Vertical Lift Storage for Spares: Adams Morey

Vertical Lift Storage for Parts Departments: Adams Morey

Adams Morey, a premier DAF and commercial vehicle maintenance company in the Southwest, faced a significant challenge when relocating to their new Bridgwater site. To support their expanding operations, they needed to maximise the number of service bays for vehicle repairs while ensuring all other departments ran at tip-top performance – including their critical parts department. Adams Morey turned to Industore for a comprehensive design and solution to futureproof their new facility, maximise the number of service bays available, and provide true transformation.

The new stores demanded an innovative approach to space management. With a diverse inventory ranging from tiny bolts (just a few centimetres in size) to bulky air filters and whole van panels, Adams Morey’s traditional shelving system at their former facility was overflowing, limiting storage capacity and creating inefficiencies. To make room for the required nine-bays within the new workshop, the parts department footprint had to be reduced – while improving functionality, efficiency, and storage capacity.

Mick Dean, Parts Manager at Adams Morey Bridgwater:

“We knew Lean-Lifts were reliable, because our earliest two are still operating, some twenty-years later, but we wanted Industore because we were looking for more than vertical lift storage. We needed the whole facility designed to ensure we could really make it work with the nine-bay option. That means the parts department had to be “as big as needed, but as small as possible” – if that makes sense, and we really knew that only Industore who could do that for us.

Industore designed the entire storage department, from the vertical lift storage through to the mezzanine and racking – everything. Industore’s sister company, Powell, also offers interior design and fit-outs, so they were even able to design the new offices, boardrooms, reception areas, kitchens, facilities, and more for us – even down to specifying and supplying the furniture to fit in these spaces. The whole process was handled on our behalf by Industore, cradle to grave, which is exactly what we needed for this project.”

Example: Closed door operation (for added safety) or by returning trays to the same storage location, and removing items only, rather than replenishing or adding new items to shelves. This minimises downtime and ensures critical parts remain accessible while waiting for the local Industore engineer to attend the site.

To enhance security, the Lean-Lifts feature manual, lockable sliding doors, allowing the machines to be secured when not in use, along with access code management, ensuring items can only be retrieved by those with the appropriate permissions. In addition, the light curtain barrier provides maximum safety during operation, ensuring the protection of both operators and stored items. Where items are of a particularly sensitive nature, individual shelves have been programmed to move at a slower speed than the bulk of the shelves, ensuring maximum safety for very fragile items, without slowing down the general operation.

Using CAD plans, Industore was able to clearly demonstrate what success would look like. A detailed layout that included traditional racking for low-value, slow-moving parts, and a mezzanine level for larger, less frequently accessed inventory like body panels was developed, aiding understanding. This holistic approach ensured the entire parts department was optimised for workflow and efficiency, but also ensured that all parties knew what the end-product would work and how it would look.