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Types of Equipment
The range of storage equipment available to business is vast and growing every year. Generally speaking, the various types of equipment remain uniform - while various styles, accessories and modifications are introduced to increase efficiency, strength, and reduce cost.
Standard File Cabinet - Vertical
- Victoria file cabinet 2 - 5 drawers
- used for?
- different grades of cabinets
Lateral File Cabinet
- saves some space 2 - 5 drawers
- varying qualities
- more aesthetic
- can be specially designed as mixed media unit
- fixed construction
- flexible construction
Open Shelf Design
- 2 - 6 in cabinet format
- 5 - 8 in open shelf format or more
- box on rail
- metal or wood shelving
- 50% space savings
- 25% time savings
Mobile
- manual
- mechanical assist
- electric
- safety
- lighting
- ease of use
- side to side
- movable aisle
- times two (2)
- take existing and put on carriages
- or specially designed
- in floor
- on floor
- cautions
- floor loading
- limiting access
- quality of product and installation
Mechanical Systems
- commonly called POWER files
- vertical space
- big misnomer on space savings
- very expensive
- special space constraints (height)
- no walk systems
Carts
- long distance transportation
- short distance transportation
Magnetic Media
- diskettes
- disk packs
- mag tapes
- cartridges
Microfilms
- box
- fiche
- vertical
- lateral
- carousal
Plans
- flat filing
- hanging filing
- roll filing
Cards
- drawers
- boxes
- trays
- rolodex
- wheel
- strip
Electronic assist
- CAR (Computer Aided Retrieval)
Workflow
- work station considerations as well
Space Planning
is the coordination of physical components within the available floor space to provide maximum efficiency in the most attractive arrangement
Objectives:
- comfort of staff
- maintain efficient flow of work
- facilitate supervision
- locate furniture and equipment
- provide for future needs
Two techniques are prevalent:
- symmetrical technical approach
- flexible personnel
Symmetrical technical approach:
- efficiency
- work
- cost expenditures are emphasized
- stresses function of equipment
- based on symmetry and uniformity
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