Point-of-Use Dispensing

Used extensively in manufacturing applications and in maintenance and repair operations (MRO).

To eliminate wasted walk and search time to a central storage location and to eliminate labor due to manually operated cribs and storage areas. Items which are used often such as tools and consumables are the most popular types of items to use point-of-use dispensing devices.

Point-of-use dispensing systems can vary greatly depending on the level of access you wish to have on a group of items and the number of items and frequency of their use will allow.

Levels of access can vary from open access to restricted access to controlled access. The difference is the level control a facility wishes to have on the use and consumption of the items. Open access means you want anyone who needs an item to take it is often seen as a container of safety glasses available to people as they walk into an area. Controlled access means you manage and monitor the use of all items. Restricted access means that you set up physical barriers and make it impossible for a user to take anything else besides their assigned part.

The major issue of any point-of-use device is floor space consumption and productivity. Drawer systems can be equipped with restricted access controls, but the drawers’ physical limitations (under 4 feet) wastes the entire vertical cube or space above the unit.

The Sentinel Controlled Access system provides up to 75% floor space savings by using vertical cube to the physical ceiling while providing point of use access.

Sentinel Controlled Access System | Shuttle VLM | Vertical Carousel 
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