Archive for January 2026

You walk the aisles during your daily operations. Everything’s running. Forklifts are moving. Pallets are loaded. The system looks fine from the main corridor. Then something catches your eye. That column everyone drives past looks bent. You notice beam connections missing safety clips. An anchor bolt appears stripped. This is when most facility managers ask:…

You may have heard the term used before and been confused, but “Utilization Ratio” isn’t a complicated concept. Although it’s a structural engineering term, it also applies to the material handling industry and pallet racks. Whether you’re looking at utilization ratio in steel design or utilization ratio in structural design applications, the concept remains the…