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For a busy warehouse to be successful, it must become a well-oiled machine. Stepping into this type of space, you immediately hear the hum of equipment and the buzz of employee activity, but there’s also the realization that this chaos has to stay well under control.
While products move seamlessly through an efficient warehouse, often there are hidden inefficiencies and safety risks that could be silently killing your bottom line. Visual solutions are a key strategic investment in increased productivity, clarity and safety. In this blog post, we guide you through some of the common warehousing challenges and how you can solve them with custom signage and graphics.
Ensuring Compliance and Safety
Safety is top-of-mind for every warehouse manager. Every day in your facility presents the potential risk for accidents and fines. An environment that’s visually chaotic can increase these risks, while strategic visual cues can contribute to reducing the risk of such incidents.
Visual Solutions that Keep Your Employees and Business Safe:
- Well orchestrated floor graphics guide employees or visitors down pedestrian walkways
- Traffic lane visuals for forklifts can keep employees aware and out of these areas during high traffic time periods
- Bold, high quality, easy-to-read safety signs such as “Warning: Heavy Machinery” and “PPE Required” are informative and help minimize risk.
- Hazard identification graphics for high-voltage or chemical storage areas can better ensure a safe working environment for all.
- Well-marked routes to emergency exits and fire extinguishers provide a path to safety in the event of an emergency.
Creating Warehouse Efficiency with Improved Wayfinding
Increasing productivity and reducing waste are essential in the world of warehousing, and each minute an employee is searching for a production or dock door is another minute you’ve lost a dollar. For an expansive facility, this can also contribute to substantial labor costs. To guide employees quickly, you can incorporate large and highly visible directional signs. For directing them to the bin, rack or aisle for specific packages, labeled decals can assist with precision of inventory location.
Improve wayfinding around your warehouse with directional signage
With a series of exterior and interior numerals and door dock visuals, you can better streamline workflow for loading areas. For even more warehouse efficiency, color code warehousing sections to designate shipping, packing and receiving areas. These measures make critical areas easily accessible.
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Streamlining Workflow and Boosting Productivity
For employees to enjoy their jobs, they need to know what they do and where and how they do it. They also need access to tools and educational information to catapult their productivity. When warehousing spaces lack the proper visual cues to guide employees, warehouse managers can experience expensive mistakes and inconsistencies as well as bottlenecks in employee workflow.
Custom Signs Keep Things Moving:
- Designated area signs such as "Receiving," "Quality Control," and "Outbound Staging” provide clear direction for employees to do their work.
- Custom glass or magnetic boards for real-time data are a wonderful solution for tracking orders, workflow and goals.
- Process instruction graphics can standardize specific workstation tasks.
- Barcode signage and inventory management labels lead to faster employee scanning and storing.
How Custom Visuals Boosted Efficiency and Morale for One Global Manufacturer
Mitsubishi-Trane, a recognized leader in HVAC technology, believed a signage strategy for their new 400,000-square-foot facility would strengthen the company’s supply chain efficiency. They had a vision to consistently brand the new facility while managing the large-scale trucking traffic strategically located just off the interstate. Additionally, the customer sought to organize inventory and impress visitors by leveraging their brand identity built on technology and innovation.
A multi-faceted, custom signage solution was developed, branding the large-scale exterior of the building with channel letter signs and die-cut vinyl lettering at the entrance. Temporary signs were installed on U-channel posts to direct truck traffic more effectively during construction. To enhance privacy and to reinforce the brand, frosted film with die-cut logos were installed throughout the warehouse on all glass surfaces within the building. Branded frames and plaques were used to transform the lobby into a welcoming space, and wall murals were strategically placed throughout the facility to leverage the company’s reputation.
Custom signage improves traffic management while also amplifying brand image
To assist with inventory management, the team created barcode signs that were functional and enhanced operational efficiency. Office cubicle signs were also designed and installed, ensuring each area was clearly marked and contributed to the overall feel of an organized and modern environment.
The solutions significantly improved traffic management around the facility and amplified the image of the Mitsubishi-Trane brand. The New Jersey location has become a showcase for the company and is frequently toured by new clients due to its efficient layout and impressive branding. The project not only fulfilled the client’s objectives but also set a new standard for how graphics can enhance both the functionality and professionalism of a training, distribution and warehouse center.
Elevating Communication and Motivating Employees
In an expansive and bustling warehouse, ensuring that you communicate important information to every employee can be a true challenge. In addition to information that can keep them safe and efficient, you also want to convey that your staff is integral to company culture. A few ways to do that are by creating communication boards for each team that have employee recognition, safety records and helpful announcements that could impact them. Team collaboration thrives with goal-tracking signage and performance visuals to motivate them. Inspirational banners, graphics and murals that highlight the company’s mission, values or quotes can create both a professional and positive work environment.
Incorporating vibrant graphics an excite and energize your staff
Transform Warehousing Chaos into Order
Complexity is a natural part of every warehouse, and the environment you create is directly tied to the impact of the performance within it. With the help of custom signs and graphics, you can more effectively bring order to truly complex spaces.
Wayfinding, productivity and safety can only be solved by working strategically, and your first step is to find a partner who can think both strategically and visually. FASTSIGNS specializes in these exact types of solutions that your business needs.
Ready for a facility transformation built on efficiency and safety? Call FASTSIGNS today, and our experts will explore the most direct path to an ideal warehouse environment.