Warehouse Door Maintenance
Keep your supply chain operations efficient and secure with optimized warehouse door assets.
Warehouse Door Maintenance, Repair and Installation
The doors of your warehouse or distribution center are vital links between your facility and the rest of the supply chain. These doors should be correctly chosen, professionally installed and actively maintained to keep efficiency high and reduce incidences of avoidable accidents.
It’s unfortunately common for buildings to not have adequate equipment, including industrial door systems, in place. This happens especially often when facilities were initially constructed for purposes such as retail and converted for warehouse use later in their life spans.
By inspecting your current warehouse door assets and determining which warehouse door maintenance, installation and repair options are right for your organization, you can work with MINER® to create an ideal environment for your workers, optimizing logistics efficiency and safety.
Why Warehouse Door Maintenance Matters
Your warehouse door systems are important for creating a positive employee work environment and keeping your supply chain operations moving at full speed.
Avoidable dock equipment failures may harm your employees severely. Even a single incident involving a commercial door can be very dangerous, considering the size of these assets. Correctly functioning doors are also necessary to segregate foot and vehicle traffic, minimizing the chance of collisions. A door worn from age, use or neglect can pose an added risk in this sense, meaning inspections, proactive maintenance and repair are essential considerations.
Even in cases when no one is hurt, downtime still stops your company from moving at full speed. Goods may be stuck in trucks or the facility due to a loading dock door failure. In cases where you must maintain a strict cold chain, this may even result in spoilage and FSMA compliance issues. Furthermore, ineffective doors that let temperature-controlled air escape are a liability for energy efficiency, forcing your air conditioning systems to work harder.
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Common Warehouse Door Needs
Your organization may encounter several issues around its warehouse doors. Finding answers for these scenarios is essential for safe, efficient operations up and down the supply chain.
These include:
Replacement of Unsuitable Assets: Upon inspecting your warehouse doors, you may discover that current assets can’t match your organization’s needs regarding scale or durability. Your warehouse may also lack the automatic door opening mechanisms that can enable efficient loading dock operations. Working with an expert facility partner to select and install more suitable replacements can be essential.
Maintenance to Counteract Age and Wear: Without a data-driven warehouse door maintenance program, it can be hard to keep track of which doors have gone through the most cycles and are in greatest need of upkeep. Proactive maintenance powered by up-to-date data can compensate for these information deficiencies.
Emergency Repair Service on Demand: Even the best maintenance program can’t prevent 100% of door failures. Your facility needs to have a reliable commercial door repair service provider available to assist when unexpected breakdowns occur, getting your loading dock moving again.
Types of Warehouse Doors We Service
Warehouse door systems encompass a number of different assets throughout a facility. Each of these deserves careful consideration and serves a unique purpose. The following are three of the most prominent categories of door to consider when assessing your current equipment’s suitability and pondering upgrades.
Loading Dock Door
The loading dock plays a critical supply chain role, which means your doors for this area must deliver maximum reliability and minimal downtime. A single loading dock door breakdown could wipe out hours of productivity, costing your organization many thousands of dollars.
Loading dock doors should be paired with systems such as loading dock seals and loading dock shelters to prevent workers from being exposed to the elements during loading and unloading, and to ensure temperature control systems are functioning at full efficiency. The loading dock is also a frequently overlooked area of security risk, so your loading dock door systems should deliver effective access control against intruders, while forming a reliable seal against animal pests.
High-speed Doors
High-speed doors divide areas in your facility to keep contaminants and temperature-controlled air from moving between rooms and to keep unauthorized personnel out of restricted zones. To prevent them from impeding productivity, these doors open quickly — some models take less than a second to cycle.
Options for your high-speed doors include the number and size of transparent panels used. More and larger windows can help improve safety awareness, as personnel will be able to see who and what is on the other side of the door before passing through.
Overhead Door
These sectional doors, which resemble commercial versions of a standard garage door, are ideal connectors between your facility and the outside world. They are available in various sizes and gauges of steel, and you can select an opening style that suits the physical layout of your space: rolling doors on a curved track for lower ceilings or commercial garage doors that open straight up and down in taller facilities.
Your overhead doors play an important role in your warehouse’s presentation and appearance. To make your building look professional, you can select a color of paneling for your metal doors that aligns with your branding. Other important options for overhead doors include your choice of opening mechanism. Doors that will have to open often can be equipped with automatic door openers, while a centralized control panel can give personnel an overview of all entrances.
Other Door Options
Freezer and cooler doors to maintain the cold chain and help comply with Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) cold storage requirements.
Fire door systems that prevent the spread of fire through a building — these assets are important for safety awareness programs and can help your facility pass inspections.
Impact doors, also known as swing doors, that are designed to remain sealed when suffering a serious impact from a powered vehicle such as a forklift.
Why Choose MINER for Warehouse Door Service?
Considering warehouse doors’ important role in both safety awareness and efficiency optimization, it pays to have the right facility partner on your side when setting up and maintaining your equipment. MINER can provide support tailored to your needs, at any or all steps from initial asset selection to long-term maintenance and total cost of ownership optimization.
Warehouse Door Services Provided by MINER
Every step of the equipment life cycle, from selecting suitable doors to maintaining them over time, is best accomplished with the help of an experienced national service provider like MINER.
Purchase and Installation
When selecting a warehouse door asset for any area of your facility, you should have access to equipment from top manufacturers and the input of expert consultants who understand your business. MINER delivers on both counts, through relationships with the best vendors nationwide and an experienced staff ready to help.
After assisting with your purchase, MINER can also help install the assets. Commercial door installation carried out by trained technicians ensures that your doors are ideally set up to keep functioning effectively for millions of cycles in the years to come.
Proactive Maintenance
An ideal proactive maintenance strategy, created in partnership with MINER, is designed around frequently updated inspections that take the suitability, age and wear of every asset into account. Through attentive, strategic care that doesn’t wait for assets to fail, you can optimize the usable life span and total cost of ownership.
Managing accurate data allows technicians to spend their time repairing the assets that are most likely to fail. This ensures their efforts have the greatest possible impact, lessening the risk of unexpected downtime as far as possible.
Emergency Warehouse Door REpair
When a warehouse door does fail, you need to restore service on a short timeline. While proactive maintenance is intended to minimize avoidable failures, sometimes emergency repair services are necessary.
MINER’s SafeACT proactive maintenance program can provide this type of assistance as well, dispatching trained technicians who carry essential tools and materials with them and can get your facility moving again following downtime.
If you haven’t yet checked your current warehouse door solutions for their suitability for purpose, age and level of wear, this is an important step in taking action to improve this equipment.
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AT A GLANCE: FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
What types of doors are used in warehouses?
What are the types of rolling warehouse doors?
What sizes of warehouse doors are available?
Original equipment manufacturers offer customizable sizes of doors, so you can select equipment that works for your facility. Depending on the type of door, the scale of the building and the needed space for opening mechanisms, maximum sizes differ. Sectional steel doors can reach a height and width of 24 feet by 32 feet, while rolling or coiling doors can be up to 40 feet by 60 feet.
Get a Quote for Warehouse Door Maintenance
The status of your warehouse doors can affect the overall effectiveness of your warehouse or distribution center. To see what MINER can accomplish for your commercial doors and other loading dock equipment as your national service partner, request a quote today.