This article has been supplied.Airports and cold-chain operations are built around a critical component: uptime.
From refrigerated warehouses and distribution centres to food retail and pharmaceutical logistics, every minute of operational disruption can translate into product spoilage, missed delivery deadlines and increased costs.
Airports, too, require continuous equipment uptime. This is because airports operate 24/7 and a failure in systems such as baggage handling can lead to delayed flights, frustrated customers and, ultimately, revenue loss adding up to billions globally.
Alexander Campbell, Area Sales Consultant at Industrial Power, a division of CFAO Equipment, says one of the key operational disruptions faced in cold-chain and airport productivity is battery downtime.
“Forklifts, pallet movers and other electric material-handling equipment are critical to modern cold-chain logistics, as are baggage handling tow tractors and electric pallet jacks to airports. This means poor charging disciplines, ageing batteries and limited visibility into battery performance can result in operational bottlenecks that directly impact efficiency and – for cold chain environments – product integrity.”
