Today's factories, logistics, large supermarkets, etc. use forklifts when handling or stacking goods. So what exactly is a forklift? Forklifts are industrial vehicles used to load, unload, stack, transport short distances, and transport heavy items. Forklift is a loading and unloading machine that can effectively combine horizontal transportation and vertical lifting. It has comprehensive functions such as loading, unloading, lifting, and transportation. It has the advantages of high efficiency, convenient operation and flexibility, and flexibility. It is also very versatile. In addition, the forklift can bring many economic benefits to the enterprise!

First, the use of forklifts

Forklifts are highly standardized and versatile. They are widely used in factories, mines, warehouses, stations, ports, airports, freight yards, distribution centers, and distribution centers. Containers and containers are essential equipment for loading and unloading, stacking, destacking, and short-distance transportation.

The main work attachment of a forklift is a fork. After changing other work attachments, it can also be used for loading and unloading bulk cargo, non-packaging cargo, long and large cargo, and short-distance handling operations. Forklifts have a wide range of uses. They are not only widely used in various departments of road transportation, rail transportation, water transportation, but also in materials storage and transportation, postal, and military departments.

Forklifts play a very important role in the company's logistics system and are the main force in material handling equipment. Widely used in various sectors of the national economy such as stations, ports, airports, factories, warehouses. Forklifts developed during World War II. China has been manufacturing forklifts since the early 1950s. Especially with the rapid development of the Chinese economy, the material handling of most companies has been separated from the original manual handling, and replaced by mechanized handling based on forklifts. Therefore, in the past a long period of time, the demand for the Chinese forklift market has increased at a double-digit rate every year.

Second, the benefits that forklifts can bring to enterprises

1. Improve material operation efficiency, reduce personnel labor intensity, improve labor conditions; save labor and increase labor productivity, according to foreign economic analysis of the use of forklifts. A forklift can replace the manual labor of 8 to 15 loaders. During the operation of the forklift, the operation of loading, unloading, stacking, and handling of goods can be mechanized by relying only on the driver's operation, without the auxiliary labor of the loading and unloading workers. This not only ensures the safe production of the enterprise, but also greatly reduces the labor consumption The labor intensity is also greatly reduced, so that the operation efficiency is greatly improved, and the economic benefits are very significant.

2. Shorten the operating time and speed up the turnover of materials, thereby speeding up the utilization rate of cars and ships and improving production efficiency.

3. Make full use of space. Save the warehouse area. With forklift operation, the cargo pile is higher, which can reach more than 10m at present, and the warehouse gear ratio can be increased several times.

4. Use pallets and containers to hold the goods, simplify the packaging of the goods, save the use of packaging, reduce the loading and unloading costs, improve the operating efficiency and the safety of the goods.

5. The use of forklift operation can relieve heavy physical labor, reduce cargo damage and personnel injury accidents, and improve the safety of operations.

6. Forklift operation can reduce cargo damage, improve the safety of operation, and achieve safe loading and unloading.

7. Compared with large-scale loading and unloading machinery operations, forklift operations have the advantages of low cost and low investment.

Therefore, forklift trucks should be preferred in logistics loading and unloading operations. Forklift trucks play a very, very important role in the industrial logistics system. It can be said that if there is no forklift trucks, express delivery, logistics, warehousing, factories will even be paralyzed. As labor costs continue to rise, replacing machinery with machinery is a historical necessity.