BHS, Inc., a leading manufacturer of custom material handling equipment based in St. Louis, MO, has announced a new line of attachments for order picker trucks. Designed with modular components, these attachments allow for task-based optimization, addressing the growing reliance on order picker trucks in narrow-aisle racking environments. The initial launch includes four product series: Modular Order Picker Carts, Modular Order Picker Platforms, Order Picker Furniture Carts, and Order Picker Furniture Platforms.
Modular Order Picker Carts are equipped with heavy-duty casters, enabling them to double as pushcarts for ground-level inventory management. In contrast, Modular Order Picker Platforms omit casters, functioning solely as attachments for order picker trucks. The Furniture variants are sized to fit the longer forks of furniture order picker trucks, providing tailored solutions for specific industry needs.
Trent Boothe, Technical Sales Manager at BHS, highlighted the importance of these innovations: "With the growth in narrow-aisle racking, more warehouses are relying on order picker trucks. Our goal is to make those trucks safer, more productive, and flexible enough to handle anything."
A key safety feature of these BHS solutions is their custom sizing, which eliminates gaps or offsets between the platform and the truck's operator deck. This design innovation reduces tripping hazards, a risk sometimes associated with order picker truck attachments.
The modularity of the BHS attachments offers significant advantages. Users can adjust shelf spacing, remove shelves entirely, or add rails and guarding to create an ideal work platform. These bolt-on components are easy to attach or remove with standard workplace tools, allowing the carts and platforms to function like custom equipment without the typical delays of made-to-order solutions.
"We specialize in designing custom equipment, but it takes time to design something from scratch," Boothe explained. "Our modular solutions ship a lot faster than an all-original product. They give you custom performance without custom lead times."
Modular Order Picker Carts and Platforms are available now exclusively from BHS, Inc. For more information, visit https://www.bhs1.com.
