map Storage

3 complete floors taken up with flat file storage Weight problems and limited access to upper drawers Lengthy access & retrieval times Damage to maps

Solution

Multi Level Racking consolidated all plans to one floor

Improved access and retrieval times - increased productivity Documents are protected from accidental damage Smaller Footprint

The picture below one complete floor of flat file storage fitting into one small section of Multi level Racking (Total Racking installation incomplete at this stage).

 

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Department of Minerals

Problem: Map Storage

50,000 maps all sizes, mostly large. Currently sitting on floor rolled up, stuck in flat drawers, very hard to access if there are large quantities Damage and tearing the maps when opening and closing the drawers. The drawers are very heavy, and the runners have a limited life span. Wasted floor space when you can only go so high with drawer units because of accessing. Floor space consumed in this setup was massive.

Solution

Multifile racking

• 18,000 maps on one level in 5.4 square metres (17.82 square feet).
• Quick access and retrieval.
• No drawer damage.
• Floor space is now a 1/3 of the drawers.
• Way economically priced than sets of drawers.

 

• 34,000 maps stored in 2 levels.
• Even though it has 2 levels (using your floor space correctly) by using the locking platform ladder, accessing the maps is done with ease.
• When accessing a map, you hang it on the attachment supplied to the ladder, simply vacate the ladder and retrieve your map, this also works in the reverse roll of putting a map into the Multifile rack.
• The weight of the steel cabinets are eliminated, your floor space is correctly used, again quick access and retrieval
• It does not matter what size the maps are, they will always line up to the one indexing point.
• If required you can always put a tidy cover around the unit (as per picture of State Rail).

 

Result

For a very economical investment, these maps can be stored on 1 floor only, the floor space has decreased immensely, and the speed of accessing is outstanding.